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The Holocaust
January 28, 2010
• Holocaust: Nazi attempt to kill all
Jews
– Mass murder of all Jews &
“undesirables”
– Today called - genocide
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Gay
Twin
Gypsy
Disabled
Mental illness
Criminal
Speak out against Hitler
“Anti-social”
Aryan who married/ dated a Jew
• Begins as soon as Hitler takes
power (1933)
WHY???
• Racist Nazi Ideas
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Aryan myth - superior to all
Blame Jews for EVERYTHING
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Communism
Inflation $$$
World War I loss
1. Hitler urged Germans to
boycott Jewish owned
businesses
2. No gov’t jobs or jobs in
banking, stock exchange, law,
journalism, or medicine
3. Nuremburg Laws
– Deny citizenship to Jews
– Ban marriage between
Jews & non-Jews
– Segregated Jews at every
level
4. Propaganda
– Newspapers attack on Jews
– Children taught in schools
that Jews “polluting”
Germany
– Comic books
• 1933 - 1937
– 130,000 Jews flee Germany &
Austria
– Artists, doctors, scientists (Albert
Einstein)
• Why didn’t others leave too???
– Not welcome in other countries
– Immigration limits (Great
Depression - jobs)
• 1933 - 1st concentration camp
built
– Dachau
– Not designed to kill
– Turn Jews into useful members for
Germany
• Tattoo numbers on arm
• Vertically striped clothes
• Triangle
– Pink - gay
– Yellow - Jew
– Red - prisoner
• Torture/ kill with no fear of
reprimand
• Starve/ disease
• Medical experiments
– No anesthesia
– Kill/ deform
• Places conquered
(Poland, Denmark, etc.)
– Force Jews into ghettos
– Construct concentration
camps
• 1942 - Wannsee
Conference
– New design for camps
– Plan to kill 11 million Jews
• Auschwitz
– South Poland
• Gas: carbon monoxide or
insecticide, OR
• Mass execution with guns
• Take what want & burn in
crematory
– Human fat - soap
– Hair - wigs, slippers,
mattresses, etc.
– Cash, gold fillings, wedding
rings, etc.
• How many died???
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MILLIONS (6 - 60 million)
Records burned
Bodies in ashes
No real number could be known