Transcript The Holocaust

 Capital of China at the time
 Lasted from 6-8 weeks
 Japanese>Chinese as Nazis>Jews
 Fed to dogs, beheaded, used as
target practice, frozen alive,
experimented on, raped.
 Women were gang raped and
men were burned and shot at by
the thousands (about 250,000).
 MacArthur traded silence for
Japanese research on germ
warfare’s affects on humans
 Law against raping enemy women
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just led to murder.
After raping them many of the
Japanese soldiers cut parts off.
Streets were full of bodies, and
intestines were strewn all over the
place.
400,000 est. killed in 8 weeks
Younger than 8 and older than 70
raped and tortured.
Tied men to posts and stuck needles
in them, crucified them, ran over
them, etc…
Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
1933-1945
***READ FIRST PAGE OF BOOKLET***
 Anti-Semitism was deep
rooted in European history.
 Scapegoats for all problems
including WWI.
Hitler’s Germany = racially pure
(ARYAN race)
Nuremburg Laws = stripped
Jews of civil rights
Kristallnacht = night of broken
glass
November 9th, 1938
 1934-37:
 Jews are no longer allowed National health
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insurance or legal qualifications and are banned
from teaching Germans, accounting, and
dentistry.
Hitler becomes Fuhrer: approval rating is 90%.
Jews are banned from serving in the military.
The German Gestapo is placed “above the law”.
Olympic Games take place in Berlin(Hitler is
popular).
 1938:
 Kritstallnacht
 Jews are issued identification cards.
 Jewish doctors are no longer allowed to practice
medicine.
 Jewish people are forced to add Christian names
to their legal documents.
 Nazis arrest Jews of Polish decent and deport
them.
 1939:
 Nazis take all gold and silver from
Jews.
 Jews are given curfews and begin to be
placed into ghettos.
 Trains
 Unsanitary, over crowded, and lack of food
 Jews are referred to as a “plague” in
German newspapers.
 Hitler makes proclamation about
isolation of Jews.
 Polish Jews are forced to wear yellow
stars to identify themselves.
 1940:
 Nazis build Auschwitz concentration
camp.
 German Jews are deported to Poland
and France.
 1941:
 First use of Zyklon-B gas in
Auschwitz.
 1942:
 Jews from other countries begin
being deported to Auschwitz.
 New York Times reports that 100s of
1,000s of Jews have been gunned
down by Nazis.
 Medical experiments begin at
Auschwitz.
 Britain recognizes Nazi goal to
exterminate the Jewish people.
***READ SECOND PAGE OF BOOKLET***
 1943:
 Nazis dig up bodies of
over one million Jews that
were killed and burn the
evidence.
 First Jewish resistance at
Concentration Camps-some
actually escape.
 Gas chambers and
crematories open at
Auschwitz.
 Dr. Mengele arrives at
Auschwitz and begins
performing operations.
***READ THIRD PAGE OF BOOKLET***
 1944:
 Roosevelt creates War Refugee Board and accuses
Germany and Japan of “crimes against humanity”.
 Anne Frank and her family are arrested by Gestapo
and sent to Auschwitz.
 Nazis continue to gas Jews at Auschwitz and force
others to run miles in winter weather.
 1945:
 Nazis conduct death marches of Concentration
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Camp inmates as allies approach.
Russians Liberate Budapest, Warsaw, and
Auschwitz.
Allies liberate Buchenwald and U.S. Army liberates
Dachau.
Americans free 33,000 concentration camp inmates.
Germany signs unconditional surrender.
*Put into lines and sorted-torn from family
*Buried Bodies, then built Crematorium to hide evidence
*Prisoners buried their own dead/put them in crematorium(Family threatened)
*Forced Labor-worked to death
 Mass executions
 Still did not satisfy the Germans
 Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp
 Bodies burned in ovens
 Massive burial pits
 Covered up evidence
 Jews were put to death by:
 Gas chambers
 Killed 6,000 daily
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Mass executions
Scientific experiments
Hanged
Injected w/poison
Executed
•Jews
•Jehovah’s witnesses
•Catholics
•Communists
•Socialists
•Gypsies
•Homosexuals
•Soviet POWs
Two thirds of all
European Jews Killed
 Appointed by Hitler as mastermind
and helped to organize and
implement:
 Kristallnacht
 Deportation and Final Solution
 Death camps and Gas chambers
 Escaped to Buenos Aires with a
new name
 Found by 5 Israelis
 Long process began in 1961
 Signatures and Ordered murder of
boy who ate cherries.
 Death sentence in May of 1962
 Head of S.S.
 Involved in
 Implementation of Final Solution
 Camp security
 Gas chamber because of women and
children in “cold blood”
 Speech to S.S.
 Extermination of Jews was a “small
matter”
 Better place in war due to lack of
Jews
 Any German who disagrees…
 Fled in May of 1945 and was
captured by British: bit cyanide pill
 Chief Doctor at Auschwitz
 “Angel of Death” and “Uncle”
 Twins, dwarfs, eye color,
abnormalities, created
Siamese twins, dissected,
chemicals in eyes, pregnant
women, etc…
 Fled to Farm in Germany,
then to Argentina, them
Paraguay, then stroke while
swimming.
***READ FINAL PAGE OF BOOKLET***
 Forced Death
Marches
 Allies liberated the
first camps in July
of 1944
 Soviets first to get
there
 6 million Jews had
died
 Found 14,000 lbs of
hair, clothes, etc…