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EQ: Can genocide be prevented?
Learning Target: analyze the “Final
Solution”
Do Now: Complete the
“How much do you
already know?”
question sheet (be
prepared to discuss)
Prelude to the “Final Solution”
• By 1939, half of
Germany’s 500,000
Jewish people had
emigrated to escape Nazi
persecution.
• In 1940, all Jews had to
have their passports
stamped with the letter ‘J’
and had to wear the
yellow Star of David on
their jacket or coat.
Prelude to the Final Solution
• In 1939, Germany
invaded Poland which
had a much larger
population of 3
million Jewish people.
• In 1941, Germany
invaded Russia which
had a population of
5 million Jewish
people.
First Tactic used : Einsatzgruppen
(assassination)
The Final Solution
• In January 1942,
Heinrich Himmler the
head of the SS soldiers
organized the plan for the
Final Solution
Women, children, the
old & the sick were to
be sent for ‘special
treatment.’
On arrival they would
go through a
‘selection.’
Moved to
concentration
camps
The young and fit would go
through a process called
‘destruction through work.’
How was the Final
Solution going to
be organised?
Shooting wasted bullets
--Gas chambers were
more effective
Move into Ghettoes
Where were the Death Camps built?
The work of the
Einsatzgruppen
Why do you think that they located them here?
Children Dying of Starvation in
the Warsaw Ghetto
SS Tactics
• The SS guards who murdered the Jews were
brainwashed with Anti-Semitic propaganda.
• Naked, dirty and half starved people look like
animals, which helped to reinforce the Nazi
propaganda.
• The SS used to train their new guards by
encouraging them to set fire to a pit full of live
victims – usually children.
Entrance to Auschwitz
Notice how it has been built to resemble a railway station
Auschwitz Orchestra
Map of Auschwitz
New Arrivals
‘Showers’
‘Destruction
Through
Work’
Auschwitz from the air
Notice how the Death
camp is set out like a
factory complex
The Nazis used
industrial methods to
murder the Jews and
process their dead
bodies
Method of Killing: Gas
Chambers
• The Nazis would force
large groups of
prisoners into small
cement rooms and let
acidic gas fill the room
• These gas chambers
were sometimes
disguised as showers
or bathing houses.
The SS would try and pack up to 2000 people into this gas chamber!!!!
The outside of the Gas Chamber
Notice the Ovens easy located near the Gas Chambers
Processing the bodies
• Specially selected
Jewish people were
used to to remove the
gold fillings, rings and
hair of people who had
been gassed.
Rings taken off the bodies at
Buchenwald
The Ovens at Dachau
Dead bodies waiting to be processed
Shoes waiting to be processed
Taken inside a huge glass case in the Auschwitz Museum. This represents one
day's collection at the peak of the gassings, about twenty five thousand pairs.
The Results of the Holocaust
• The Nazis managed to kill at least 6 million Jews as
well as about 4-5 million gypsies, slavs and the
disabled.
• In 1945 and 1946, as a result of the Nuremberg
Trials, 12 Nazi leaders were sentenced to death for
their war crimes.
What tactics did the Nazis use to get the
Jews to leave the Ghettos?
Deception
The Jews were told
that they were going
to ‘resettlement
areas’ in the East.
In some Ghettos
the Jews had to
purchase their
own train tickets.
They were told
to bring the
tools of their
trade and pots
and pans.
New arrivals at the
Death camps were
given postcards to
send to their friends.
Tactics
Starvation
The Jews in the
Warsaw Ghetto were
only fed a 1000
calories a day .
Terror
A Human being needs
2400 calories a day to
maintain their weight
The SS publicly shot people
for smuggling food or for
any act of resistance
Hungry people are
easier to control