The Holocaust

Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Finish Test (15)• Debate: The true beginning of World War II

(30)• The Holocaust through interviews (25)• Hollywood and the Holocaust (5)• Image Analysis of the Holocaust (10)• If we have time: Steps towards a Genocide

Hitler and the Jews• He had an animosity for

the Jewish people since World War I.

• Utilized Jews as scapegoats for everything, from the loss of war, to hyperinflation and depression.

• As dictator, he would spread propaganda to brainwash the German people.

Nuremburg Laws• 1935, all Jews barred from

Civil Service, those positions going to Aryans.

• Jews are no longer German citizens

• They cannot associate with Aryans.

• Later, required to wear the Star of David.

• German diplomat murdered in 1938, led to the “night of broken glass”

The move to the ghetto• By the late 1930s, after the

“night of broken glass”, Jews were moved into ghettos. “Kristallnacht”

• Equivalent to tenements, they were forced to leave their homes and possessions for confiscation by the Nazi’s

• Now they crowded into rooms that held up to 16 people when it should only hold two or three.

Warsaw • Most famous ghetto• Bricked off from the rest

of the city, for Jews it was like a prison.

• In reality it was a holding camp, for the extermination that was to follow in a few years.

• Food riots were quickly quelled by Nazi secret police forces.

Final Solution

• The systematic killing of Jews.

• Einsatzgruppen utilized as mass killing squads.

• Others rounded up and taken to Concentration Camps. – Beaten and killed when

they did not work hard enough at the camps.

The Camps: Day 2

Agenda

• Bell Ringer: What is Kristallnacht? How does it lead to the Holocaust?

• Lecture Notes: Concentration Camps (20)• Life in a Concentration Camp Primary Analysis

(15)• Photo Analysis: From the Camps (10)• Quick Video: The Camps (25)• Outline Information (15)

The Use of the Camps

• Initially used as work camps, companies such as IG Farben would use prisoners to work.

• By 1942 gas chambers were created, and death camps were common.

• Auschwitz is the most notorious.

• 90% of Jewish population in Poland killed.

Final Extermination• Two lines, one to take a

“shower” and the other to be numbered and put into the camp

• The Jewish prisoners would remove all clothing, heads were shaved, and any valuables were taken (including fillings from teeth).

• Then they were sent to work until they died from starvation or abuse from the guards.

After the War• London, many cities in

Germany, and parts of the Soviet Union lay in ruins.

• Conferences were held in Yalta and Potsdam to discuss how countries would recover after the war, and the division of lands held by Germany.

• United Nations was formed, with permanent members controlling a peacekeeping force.

Nuremberg and Occupation• Germans were held liable for

the atrocities of the Holocaust.

• 22 leaders charged with crimes against humanity.

• Hermann Goring kills himself after being sentenced to execution, along with 11 others.

• Similar trials occur in Japan as MacArthur restructures the government into Democracy.

Japanese Internment Camps

• After Pearl Harbor, there was animosity and distrust with Japanese-Americans.

• 66% were American citizens, but they were forced into “internment camps” for the duration of the war.

• 31,000 detained simply because of their race… sound familiar?