Transcript Road to the Holocaust

 Hitler’s Rise to Power
 Steps to the Final
Solution (eliminate
all Jews)
 Unanswered
Questions
 Anti-Semitism: prejudice against the Jewish people
 Aryan: term used to describe the Nazi’s concept of a
superior race
 Prejudice: negative preconceived opinion about a
group of people
 Discrimination: treat unfavorably on the basis of
race, color, or sex
 Stereotype: treat or classify according to a mental
conception or image
 Scapegoat: a person or group of people blamed for
the actions of others
 Bystander: a person who is present at an event, but
does not participate or object to what is happening
 Holocaust: total burnt offering
 Shoah: Jewish term for the Holocaust
 Genocide: systematic murder of all people in a
targeted group
 Totalitarianism: total control of all aspects of life
(people or state) by one person or party
 High unemployment
 High poverty
 Promised: food and jobs
 Had to accept blame for World War I
 Pay large amounts for damages (reparation)
 Give up colonies
 Promised: avenge Germany’s loss and scrap treaty
 Anti-Semitic
 Sway public’s opinion
 Promised: “proper enlightenment” (Aryan race)
German
Propaganda
This is an example of
German propaganda
during World War II.
This pictures states
that “the Jew is the
most poisonous
mushroom in
existence.” This
particular picture
was used to teach
children anti-Semitic
beliefs.
 Jews became the “scapegoats” for all Germany’s
problems
 They were the reason for unemployment, poverty, and
loss of national pride
 Strong love for the “fatherland”
 Basis for national superiority: Germans are superior to
all races
 Hitler used feelings to promote national pride or
racism
 Treaty of Versailles reduced Germany’s military power
 Promised: ignore the treaty and rebuild the military
 Germany had long history of governments ruled by
dictatorial rule (ruling family)
 Greatest moments in history occurred under
totalitarianism rule
 Promised: return to tradition
 Used terror to maintain power
 Established Storm troopers (SR) and then SS (elite of
German army)
 Formed secret police called the Gestapo
 Signs to stop
Germans from
supporting Jewish
businesses
 Public yelling of
insults
 Signs to compare
Jews to rats
 Declared Jews 2nd class
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citizens
Excluded from the
practice of law, medicine,
teaching, and
professional jobs
Social contact with Jews
illegal
Special I.D. cards
Cannot: go to beach, use
public transportation,
own a car
Can be: evicted,
divorced, shop during
certain hours
 Heavily guarded and
isolated (fenced in)
areas of cities
 Used to contain
growing numbers of
Jews
 Not allowed to leave
 Serious lack of food
and water
 Jewish men, women, and
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children
80 – 100 Jews placed in a
cattle car
No food, little water, one
bucket for personal
needs, one window
Dead thrown out at
“stops”
Upon arrival separated
into 2 columns: Live or
die
Small children (babies)
killed immediately in fire
pits- alive
 Where was the rest of the world?
 Why didn’t the Jews resist?
 Why didn’t the Germans protest?
“Whoever hates, hates
his brother, and
whenever one hates his
brother, one always
hates himself.”