Transcript 14-2 Part 2 - Cloudfront.net

Friday March 7, 2014
• Take your seat
• Begin Warm-Up
Warm-Up
Have you ever been discriminated against
because of the color of your skin, your religion,
the fact that you are a jock or for any other
reason? Explain what happened. How did you
feel? How did you react?
1 paragraph, s-u-t-w style, color code please
Today’s Agenda
• Warm-Up
• Interactive Notes – 14-2 Part 2 “Holocaust”
• Homework
– Take the weekend off 
Chapter 14, Section 2
The Holocaust
Today’s Standard
10.8 Students analyze the causes and
consequences of World War II.
4. Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity,
especially against the European Jews; its
transformation into the Final Solution; and the
Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six
million Jewish civilians.
Essential Question
What was the Holocaust and what responsibility
does the world have to prevent things like it in the
future?
“They came first for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant
Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up.”
-Martin Niemoller
Setting the Stage
• Holocaust = Mass slaughter of
European Jews
• Germans call themselves
Aryans they believe they’re
Master Race
• The Nuremberg Laws (1935)
– Citizenship revoked;
deprived of jobs & property;
Star of David
• Kristallnacht – Nov. 9, 1938
– “Night of Broken Glass” – first
organized and gov’t sanctioned
violence against Jews.
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Flight & Isolation
Flood of Jewish refugees
Nations close doors
Euro. Jews isolated in “ghettos”
Ghettos were used to keep Jews separated
from the rest of the population.
– Sealed w/ barbed
wire & stone walls
– Goal: starve or die
from disease
Starving children in Warsaw ghetto
Heinrich Himmler, Head of SS
Hitler’s “Final Solution”
• The Nazi plan to engage in a
Genocide against the Jewish
population
– Genocide = systematic
killing of an entire people
– Targeted Jews, gypsies,
Poles, Russians,
homosexuals, the insane, the
disabled, & incurably ill
– Mass executions,
concentration camps, &
A member of
Einsatzgruppe D prepares
to shoot a Ukrainian Jew,
who is forced to kneel
before a mass grave full of
other victims.
Ukrainian
Jew about to
be murdered
A German policeman shoots individual Jewish women who
remain alive in the ravine after the mass execution. (1942)
Jews Executed in Nazi-Occupied Ukraine
Group of Children just before
their Execution, USSR
A group of children just before they were
executed by an Einsatzkommando
(Soviet Union, wartime. Central State
Archives of Film,
Photo and Phonographic Documents of the
Latvian SSR, USHMM Photo).
Mass Exterminations
• Final Stage = 1942 (Final Solution)
• 6 death camps in Poland
• Gas chambers – 6,000 deaths a day
– Poisoned with cyanide gas
Crematoria ovens in
• Ovens used to burn bodies
Buchenwald camp
Bodies at Buchenwald
Timeline for Nazi
Extermination Camps
Auschwitz
Corpses in Belsen
Mass Grave in Bergen-Belsen
Dachau Freezing Experiments
Jewish children, victims of medical
experiments in Auschwitz
The Holocaust and Resistance
• Some Jewish resistance and help from
non-Jewish people
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer – famous
Christian leader, part of Nazi
resistance movement – executed for
attempted to assassinate Hitler
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
– Oscar Schindler – businessman who
saved over 1,000 Jews
• 90% of Jews in Poland & Germany killed
during Holocaust
– 6 Million Jews were murdered in Holocaust
• 6 Million additional people murdered in
death and concentration camps as well.
– Pols, homosexual, Russians, etc…
Oscar Schindler
Little Polish Boy
Liberated Concentration Camp
Survivors – From Mauthausen camp
May 5, 1945
“Never shall I forget the little faces of the
children, whose bodies I saw turned into
wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.
Never shall I forget those flames which
consumed my faith forever…Never shall I
forget those moments which murdered my
God and my soul and turned my dreams to
dust…Never.”
Elie Wiesel from Night
Quick-Write
What do you think this quote means? How does
it reflect the horrors of the Holocaust?