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THE HOLOCAUST
THE TERROR
OF ADOLF HITLER
HOLOCAUST is defined as:
•THE DELIBERATE
EXTERMINATION OF AN
ETHNIC OR RACIAL GROUP
•HITLER’S MASTER PLAN was
to create a new world order
where all Europeans would
serve the German (Aryan)
“Master Race.”
• All minorities, but especially Jews,
were considered inferior & therefore
would be either German slaves or
would be exterminated.
• The S.S. were given the responsibility
for the mass killings.
• Over 10 million died in Nazi death
camps
– 6 million of this number were Jews
(1.5 million were Jewish children)
– Others included Czechs, Poles,
Soviets, gypsies, homosexuals, etc.
• THE WORST
DEATH CAMPS
WERE IN
POLAND:
– AUSCHWITZ -the worst of
all, 3-4
million died
at this camp
– BERGENBELSEN
• DACHAU
(Germany) –
medical
experiments
SYMBOLS OF THE HOLOCAUST
PRISONER
RECEPTION
Mauthausen
Labor Camp
Austria
This is where prisoners selected for slave labor were processed. Often people would have to
wait outside naked in any weather. Here they would have to give up all their remaining
possessions: money, jewels, even wedding rings and photos. In short, the prisoner was left with
only one possession, his or her body. In this building planned humiliation was performed on
the confused and terrified new arrivals. Men and women were forced to stand on stools, in a
room crowded with people while heads, armpits and other intimate parts of one's body were
shaved by male prisoners and where numbers were tattooed in each arm. It is also where
prisoners already in the camp were deloused., this because of the raging typhus epidemics.
THE GAS
CHAMBER
This chamber in Mauthausen was built in the basement, below the sick
quarters. It was completed and used by the spring of 1942. On the other
hand, the sick quarters were only half completed at war's end. The SS would
cram 120 persons into this chamber, seal the doors and pump in carbon
monoxide. Inefficient as it was, the prisoners often died of suffocation
rather than the gas. “Consequently, when the doors were opened to remove
the bodies, it was found that the dead were covered not only with excrement
and blood, but their eyes protruded from their heads and their bodies
stiffened into grotesque positions.”
The smaller of the two ovens
at Mauthausen and its
accompanying smoke stack.
6,000 awaiting disinfection at Mauthausen
S.S.
TORTURE
GUINEA
PIGS FOR
NAZI
EXPERIMENTS
Experiment to determine
pressure at which one’s
lungs will explode --for benefit of German
pilots
THE
DISSECTING
TABLE
Among many
other pseudoscientific
"experiments",
SS doctors
removed organs
from living
people, bottled
and stored them
on shelves in the
dissecting room.
They skinned prisoners with interesting tattoos and sold them as book covers,
gloves, luggage and lamp shades. One physician selected two prisoners with
near perfect teeth and used their heads as paperweights on his desk. Extreme
experimentation will also be done on pregnant women….to determine how to
abort the pregnancies.
Irrigation of
brain…no idea
why
Determining how long it takes
to freeze a person to death
DEATH AT THE
HANDS OF THE
S.S. IN POLAND
Average German
soldier could not do
this…the elite, the
SS, will be put in
charge.
BERGEN
BELSEN
When the Supreme Comander of the Allied Forces, Gen. DWIGHT
D. EISENHOWER, found the victims of the concentration camps,
he ordered to have photographs taken, and he also had the German
population of the surrounding cities taken to the concentration
camps to see the horror, and in some cases had them bury the dead.
AND THE REASON FOR
THIS?
EISENHOWER
EXPLAINED IT THIS
WAY:
``TO COLLECT AS
MUCH PROOF, FILMS,
TESTIMONIES.......,
BECAUSE THE DAY
WILL COME WHEN
SOME ‘SON OF A **’
WILL SAY THAT THIS
NEVER HAPPENED.´´
SS AT BERGEN-BELSEN
Carries a victim for burial in
a mass grave. Allied
commanders were bent on
teaching the German people
a lesson. Citizens of nearby
towns & captured Germans
who had run the camps were
required to load the corpses
into trucks & wagons &
carry them to burial grounds
deliberately chosen in
prominent places to remind
the German people of the
Nazi atrocities.
‘ALL THAT IS NEEDED
FOR EVIL TO SUCCEED
IS THAT DECENT
HUMAN BEINGS DO
NOTHING’.
Edmund Burke
SHOES OF THE MURDERED AT AUSCHWITZ
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
November 1945
24 Nazis – Death Sentence for 12