Transcript Diapositiva 1

The holocaust
TITLE
Time line
Hitler in power
Night of broken glass
Gas tasted at Auschwitz
The final solution
War begin
Ghettos establish in Poland
Nuremberg Laws
Deporting to
Extermination
Camps
Auschwitz
establish
1933
1935
1938
Pre war
1939
1940
Germany serenaded
1941
World war 2
1944
1945
The rise of the Nazi party
 The rise of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) was swift and far from certain. Support for
Hitler and his Nazi Party only took off after the full impact of the Wall Street
Crash (October 1929) was felt on Weimar Germany.
 Prior to the Wall Street Crash, in 1928 the Nazis polled less than 3% of the
popular vote. Just four years later the vote for the Nazis had increased to just
over 37% of those who voted.
 The Collapse of German Democracy.
Berlin, Germany, 27.2.1933, The Reichstag in Flames
Germany, Prewar, A Nazi Propaganda Poster Calling Workers to Vote for Hitler
The Nazi party Ideology
 Lebensraum - the need for 'living space' for the German nation to expand.
 A strong Germany - the Treaty of Versailles should be abolished and all Germanspeaking people united in one country.
 Führer - the idea that there should be a single leader with complete power
rather than a democracy.
 Social Darwinism - the idea that the Aryan race was superior and Jews were
'subhuman'.
 Autarky - the idea that Germany should be economically self-sufficient.
 Germany was in danger - from Communists and Jews, who had to be destroyed.
The party developed a 25-Point Programme, which - after the failure of the
Munich Putsch in 1924 - Hitler explained further in his book 'Mein Kampf'.
The Persecution of
Non-Jewish Groups
 Jews were not the only victims of the Nazi regime in Germany. In
keeping with their policy, the Nazis took action to suppress various
racial and social groups and to remove them from society.
 The Sinti and Roma (the "Gypsies").
 The disabled and mentally ill.
 homosexuals, alcoholics, and homeless vagrants and Ideological
opponents such as Communists or members of certain churches, were
persecuted even if they were considered members of the "Aryan
race."
Social Exclusion and Economic
Persecution of the Jews
• Law- Nuremberg Laws- These laws imposed various restrictions on the lives of
the Jews in Germany and banished them from social and economic life.
• Social- many Germans were inclined to have nothing to do with Jews, whether
due to Antisemitism or in return for benefits, such as economic, social and
political gains, which they obtained by the dispossession of the Jews.
Germany, A Sign Which Reads :'Jews are Not Wanted Here'
A bench with the inscription Only for Jews, Germany
Time line
Hitler in power
Night of broken glass
Gas tasted at Auschwitz
The final solution
War begin
Ghettos establish in Poland
Nuremberg Laws
Deporting to
Extermination
Camps
Auschwitz
establish
1933
1935
1938
Pre war
1939
1940
Germany serenaded
1941
World war 2
1944
1945
Isolation and Ghettoization
 In September 1939 the Germans invaded Poland, thus subjecting around two
million Polish Jews, to violence, humiliation, dispossession, and arbitrary
kidnappings for forced labor.
 Thousands of Jews were murdered in the first months of the occupation.
 Ghettos- Shortly after the occupation, the Germans began to confine the Jews
to specific residential neighborhoods in the cities, cutting the Jews off almost
totally from their surroundings.
 The German invasion of the USSR and areas of Eastern Poland, in the summer of
1941, saw a wave of mass murders of Jews in these areas. The remaining Jews
there were forced into ghettos, similar to Jews in Western Poland.
The Nazi Camps
 As soon as the Nazis came to power, they began to set up concentration camps
as a tool for suppressing political opponents and "undesirable" elements of
society.
 2 kind of camps- Labor camps and Concentration camps.
 Gradually, the Nazis came to use the camps for the economic exploitation of the
inmates by means of forced labor.
 Living conditions in the camps were inhumane, and masses of prisoners died of
starvation, hard labor and abuse.
 The camp system of the Third Reich reached its peak after the opening of the
Auschwitz complex, more than a million Jews were murdered.
Time line
Hitler in power
Night of broken glass
Gas tasted at Auschwitz
The final solution
War begin
Ghettos establish in Poland
Nuremberg Laws
Deporting to
Extermination
Camps
Auschwitz
establish
1933
1935
1938
Pre war
1939
1940
Germany serenaded
1941
World war 2
1944
1945
The Final Solution
 Upon the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Nazis introduced the plan
for the systematic murder of European Jewry known as "the Final Solution of
the Jewish Problem“ Beginning on June 22, 1941.
 All Jews in Germany and other occupied areas and the occupied countries were
deported to sealed ghettos as a holding area.
 Many were then shipped in cattle cars to labor camps where they lived under
brutally inhuman conditions. Hundreds of thousands were sent directly to the
gas chambers in death camps.
 German technological expertise was harnessed to make the mass murder as
efficient and low-cost as possible.
The Nazi Extermination Camps
 The majority of Holocaust victims were murdered by the Nazis in six killing
centers strictly intended for this purpose.
 Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau)- 1,100,000
 Chełmno- 320,000
 Belzec- 600,000
 Majdanek- 360,000
 Sobibor- 250,000
 Treblinka- 700,000–800,000
 The total estimate of Jews that were killed- 6,000,000
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