Transcript The Holocaust - Mr. Glay's American History Page

The Holocaust
WWII Second Quarter
Mr. Glay
Wednesday January 25, 2012
• Seating Chart / attendance
• Collect registration cards for H.S.
• Take notes about the Holocaust in
our ISN’s.
• Watch a short clip on the Holocaust
(If time allows)
Objective
• To be able to define what the
Holocaust is and briefly explain
what took place in Germany
between 1943-1945.
Warm Up Questions
• What do you know about the Holocaust?
• Name two or three groups of people that
were persecuted during this time period.
• How were the German concentration
camps different than the Japanese
American Internment camps? How were
they similar?
Holocaust defined
• Great destruction resulting in
the extensive loss of life.
• The genocide of European
Jews and others by the Nazis
during World War II.
Definition of Genocide
• Systematic killing of a racial or cultural
group.
• Examples include……Jews, Pols,
Gypsies, Soviets, the disabled and elderly,
gay, and mentally ill during WWII.
• The genocide of Rwandan Tutsis in 1994.
WWII Camps
• Concentration Camp = Labor camp.
People worked to death.
• Death Camp = Camp meant to kill as
many as possible.
Dachau
• In 1933 the Nazis began
intensifying acts of violence to
wreak havoc among the
opposition. With the cooperation
of local authorities, they set up
camps as concentration centers
within Germany. One of the first
was Dachau, which opened in
March 1933. These early camps
were meant to hold, torture, or
kill only political prisoners, such
as Communists and Social
Democrats.
ROUNDED UP
GHETTOS
Ghetto’s
• After the invasion of Poland, the German Nazis
established ghettos in which Jews and some
Romani were confined, until they were
eventually shipped to death camps to be
murdered. The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest,
with 380,000 people
• From 1940 through 1942, starvation and disease
killed hundreds of thousands. Over 43,000
residents of the Warsaw ghetto died there in
1941.
NOTES
After the war starts the Nazis
come up with the Final Solution
100% elimination of all Jews.
At first, mass executions. At
Babi Yar, 100,000 Jews, mostly
Russian were shot.
Waiting to Die
A mother and
her two children
waiting with
other Jews.
Everyone in the
photo was shot
by the SS.
Another
mass
execution
A German
soldier
readies to
shoot a
Jewish man
in the head.
Jews were shot and pushed into mass
graves. The Germans felt that this
wasted too many bullets and too much
time
Instead of shooting them
Germans decided to gas and
incinerate the bodies.
Notes
Nazi’s come up with death camps
to kill as many Jews and others as
possible.
Treblinka: A death camp where
30,000 could be gassed to death
in a day.
Auschwitz death camp
Dachau
60,000 RM is what this person
with genetic defects costs the
community during his lifetime.
Fellow German, that's your
money too!”
Dachau
Crematoriums
Crematoria
ovens in
Buchenwald
concentration
camp.
The gassed bodies were
burned in ovens.
Experiments on Jewish
Children
Jews liberated by Americans
American
General tours
a liberated
death camp
Nuremberg Trials
• Nazi and Japanese leaders are put on trial for
crimes. Starting with the Nuremberg Trials: Top
21 Nazis put on trial.
• It was held from November 21, 1945 to October
1, 1946.
Misc Pictures
Summary Questions
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What is a Genocide?
Name a German Concentration camp?
What was Hitler’s Final Solution?
Briefly explain the Holocaust in two or
three sentences. What was it, why did it
happen, how can we prevent another from
happening.