Transcript The Holocaust - Youngstown State University

The extermination of an entire race
Mr. Donald A. Fuller
Grade 9 & 10
September 19, 2010
Holocaust
• Great destruction resulting in the extensive loss
of life, especially by fire.
Anti-Semitism
• Hostility toward or prejudice against Jews or
Judaism.
•Adolf Hitler comes to power in August 1934
•Hitler believed the Jewish Population in
Germany were responsible for the economic
depression.
•1934 Nuremburg Laws passed, made Jewish
people “subjects,” not “citizens.”
http://www.chattershmatter.com
•www.antifascistencyclopedia.com
Kristallnacht or “night of broken glass”
-religious centers, homes, anything that
belonged to Jewish people was destroyed
www.antifascistencyclopedia.com
http://resources.ushmm.org
Blonde
Hair
Tall
Slim
Narrow face
Fair skin
tone
Smooth
hair
Long
legged
Prominent
chin
Blue eyes
Description of a ‘pure’
Aryan. From a leaflet ‘The
Nazi Race’, 1929.
http://www.ushmm.org
http://missam.tumblr.com
Jewish Population in Germany
Jewish Pop.
10,000,000
9,000,000
8,000,000
7,000,000
6,000,000
5,000,000
4,000,000
3,000,000
2,000,000
1,000,000
0
German Pop.
9,000,000
5,533,000
3,000,000 3,170,000
Before War
After War
All Jews were forced to wear a Star of
David on their clothes for easy ID.
http://www.chgs.umn.edu
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn
http://en.wikipedia.org
 Used to “round up” Jews.
 Made it was easy to move the populations.
 Ghetto’s governed by Nazi appointed Jewish councils.
 people not allowed to leave.
“Work makes you free”
http://www.squidoo.com
http://www.martinfrost.ws
First used as prisons, later on as forced labor camps, and extermination camps.
These camps were prison/work camps.
Made war materials, weapons, uniforms, etc.
By 1945 20,000 camps existed.
Explore on your own,
click picture to take a
journey with Anne
Frank.
http://www.ushmm.org
Click for interactive guide!
http://www.ushmm.org
http://www.ushmm.org
http://www.qualityinformationpublishers.com
Prisoners use their food bowls as pillows.
Discover a typical day in camp
Severe malnutrition
http://www.life.com
http://www.ns88.com
http://www.ukrainians.ca
Nazi plan to annihilate the Jewish population
 Jewish prisoners arrive
via rail system
 Sorted into those the
could work (live)
 Those that couldn’t
work(killed
immediately)
http://www.bbc.co.uk
“Prisoners” were striped of all they own, from clothes,
jewelry and even gold teeth and fillings!
Those that were fit to work, were tattooed with a serial
number.
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0bmC2pf3OGc08
http://www.ushmm.org
http://anonymous-generaltopics.blogspot.com
http://grossmanproject.net
http://www.sephardicstudies.org
http://www.scrapbookpages.com
http://www.travelblog.org
http://www-sul.stanford.edu
Zyklon B gas canisters
http://commons.wikimedia.org
http://commons.wikimedia.org
At first bodies were burned and buried, this was too in efficient.
http://commons.wikimedia.org
http://www.ushmm.org
Later a more stream lined process, cremation.
http://www.scrapbookpages.com
http://www.ushmm.org
http://www.scrapbookpages.com
http://www.scrapbookpages.com
Nuremburg Trial
United Nations
www.un.org/en
 replace the flawed
League of Nations in
1945 in order to maintain
international peace and
promote cooperation in
solving international
economic, social and
humanitarian problems.
http://commons.wikimedia.org
http://politicalvoicesofwomen.ning.com
http://www.colinandrews.net
Is every German a Nazi? Is every Nazi a killer?
Is Adolf Hitler solely to blame?
Broadcasting Company. (2010, October 1). BBC - History - World wars: interactive map of Auschwitz. BBC - Homepage.
Retrieved October 3, 2010, from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/launch_ani_auschwitz_map.shtml
ChatterShmatter. (2010, August 9). ChatterShmatter. Retrieved October 3, 2010, from http://www.chattershmatter.com
Freman, M. (n.d.). JewishGen - The home of Jewish genealogy. JewishGen - The Home of Jewish Genealogy. Retrieved September
28, 2010, from http://www.jewishgen.org
Jacobs, A. (n.d.). A.m blog. a.m blog. Retrieved October 3, 2010, from http://missam.tumblr.com
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (n.d.). United States Holocaust memorial museum. Retrieved October 3, 2010, from
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Ghetto - definition of ghetto by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and encyclopedia.. (n.d.). Dictionary, Encyclopedia
and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary. Retrieved October 2, 2010, from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ghetto