Transcript The Holocaust

Unit 4
Lesson 7
(Section 25.3)
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Define the problem of anti-Semitism in
Germany and tell how the Jewish people were
used as scapegoats.
Explain how Germany’s policies towards Jews
developed into genocide.
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Explain how the Allies
closed in for victory in
Europe.
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US & GB attacked N.Africa,
then moved North into Italy
RUS defended Stalingrad &
pushed West
US attacked GRM in FRA
(D-Day) and pushed East
RUS captures Berlin,
Mussolini executed, Hitler
kills self
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Mein Kampf
Master Aryan Race
 Rid of “undesirables”
 Anti-Semitism
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Nuremburg Laws: 1935-38
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Strip Jews of all citizenship
rights, exclude from society
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Marked w/Jewish star
Kristallnacht:
Nov 9-10, 1938
 Night Broken Glass
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Emigration
¼ fled
 Euro, US, “Palestine” – resent #s
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Ghettos
 Confined living spaces w/
brutal conditions, 1000s
died
 Most in Poland – 2m Jews
 Uprising 1943
Einsatzgruppen Mobile killing squads (Killed
1.5m b/t 1939-41)
Wannsee Conference
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Genocide - deliberate destruction of
group
“Final Solution” to Jewish problem
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“Undesirables”
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Labor & prison camps.
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Jews
Jehovah’s Witnesses,
Gypsies, homeless, mentally
ill, homosexuals
Supervised by SS
Humiliated, tattooed,
stripped of all valuables
overworked, starved,
beaten, shot….
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Death Camps
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Gas Chambers
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Auschwitz & 5
others (Poland)
“Shower Rooms”
Medical
experiments
Buried at
first…cremated
later.
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Survivors liberated
by Allies 1943-45.
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WRB – ’44 – US
rescue & protection
Death Marches (4445)
6 million Jewish
people die
 4 million other
undesirables die
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Nov 1945-Oct 1946
Internatl Military Tribunal (IMT)…
 24 Nazis and 6 German Org’s
for…
 Crimes against peace
 War crimes
 Crimes against humanity
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All plead not guilty
“following orders”
 12 death penalty
 8 prison, 3 acquitted
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Describe the role that propaganda played in manipulating the
thoughts and actions of the German people.
Anne Frank is famous for her statement that, despite her
experiences during World War II, she still believed in the
goodness of people. Knowing what you know about the
events that transpired in Nazi concentration camps, do you
have the same belief? Discuss the argument that the Nazi
soldiers “were following orders” when they committed these
war crimes.
Discuss the meaning of the Holocaust Memorial inscription,
“We must bear witness.” What do you think is the better way
to understand the Holocaust, by learning historic facts or by
hearing survivor stories? Explain your response
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The Holocaust was a human tragedy on a global
scale. Millions of lives were exterminated by Hitler
and the Nazis, and many more people died trying
to stop them. Do you believe it’s possible that a
similar tragedy could still happen in the world
today, even though the human race has already
experienced it before? Why or why not? Are
similar, smaller events going on right now (and in
the recent past)? If so, why do you think they are
happening