Transcript The Holocaust

The Holocaust
Unit 4
Lesson 7
(Section 25.3)
Objectives:
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Define the problem of anti-Semitism in Germany and
tell how the Jewish people were used as scapegoats.
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Explain how Germany’s policies towards Jews developed
into genocide.
Warm Up
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Explain how the
Allies closed in for
victory in Europe.
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US & GB attacked
N.Africa, then moved
North into Italy
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RUS defended
Stalingrad & pushed
West
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US attacked GRM in
FRA (D-Day) and
pushed East
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RUS captures Berlin,
Mussolini executed,
Hitler kills self
Hitler’s “Jewish Problem”
Anti-Semitism in Germany
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Mein Kampf
 Master Aryan Race
 Rid of “undesirables”
 Anti-Semitism
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Nuremburg Laws: 1935-38
 Strip Jews of all citizenship rights,
exclude from society
 Marked w/Jewish star
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Kristallnacht:
 Nov 9-10, 1938
 Night Broken Glass
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Emigration
 ¼ fled
 Euro, US, “Palestine” – resent #s
“Final Solution”
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Ghettos
 Confined living spaces w/
brutal conditions, 1000s died
 Most in Poland – 2m Jews
 Uprising 1943
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Einsatzgruppen Mobile killing squads
(Killed 1.5m b/t 1939-41)
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Wannsee Conference
 Genocide - deliberate
destruction of group
 “Final Solution” to Jewish
problem
Concentration Camps
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“Undesirables”
 Jews
 Jehovah’s Witnesses,
Gypsies, homeless,
mentally ill,
homosexuals
Labor & prison camps.
 Supervised by SS
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Humiliated, tattooed,
stripped of all
valuables overworked,
starved, beaten,
shot….
Mass Extermination
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Death Camps
 Auschwitz & 5
others (Poland)
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Gas Chambers
 “Shower Rooms”
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Medical
experiments
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Buried at
first…cremated
later.
The Survivors
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Survivors liberated
by Allies 1943-45.
 War Refugees Board –
’44 – US rescue &
protection
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Death Marches (4445)
 6 million Jewish people
die
 4 million other
undesirables die
Nuremberg Trials
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Nov 1945-Oct 1946
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Internatl Military Tribunal
(IMT)…
 24 Nazis and 6 German
Org’s for…
 Crimes against peace
 War crimes
 Crimes against humanity
 All plead not guilty
“following orders”
 12 death penalty
 8 prison, 3 acquitted
Video
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Describe the role that propaganda played in manipulating
the thoughts and actions of the German people.
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Anne Frank is famous for her statement that, despite her
experiences during World War II, she still believed in the
goodness of people. Knowing what you know about the
events that transpired in Nazi concentration camps, do
you have the same belief? Discuss the argument that the
Nazi soldiers “were following orders” when they
committed these war crimes.
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Discuss the meaning of the Holocaust Memorial
inscription, “We must bear witness.” What do you think is
the better way to understand the Holocaust, by learning
historic facts or by hearing survivor stories? Explain your
response
Closure
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The Holocaust was a human tragedy on a global
scale. Millions of lives were exterminated by Hitler
and the Nazis, and many more people died trying to
stop them. Do you believe it’s possible that a similar
tragedy could still happen in the world today, even
though the human race has already experienced it
before? Why or why not? Are similar, smaller events
going on right now (and in the recent past)? If so,
why do you think they are happening