Transcript Holocaust

Holocaust
• Element: Identify Nazi ideology, policies, and
consequences that led to the Holocaust.
• Vocabulary: Nazi ideology, Holocaust
Nazi Ideology
Nazi Racism:
• idea that the Germans,
or Aryans, were the
“Master race”
• all non-Aryans were
inferior; especially the
Jews
Nazi Ideology
Anti-Semitism:
• hatred of Jewish people
• long existed in Western Europe
• during the depression of the 1920s Hitler
claimed the entire Jewish community were
anti-German and the source of the nation’s
problems
• Jewish leaders also played a dominate role in
the acceptance of the Treaty Versailles in 1919
Nazi Ideology
After 1920s:
• Jews became the
national enemy of
Germany
Policies
First Solution:
• Nuremburg Laws – laws passed to reduce the right of
Jewish people in Germany
• ex. German and Jews could not marry
Policies
Kristallnacht:
• “night of broken glass”
• terror campaign against
Jewish synagogues and
Jewish owned
businesses
Kristallnacht
Policies
Isolation:
• All Jews were forced to wear a patch with the
Star of David
• Ghettos - Germans began moving Jews into
designated cities then into run down parts of the
city known as ghettos
• Concentration Camps – Hitler moved Jews out of
the cities to work camps that forced the Jews to
work for the Nazi’s. Stripped the Jewish
community of individuality, taking way all their
belongings.
Identifying Jews
The Warsaw Ghetto in Poland
Policies
Final Solution:
• Concentration camps became death camps:
example Auschwitz
• Hitler’s plan for genocide or killing off of the
Jews
• SS troops (Hitler’s security force) became
killing squads that searched through all
German controlled territories hunting down
Jews
SS Killing Squads
Extermination Camps
Auschwitz Extermination
Camp
Concentration Camps
Buchenwald Camp
Consequences of the Holocaust
• the slaughter of an estimated 6 million Jews
(does not include Roma-Gypsies, Slavs, Poles,
Handicapped, among others)
• Nuremberg Trials: Nazi leaders brought to trial
for “crimes against humanity” (Holocaust)
• The Holocaust matters today because the
violence against the Jews led to the founding
of Israel after World War II.
Jews Killed Under Nazi Rule
Jews Killed
Percent
Surviving
Poland
Original
Jewish
Population
3,300,000
2,800,000
15%
Soviet Union
2,100,000
1,500,000
29%
Hungary
404,000
200,000
49%
Romania
850,000
425,000
50%
Germany/
Austria
270,000
210,000
22%
Aftermath
• General Eisenhower inspects a camp in 1945.