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HOLOCAUST
The Final Solution
1933 - 1945
HOLOCAUST
• RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF 6
MILLION JEWS
• 4-6 MILLION OTHERS (“INFERIORS” SLAVS, GYPSIES, POLES, THE
INSANE, POLITICAL PRISONERS)
• ANTI-SEMITISM - LONG HISTORY IN
GERMANY AND EUROPE
NUREMBERG LAWS - 1935
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BOYCOTTS OF JEWISH BUSINESSES
VOTING RIGHTS DENIED
FORCED FROM JOBS
PASSPORTS STAMPED WITH “J”
MARRIAGE TO ARYANS FORBIDDEN
EXPELLED FROM SCHOOLS
STAR OF DAVID ON CLOTHING
KRISTALLNACHT - 1938
• “NIGHT OF BROKEN
GLASS”
• SHOPS DESTROYED
• BUSINESSES LOOTED
AND BURNED
• JEWS BEATEN
• DONE BY POLICE
DRESSED AS CIVILIANS
WAR ESCALATES
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WAR AGAINST JEWS WORSENS
TRAPPED AND ISOLATED
MORE RESTRICTIONS
FORCED INTO GHETTOS
FORCED LABOR
CONCENTRATION CAMPS (Dachau –
first camp)
FINAL SOLUTION
• WANSEE CONFERENCE (1942)
• BELIEVED TO BE THE SITE OF THE
PLAN TO ELIMINATE ALL JEWS IN
EUROPE
• CODE WORDS - RELOCATION, WORK
CAMPS, JEWISH PROBLEM
• GAS IS SUGGESTED - ZYKLON B MORE EFFICIENT
THE PROCESS
• GHETTOS EMPTIED - TOLD THEY
WERE GOING TO WORK CAMPS
• THOUSANDS DIED FROM EXPOSURE,
HUNGER, DISEASE
• SOME SENT IMMEDIATELY TO
DEATH
• GUARDS - TORTURED & HUMILIATED
THE PROCESS (CONT’D)
• WEAK WERE SENT TO “SHOWERS”
WHERE THEY WERE GASSED
• SENT TO CREMATORIA (OVENS)
• GOLD FILLINGS, HAIR REMOVED
• PERSONAL BELONGINGS TAKEN
• HORRIBLE MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS
(DR. JOSEPH MENGELE)
THE DEATH CAMPS
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Auschwitz (Poland) 2-21/2 million
Chelmo
Bergen-Belsen
Mauthausen
Sobibor
Treblinka
MISCELLANEOUS
• Theresienstadt – “model camp” to show
Red Cross and press their wonderful
conditions
• Sobibor – major successful revolt
• Warsaw Ghetto uprising – held off the
German army for several weeks; eventually
captured and killed
Hitler and Goring
Jews Forced to Wear Yellow Star
A Star For The Children, Too
Warsaw ghetto
Child in ghetto factory
Kristallnacht
Hartheim euthanasia center
Map of Camps
Einsatzgruppen – Mobile Killing Squads
Deportation to Auschwitz
Train to the Death Camps
Buchenwald
Dachau
“Shower”
Ovens
Belongings
Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
“Prisoners”
Bergen-Belsen
Buchenwald
Victims of Buchenwald
Buchenwald
Buchenwald
Liberation of Buchenwald
Mass Graves for Prisoners
Uncovered Grave
Crematorium
Liberation of Auschwitz
Liberation of Dachau
Madjanek gas canister
Zyklon B cannisters
Railway transport to camps
Buchenwald
Einsatzgruppen
Auschwitz crematoria
Dachau aerial view
Photos taken by U.S. soldier
U.S. Soldiers Execute Nazis
Survivors!
Nuremberg Trials