Transcript The Holocaust

The Holocaust
“The Final Solution”
Hitler’s Views
Jewish were to blame:
– German Loss in WWI
– Economic Depression
– Jewish conspiracy of World Domination
Hitler’s Aryan Race
– Perfect “Super” Humans
– Pure German Race
– Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes
Nazi – Jewish Propaganda
Nazi – Jewish Propaganda
Nazi – Jewish Propaganda
Jewish Persecution
Nuremberg Laws
– Laws against the Jewish people
Jewish were no longer citizens
Couldn’t marry Germans
Wearing of Yellow Stars
Kristallnatch (Crystal Night) – Night of Broken
Glass
– November 9th – 10th, 1939
– Destruction of Homes and Businesses
– 20,000 Jewish people sent to concentration camps
Racial Examinations
Destruction of the Jews
Hitler’s Extermination
Destruction of the Jews
In the beginning used bullets
Destruction of the Jews
Trucks
The Final Solution
The Wannsee Conference
Hitler and Himmler plan the “Final
Solution” of the Jewish problem
Systematic destruction of the Jewish
population
Used Industrialization to process the
Jewish people
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Targets of the “Final Solution”
– Homosexuals
– Gypsies
– Handicapped
– Jewish
Goal: To eradicate the Jewish population
in Europe
The Final Solution
The Processing
1. Able bodied men would be put to work
2. Once deemed unable to work sent to the
“showers”
3. Then sent to crematorium or buried in mass
graves
The Final Solution
Men Working
The Final Solution
"Like the adults, the kids were only a mere bag of bones,
without muscles or fat, and the thin skin like pergament
scrubbed through and through beyond the hard bones of
the skeleton and ignited itself to ulcerated wounds.
Abscesses covered the underfed body from the top to
the bottom and thus deprived it from the last rest of
energy. The mouth was deeply gnawed by nomaabscesses, hollowed out the jaw and perforated the
cheeks like cancer". Many decaying bodies were full of
water because of the burning hunger, they swelled to
shapeless bulks which could not move anymore.
Diarrhoea, lasting for weeks, dissolved their irresistant
bodies until nothing remained ....."
The Final Solution
The Final Solution
In the End
– Estimated Total Dead 11,000,000 –
17,000,000