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The Holocaust
What was it?
And why did it
happen?
What is the Holocaust?
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The Holocaust was
the systematic
annihilation of 6
million Jewish people
during the Nazi
genocide.
Events that led up to the Holocaust
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Germany’s defeat in World War I left them with a broken
government and a severely limited military
The Treaty of Versailles
*Germany had to accept responsible for WWI
*Pay for the damages caused by the war
*Disarmament (gun control)
*Territorial Clauses – Germany had to give back land
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This left many Germens angry, humiliated and demoralized.
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Hitler used this to get power. He promised to restore German
pride and rip up the Treaty of Versailles.
Events that led up to the Holocaust
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Hyperinflation – inflation growing at a very high
rate in a very short time
*ruined the middle class and people
*people in Germany were broke and didn’t have
money to buy food
*they began listening to Hitler
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Hitler was a great speaker and people were
listening to him. Many people felt it was time for
a new government. This is why many Germans
began joining the Nazis Party. Hitler blamed the
Jews for the situation the Germany was in.
Events that led up to the Holocaust
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Wall Street Crashed in
1929
Americans lent Germany
money after WWI to
stabilize the economy
They called back the
money they lent
Germany was Broke:
people didn’t even have
money to buy food to feed
their children
Unemployed Germans Turn to Hitler
Year
1920
Unemployed
Germans
1,320,000
1930
3,000,000
1931
4,350,000
1932
5,102,000
1933
6,100,000
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With the unemployment
rate growing the
Germans turned to the
Nazis, (Hitler) a new
political party
Hitler Begins His Genocide
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Genocide: What is it?
The term "genocide" did not exist before 1944.
It is a very specific term, referring to violent
crimes committed against groups with the intent
to destroy the existence of the group.
People did not know what Hitler was planning to
do when they chose to follow him.
Hitler’s goal was to achieve German racial
“purity” He not only imprisoned Jews, but
Gypsies, people with handicaps, and
homosexuals
Hitler’s Steps to genocide the Jews:
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1930 World Wide Depression
Hit Germany (Hitler makes
promise to rid Germany of all
Jew’s and Communist)
1933 The Nazi Party takes
power in Germany, Hitler
becomes Chancellor.
1933 Jewish people were
banished from government
jobs, universities, and a
boycott against Jewish shops
(A boycott is the act of
voluntarily abstaining from
using, buying, or dealing with
a person, organization, or
country as an expression of
protest)
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1935 Nuremberg Laws:
*Jewish people were seen as German
“subjects” not citizens
*Inter-marriage was outlawed
*More professions were closed to
Jewish people
*Most shops displayed signs reading
“No Jews Allowed”
Hitler’s Steps to genocide the Jews:
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1938: Nazis attack Jews
throughout Germany:
30,000 Jews arrested, 91
Jews killed, and 500
shops and businesses
destroyed More than
1,000 synagogues were
set on fire
1938: Jewish children
are expelled from public
schools
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1938: Nazis seize control
of Jewish owned
businesses
1939 Germany invades
Poland World War II
Begins
1939 Nazis order Polish
Jews into restricted
ghettos and force them
into slave labor
The Ghettos were established in
1939
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The Ghettos were the slum
areas of towns that the
Jewish people of Germany
were forced to live and
were walled off from the
rest of the town.
Jews from wide areas were
rounded up and forced to
live in unbearable
conditions in cramped
ghettos with no sanitation
and if you were unable to
work you didn’t eat.
Many starved to death in the
Ghettos
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Because many children were not able to work,
they were denied food and died from starvation
How did something like this happen?
Could something this
horrific happen today?
Map Showing Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camps Slave
Camps and Holding Centers
Vocabulary To Know
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Synagogue: house of Jewish worship
Kaddish: Jewish prayer for the dead
Aryan: non-Jewish Caucasian
Rabbi: a Jewish teacher
Gestapo: Nazi secret police (part of the SS)
Anti-Semite: Jew- hatred; it is more than just
prejudice; all forms of hostility manifested
toward Jewish people
Pestilential (pes’te len’ shel): filled with disease;
contagious
Vocabulary To Know
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Rosh Hashanah: the Jewish New Year and
usually occurs in September
Yom Kippur: comes 10 days after Rosh
Hashanah and is a day of fasting and
atonement
Emaciated: marked by abnormal thinness
caused by starvation or disease
Queue (ku): waiting line