Holocaust

Holocaust; systematic killing of Jews

1. •HOW ABOUT GERMANY AND THE HOW ABOUT GERMANY AND THE
REBUILDING OF EUROPE?REBUILDING OF EUROPE?
But wait…But wait…
We forgot one We forgot one Last EventLast Event in WWII! in WWII!

3. Hitler’s Dream of a
Perfect Empire

6. PRELUDE
•IN 1939, GERMANY
INVADED POLAND
WHICH HAD A MUCH
LARGER
POPULATION OF 3
MILLION JEWS.
•IN 1941, GERMANY
INVADED RUSSIA
WHICH HAD A
POPULATION OF 5
MILLION JEWS.

7. NUREMBERG
LAWS
•STRIPPED JEWS OF
CITIZENSHIPS,
JOBS AND
PROPERTY
•JEWS WERE MADE
TO WEAR YELLOW
STAR OF DAVID TO
EASILY IDENTIFY
THEM

8. KRISTALLNACH
T (1938)
"Night of Broken Glass."
wave of violent anti-
Jewish attack which took
place on 1938 by German
troops.
Instigated primarily by Nazi Party officials
and members of the SA (Sturmabteilungen:
literally Assault Detachments, but
commonly known as Storm Troopers)
—broken glass from the
windows of synagogues,
homes, and Jewish-owned
businesses plundered and
destroyed during the
violence.
At least 91 Jews were killed in the attacks,
30,000 were arrested and incarcerated
in concentration camps
Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were
ransacked
demolished buildings with sledgehammers
Over 1,000 synagogues were burnedand over
7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or
damaged

9. SCAPEGOAT
•INDIVIDUAL, GROUP OR COUNTRY SINGLE OUT
FOR NEGATIVE TREATMENT OR BLAME

10. SCAPEGOAT
•INDIVIDUAL, GROUP OR COUNTRY
SINGLE OUT FOR NEGATIVE
TREATMENT OR BLAME
•ANTI- SEMITISM = HATRED FOR ANTI- SEMITISM = HATRED FOR
JEWS.JEWS.

12. •SECURITY SQUADRONSECURITY SQUADRON = HITLER’S ELITE = HITLER’S ELITE
(SS), WAS CHARGED WITH ROUNDING UP (SS), WAS CHARGED WITH ROUNDING UP
JEWS.JEWS.

13. 1933
WW2 StartsWW2 Starts
19411941
= GermanyGermany
= = AustriaAustria

14. Ghettos-
segregated
areas for Jews
Children Dying of Children Dying of
Starvation in the Starvation in the
Warsaw GhettoWarsaw Ghetto

15. Groups were divided into
two:

16. CONCENTRATION CAMPSCONCENTRATION CAMPS
•= NAZI LABOR CAMPS (UNDESIRABLES).= NAZI LABOR CAMPS (UNDESIRABLES).

17. CONCENTRATION CAMPSCONCENTRATION CAMPS
•= NAZI LABOR CAMPS (UNDESIRABLES).= NAZI LABOR CAMPS (UNDESIRABLES).

18. DESTRUCTION THROUGH WORKDESTRUCTION THROUGH WORK
This photo was taken by the Nazis to show just how
you could quite literally work the fat of the Jews by
feeding them 200 calories a day

19. The unfit, old and sick goes to death camp

20. HITLER’S “HITLER’S “FINAL FINAL
SOLUTIONSOLUTION””
•GENOCIDEGENOCIDE = THE = THE
DELIBERATE AND DELIBERATE AND
SYSTEMATIC SYSTEMATIC
KILLING OF AN KILLING OF AN
ENTIRE POPULATIONENTIRE POPULATION
•COMMUNISTS, SOCIALISTS,
LIBERALISTS, ETC.
•JEWS, GYPSIES, FREEMASONS, AND
JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES, ETC.
•HOMOSEXUALS, THE MENTALLY
DEFICIENT, MENTALLY ILL,
PHYSICALLY DISABLED, INCURABLE
ILL, ETC.

21. THE FINAL STAGETHE FINAL STAGE
•OVERWORK, STARVATION, BEATINGS, AND BULLETS WERE DEADLY, BUT THEY OVERWORK, STARVATION, BEATINGS, AND BULLETS WERE DEADLY, BUT THEY
DID NOT KILL FAST ENOUGHDID NOT KILL FAST ENOUGH……
•MASS EXTERMINATION
•(6) DEATH CAMPS WERE BUILT IN POLAND ~ WERE 12,000 PEOPLE COULD BE (6) DEATH CAMPS WERE BUILT IN POLAND ~ WERE 12,000 PEOPLE COULD BE
KILLED IN A DAY.KILLED IN A DAY.

22. EXPERIMENT
S
•HITLER’S
ATTEMPT TO
BUILD A
PERFECT HUMAN
RACE AND THE
STRONGEST
ARMY POSSIBLE

24. THESE TERRORS
OCCURRED IN BLOCK 10
OF AUSCHWITZ I. JOSEF
MENGELE WAS
NICKNAMED "THE ANGEL
OF DEATH" FOR THE
INHUMAN EXPERIMENTS
HE CONDUCTED.
•SOME WERE EXPERIMENT UPON

25. •A WAR CRIMES INVESTIGATION PHOTO OF THE DISFIGURED LEG OF A SURVIVOR
FROM RAVENSBRUECK, POLISH POLITICAL PRISONER HELENA HEGIER (RAFALSKA),
WHO WAS SUBJECTED TO MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS IN 1942. THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS
ENTERED AS EVIDENCE FOR THE PROSECUTION AT THE MEDICAL TRIAL IN
NUREMBERG. THE DISFIGURING SCARS RESULTED FROM INCISIONS MADE BY
MEDICAL PERSONNEL THAT WERE PURPOSELY INFECTED WITH BACTERIA, DIRT,
AND SLIVERS OF GLASS.

