Introduction to The Holocaust

Steps to Genocide1933 to 1945

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holocaust (noun):Greek word meaning “sacrifice by fire”

genocide (noun):The crime of destroying a group of people because of their ethnic, national, racial, or

religious identity

Nazi target groups:Ethnicities: Jews & Gypsies (Roma), Nationalities: Slavs (Poles & Russians)“Degenerates”: the mentally & physically disabledPolitical rivals: communists & socialistsReligions: JewsAsocials: Anybody else who opposed the Nazis

Genocide was NOT the first step!

Concentration Camp:Upon their ascent to power on January 30,

1933, the Nazis established concentration camps for the imprisonment of all “enemies” of their regime. Sentences could be a few months or a few years.

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What life was life for the Jewish population at the START of the war

1934----Hitler comes to power CHANCLLOR

1939: Night of broken glass: all JEW shops are vandalized

1934: Hitler uses Munich Olympics as PROPAGANDA

WINTER 1939: Branding through star of David

anti-semitism (noun):

hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group

You cannot live among us as Jews.

The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living

shape of the Jew”~Adolf Hitler

Hitler’s minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels, links love of Germany with hatred of the Jews

You cannot live among us as Jews.

Aryan race:The Nazis believed that people of Northern

European ancestry – especially those with blue eyes and blonde hair – were superior to all other people, including people of African, Asian, and Middle-Eastern ancestry.

You cannot live among us as Jews.

You cannot live among us as Jews.

Germans were suspicious of Jews who were seen as conspiring (with the help of communists) to take over the world.

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Write HOW the JEWS WERE ROUNDED UP?

So Why didn’t the JEWS just leave Germany??

SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS .Many Jews attempted to leave Germany. But many nations, including Great Britain, Canada & the United States limited Jewish immigration

11 million people were exterminated

They were shot, starved, gassed and burned…

The HolocaustEXAMPLE OF

GENOCIDE: the systematic extermination of a nationality or group

Cold Hard Facts

Casualties of the Holocaust: 63% of Jewish population in Europe killed

91% of Jewish population in Poland killed

Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by Soviet troops on Jan. 27, 1945. The Soviets found 836, 255 women’s dresses, 348, 000 men’s suits, 38, 000 pairs of men’s shoes and 14, 000 pounds of human hair. But only

7, 650 live prisoners