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The Holocaust
Reading: Incorporates into lecture and
“Farewell to Manzanar”
Glossary
• Anti-Semitism: Discrimination against or prejudice or hostility
toward Jews
• Holocaust: The systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi
concentration camps during World War II
• Genocide: The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national,
racial, political, or cultural group.
• Aryan: Refered to the blond-haired, blue-eyed physical ideal of Nazi
Germany
• The “Final Solution”:
Jewish people
Refers to the Nazis plan to annihilate the
Origins Of
Hate
At the end of world war one, germans (including
hitler) Blamed the jews for germany’s defeat
During Hitler’s Imprisonment in 1923, he wrote the
memoir and propaganda tract "Mein Kampf" (My
Struggle), in which he predicted a general European
war that would result in "the extermination of the
Jewish race in Germany"
Hitler became obsessed with the purification of
germany where the ideal race would be “Aryan”
In 1933, Jews in Germany numbered around
525,000, or only 1 percent of the total German
population
Treatment of Jew prior to
war
• 1933: Nazis exclude Jews from the
Arts. Nazis prohibit Jews from
owning land and Jews are prohibited
from being newspaper editors.
• 1934: Jews not allowed national
health insurance
• 1935: Nuremberg Race Laws
Enacted (click the above and Read
about race laws)
• 1938: Kristallnacht - The Night of
Broken Glass (Click above and read
about Kristallnacht)
• Jews are forced into Ghettos and
then into concentration camps
Concentration Camps
Beginning in late 1941, the Germans
began mass transports from the ghettoes
in Poland to the concentration camps
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest and
most famous concentration camp where
From spring 1942 until the fall of 1944,
transport trains delivered Jews to the
camp's gas chambers from all over Nazioccupied Europe approximately three
million people had died there (2.5 million
exterminated, and 500,000 from disease
and starvation
The “Final Solution”
After the June 1941 German invasion of the Soviet
Union, SS and police units (acting as mobile killing
units) began massive killing operations aimed at
entire Jewish communities
In its entirety, the "Final Solution" called for the
murder of all European Jews by gassing, shooting,
and other means. Approximately six million Jewish
men, women, and children were killed during the
Holocaust -- two-thirds of the Jews living in
Europe before World War II
Concentration Camps were liberated by soviet and
american troops in 1945
Note to Reader
The Holocaust is a very difficult topic to cover in a
week
I encourage all of you to read more and go into more
depth