The Holocaust

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I can analyze the restriction of individual rights and mass terror against individuals, can make comparisons to similar events throughout history, and can assess the causes, events, and effects of the Holocaust.

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I can describe and analyze the restriction of individual rights and mass terror against populations, and can assess the causes, events, and effects of the Holocaust.

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 I can somewhat describe the restriction of individual rights and mass terror against populations, and can describe some of the causes, events and effects of the Holocaust.

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“Today I will once more be a prophet: if the international Jewish financiers in and outside

Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the

result will not be the Bolshevizing of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!"

Hitler intended to blame the Jews for the new world war he was soon to provoke.

Hitler repeatedly blamed the Jews for Germany's defeat in World War I and

economic hardships.

Boycott of Jewish shops.

Nuremburg Laws

•Took German citizenship away from Germany Jews

•Forbade intermarriage with non-Jews

•Removed from schools, banned from the professions, excluded from military service, and were even forbidden to share a park bench with a non-Jew.

The Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht) November 9/10 1938

Many German and Austrian Jews now attempted to flee Hitler's Reich

“The ship nobody wanted” S.S. St. LouisIn the end,181 would go to Holland, 224 to

France, 228 to Great Britain, and 214 to Belgium.

Jews were rounded up and forced into newly established ghettos.

“The Final Solution”

• The decision and plans to eradicate (kill/get rid of) Europe's Jewish population was finalized in 1942

• Nazi Germany’s genocide (mass killing) of Jews was foretold in one of Hitler’s speeches in 1939

Concentration/Death Camps

• 1940 building of a concentration camp Auschwitz

• In the ghettos of Poland, Jews were simply told they were being "transferred" to work camps.

• Nazis often charged Jews for their train tickets to the concentration and death camps

Going to the Concentration Camps

• They were then stuffed into unheated, poorly ventilated boxcars with no water or sanitation.

• The Gestapo made new arrivals in the death

camps sign picture postcards showing the fictional location which were sent to relatives back home with the printed greeting: "We are doing very well here. We have work and we are well treated. We await your arrival."

• Young adults considered fit for slave labor were allowed to live and had an ID number tattooed on their left forearm. Everyone else went to the gas chambers.

Crematory ovens at Majdanek with piles of human ashes still in front, as seen after liberation.

A mass shooting somewhere inside occupied Russia.

• At Auschwitz, the highest-ever daily number of persons killed and cremated was just over 9000.

• Six huge open pits were used to burn the bodies, as the number of dead exceeded the capacity of the crematories.

Measure Your UnderSTAnding

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I can analyze the restriction of individual rights and mass terror against individuals, can make comparisons to similar events throughout history, and can assess the causes, events, and effects of the Holocaust.

3

I can describe and analyze the restriction of individual rights and mass terror against populations, and can assess the causes, events, and effects of the Holocaust.

2

 I can somewhat describe the restriction of individual rights and mass terror against populations, and can describe some of the causes, events and effects of the Holocaust.

1  I know some details about the Holocaust, but can’t give any specifics.

0 IDK … Halp Meh!