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THE HOLOCAUST
The Holocaust
 Nazi’s propose new racial order
 Aryans- master race of Germanic peoples
 All non-Aryans were inferior: especially Jewish
 Holocaust- mass slaughter of Jews and other groups
 (Poles, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Africans, Mentally-Handicapped)
 Holocaust begins
 Jews became targets of German failures
 Nuremberg Laws- took away rights of Jews
 Citizenship, marriages
Kristallnacht-“night of broken glass”
 German diplomat shot in Paris
 By Hersel Grynszpan- for revenge for family being deported to
Poland
 Germans launch attack on Jews
 This night will be known as kristallnacht
 Kristallnacht became a major policy of Jewish persecution
 Flood of Refugees
 Jews will flee Germany
 Hitler called it a “Jewish problem”
 Other countries will turn down the influx of Jewish immigrants
 Isolating the Jews
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Hitler will move Jews into Ghettos- segregated Jewish areas
Ghettos were then sealed off with barbed wire & stone walls
Some Jews will form resistance groups in ghettos
Hitler’s
Jews will struggle to keep traditions
Impatience
The “Final Solution”
 Hitler grows impatient
 Plan- “final solution” becomes plan for genocide- mass
killing of an entire people
 Plan for conquest depended on purity of Aryan race
 Killings begin
 Hitler’s SS will hunt down Jews
 Shot prisoners in pits
 Jews not reached by killing squads went to concentration
camps
 Final Stage
 Extermination camps built with gas chambers
 Auschwitz- largest of the camps
 The Survivors
 11 million will die (6 million Jews)
Liberation from
concentration camps
The death march
CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS
 Why did Hitler begin mass killing of Jews?
 Starvation and disease was not killing them fast
enough.
 What was the difference between a concentration
camp and an extermination camp?
 Concentration camps were slave-labor prisons.
Extermination camps were for mass murder.