27. New Arrivals
‘Destruction
Through
Work’
‘Showers’
•Auschwitz, PolandAuschwitz, Poland
–Largest death camp ( gas chambers)Largest death camp ( gas chambers)

28. Notice how it has been built to resemble a railway
station
•Auschwitz, PolandAuschwitz, Poland
–Largest death camp ( gas chambers)Largest death camp ( gas chambers)

29. AUSCHWITZ
FROM THE
AIR
Notice how the Death
camp is set out like a
factory complex
The Nazis used
industrial methods
to murder the Jews
and process their
dead bodies
•Auschwitz, PolandAuschwitz, Poland
–Largest death camp ( gas chambers)Largest death camp ( gas chambers)

30. Part of a stockpile of Zyklon-B
poison gas pellets found at Majdanek
death camp.
Before poison gas was used ,
Jews were gassed in mobile
gas vans. Carbon monoxide
gas from the engine’s exhaust
was fed ino the sealed rear
compartment. Victims were
dead by the time they reached
the burial site.

31. THE GAS CHAMBERSTHE GAS CHAMBERS
•THE NAZIS WOULD
FORCE LARGE
GROUPS OF
PRISONERS INTO
SMALL CEMENT
ROOMS AND DROP
CANISTERS OF
ZYKLON B, OR
PRUSSIC ACID, IN ITS
CRYSTAL FORM
THROUGH SMALL
HOLES IN THE ROOF.
•THESE GAS
CHAMBERS WERE
SOMETIMES
DISGUISED AS
SHOWERS OR
BATHING HOUSES.
The SS would try and pack up to 2000 people into this gas
chamber

32. THE OUTSIDE OF THE GAS
CHAMBER
Notice the Ovens easy located near the Gas Chambers

33. Smoke rises as the
bodies are burnt.

34. GAS CHAMBERS

35. PROCESSING THE BODIES
•SPECIALLY SELECTED
JEWS KNOWN AS THE
SONDERKOMMANDO
WERE USED TO TO
REMOVE THE GOLD
FILLINGS AND HAIR OF
PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN
GASSED.
•THE
SONDERKOMMANDO
JEWS WERE ALSO
FORCED TO FEED THE
DEAD BODIES INTO THE
CREMATORIUM.

36. THE OVENS AT DACHAU

37. THE HOLOCAUSTTHE HOLOCAUST
• THE SYSTEMATIC MURDER OF 11 MILLION THE SYSTEMATIC MURDER OF 11 MILLION
PEOPLE ACROSS EUROPE, ½ BEING JEWS.PEOPLE ACROSS EUROPE, ½ BEING JEWS.

38. THE HOLOCAUSTTHE HOLOCAUST
• THE SYSTEMATIC THE SYSTEMATIC
MURDER OF 11 MILLION MURDER OF 11 MILLION
PEOPLE ACROSS PEOPLE ACROSS
EUROPE, ½ BEING JEWS.EUROPE, ½ BEING JEWS.

43. After liberation, an Allied
soldier displays a stash of
gold wedding rings taken
from victims at
Buchenwald.
Bales of hair shaven
from women at
Auschwitz, used to
make felt-yarn.

45. A German girl is overcome as she walks past the exhumed
bodies of some of the 800 slave workers murdered by the SS
guards near Namering, Germany, and laid here so that
townspeople may view the work of their Nazi leaders.

48. German civilians under U.S. military escort are forced to see
a wagon loaded with corpses in Buchenwald.

51. SURVIVORSSURVIVORS??

55. Poland, 24%

57. NUREMBERG TRIALSNUREMBERG TRIALS
= = ALLIES PUT (24) ALLIES PUT (24)
NAZI LEADERS ON NAZI LEADERS ON
TRIAL FOR WAR TRIAL FOR WAR
CRIMES. CRIMES.
•12 – EXECUTED, 12 – JAIL, IN
LATER TRIALS 200 MORE WERE
FOUND GUILTY.

58. JAPAN OCCUPATION
•UNDER THE
COMMAND OF GEN.
DOUGLAS
MACARTHUR
•7 YEARS
•INTRODUCED
FREE-MARKET
•TRANSFORMED
GOVERNMENT

59. INTERNMENT CAMP
•CONFINEMENT
OF JAPANESE
AMERICAN
DURING WWII
•RELOCATION
CAMP
•NECESSARY FOR
NATIONAL
SECURITY

60. •CONFINEMENT
OF JAPANESE
AMERICAN
DURING WWII
•RELOCATION
CAMP
•NECESSARY
FOR NATIONAL
SECURITY

62. THE BIG THREE
•US- TRUMAN
•BRITAIN- CHURCHILL
•SOVIET- STALIN

63. THE UNITED NATIONSTHE UNITED NATIONS
•NEW WORLD PEACE NEW WORLD PEACE
ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATION
(50 COUNTRIES- TODAY 193)
•HEADQUARTERS: NEW HEADQUARTERS: NEW
YORKYORK

64. •GENERAL ASSEMBLY-
DEBATE ISSUES AND
RECOMMEND ACTIONS
•SECURITY COUNCIL-
MILITARY ACTION AND
SETTLE DISPUTES
•EACH MEMBER HAS ONE
VOTE, ALL HAVE TO AGREE
ON ACTION
•PERMANENT MEMBERS (US,
BRITAIN, SOVIET, FRANCE,
CHINA)
•WORLD COURT OF JUSTICE
•CRIME AGAINST PEACE
•CRIME AGAINST
HUMANITY
•ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
COUNCIL: UNICEF,
UNESCO, WHO