Transcript unit 8b holocaust_1_ - Weatherford High School

THE HOLOCAUST
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of
approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
"Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire."
KEY: Blue = test
Dark Pink = EOC
HITLER AND HIS VIEWS
 Hitler growing up was an adolescent child. He was rejected from art
school and developed basic ideas in Vienna that he held onto forever:
• Racism
• Need for struggle
• Political parties use propaganda for terror
Hitler’s Art School
Class at age 10.
H I TL E R A N D H I S V I E W S
C O N T.
 He left and went to Germany to get into politics.
 He joined the right wing extreme nationalist party in
Munich.
• This party would eventually be under his control
and be renamed National Socialist German
Worker’s Party or “Nazi” for short.
RAQ #1
Why did Hitler immediately feel he need to get into politics in
Germany after being kicked out of school and developing his three
views?
RISE OF NAZISM
 Hitler expanded his party to all of Germany in 4 years which became the
largest party in Reichstag (German parliament)
 He gained popularity by promising a “new” Germany and ending
economic depression.
 He soon took power from the president and created a new government
under the Enabling Act.
ENABLING ACT
 On March 23, 1933 two thirds vote of the Reichstag passed the Enabling
Act which gave Hitler and the government the power to ignore the
constitution for 4 years while dealing with the country’s issues.
 Hitler used this to his advantage and set up a fascist state that had
concentration camps for all those who opposed the new regime and made
sure all heard him through controlling the media.
 In 1934, Hitler became sole leader or Germany’s “Fuhrer”
RAQ #2 AND #3
 Why would the German government pass the Enabling
Act that would let Hitler ignore their constitution for 4
years?
 Why did they feel like Hitler needed free reign to rule
as he pleased to “fix” German problems?
HITLER’S CONTROL
 Hitler got rid of books and people who questioned ruling
(ex: teachers) and wrote his own book Mein Kampf*
 He started to control the media and all propaganda
• “Jews are rude, Jews don’t share, Jews have all the money”
• “Jews are evil, Jews brought Germany’s problems, when Jews
are gone things will be better.”
• “Jews are using up to much resources, Jews are rodents living
off the hard working people”
Ger man Ar yan Race
 Hitler loved the Aryan race. He believed the blonde hair blue
eyed children where the perfect race. He wanted to mass
produce this perfect race.
TH R E E S TE P S TO F I NA L
S O L U TI O N
 1. Segregated the Jews from Germans in public (Lebensraum)*
 2. Sent Jews to Ghettos
 3. Concentration camps turned to torturing and killing camps
 Final solution = termination of ALL Jews, the disabled, gays, Jehovah’s
witnesses, gypsies = Genocide
Jewish camp
Jewish ghetto
VS.
RAQ #4
 Why was Hitler’s harsh guidelines okay with the German
people?
 Propaganda was persuasive, Media was controlled so they
didn’t know anything different, Economy was improving, Jews
weren’t liked anyway, Camps = out of sight, out of mind, Jews
were believed to be less than human.
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
 Most camps were located in Germany and Poland. The intention was the wipe
out the entire race.
 Warsaw Ghetto- largest Jewish center 350,000 Jews in less than 2 square miles
 Auschwitz = largest Nazi death camp with a black wall (execution center) and
block 11 (severe torture center).
 By 1942, 80% of the 6 million Jewish people had already died.
Burning bodies
Gas Chamber
Types of Camps
 Concentration camps vs. Termination (death) camps – (both were
unbearable conditions and ended in death for thousands.)
• Concentration camps= work camps, torture camps, transit
camps (deportation), POW camps (prisoner of war)
• Termination camps= mass murder of all Jews often through
burning or gas chambers.
POW Camp
Work Camp
Death Camp
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ9G16kYXuU
• Youtube: “Band Of Brothers Concentration Camp
Clip”
W H Y D I D N ’ T OTH E R
C O U N TR I E S H E L P ?
 1943: Bermuda Conference- State Department had a
conference about what should be done about the Jewish
concern in Europe… Solution was that we (the US and UK)
would win the war so nothing happened.
 They didn’t know how bad it really was, all they knew were
rumors.
RAQ #5 AND #6
 What would be a consequence if another country tried to
end the concentration camps?
 Why didn’t the Allies, who were already against Germany, try
and stop the torture of the Jews?
End of the Hor ror
 In the last few months, SS guards moved camp inmates by train or on
forced marches, often called “death marches,” in an attempt to prevent the
Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners.
 The Allied forces began to encounter and liberate concentration camp
prisoners, as well as prisoners en route by forced march from one camp to
another. The marches continued until May 7, 1945, the day the German
armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.