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The Holocaust
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
The Holocaust
Who Is Responsible?
The Backdrop
The Holocaust
Who Is Responsible?
The Treaty of Versailles helped create an
environment for the Holocaust in Germany.
The Holocaust: Who Is Responsible?
GERMANS BLAMED FOR WWI
• Reparations
• Land Taken Away
• Lost Savings
• Worthless Salaries
• High Grocery Bills
• Hunger Riots
The Holocaust
Germany After WWI / Inflation
• 1921 - 4 MARKS = $1
• 1923 - 4,000,000,000 = $1
WITH GERMAN MISERY AT A
HIGH POINT, OPPOSITION
GROUPS SWELL IN GERMANY.
ADOLPH HITLER’S
RISE TO POWER
• Nov., 1923 BEER HALL
PUTSCH
• HITLER
JAILED
• DICTATES
MEIN KAMPF
Mein Kampf
Throughout Mein Kampf, Hitler refers
to Jews as parasites, liars, dirty, crafty,
sly, wily, clever, without any true culture,
a sponger, a maggot, eternal blood
suckers, repulsive, unscrupulous,
monsters, foreign, menace, bloodthirsty,
avaricious, the destroyer of Aryan
humanity, and the mortal enemy of
Aryan humanity.
1933 - HITLER APPOINTED
CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY
REICHSTAG BUILDING
BURNS
• MAIN GOVERNMENT
BUILDING
• FEBRUARY 27, 1933
• NAZIS SET IT
• EXCUSE TO TAKE
OVER MORE POWER
FOR “GERMAN
SECURITY”
ORANIENBURG 1933
OPENS AS FIRST CONCENTRATION CAMP
1933 ANTI-SEMITISM
“INTRODUCED”
1933 - “GERMANS, DEFEND YOURSELF
- BUY ONLY GERMAN PRODUCTS”
1933 ANNOUNCEMENT TO REICHSTAG
ANTI-SEMETIC POLICY
1936 OLYMPICS
With the Nazi
government in
full view before
the world,
Hitler eases
anti-Semitic
rhetoric and
restrictions on
Jews …
…temporarily
1938 KRISTALLNACHT
During the
Night of Broken
Glass, many
German temples
and businesses
were destroyed.
The actions were
supported by the
Nazi government
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
As horrifying
as things had
become, the
worst still
awaited.
Scenes of the
Holocaust
Concentration Camps,
Heartless Treatment,
and Brutality
Arriving in Ghettos
Warsaw Ghetto
Children in Ghetto
JEWS WORKING FOR THE
ENTERTAINEMENT OF OTHERS
Digging Ditch in Empty Parking Lot
Notice the
soldiers
laughing in
the
background.
Humiliating Treatment
Women Performing Labor
A JEW FORCED TO CUT ANOTHER’S BEARD
Cruelty
AUSCHWITZ
AUSCHWITZ
Buchenwald
Dachau
Jews Digging Their Own Graves
Assembled for Mass Execution
Children Killed
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1945 Death March
The World Learns Of the Holocaust
Holocaust Statistics
3,500,000
3,000,000
2,500,000
Jews
Jews Killed
Survivors
3-D Column 4
2,000,000
1,500,000
1,000,000
500,000
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Poland
USSR
Germany
In total approximately six million Jews in 22
countries were killed during the Holocaust
Nuremberg Trials
Homeland for the Jews
ISRAEL
Holocaust:
Who is Responsible?
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Adolph Hitler?
Nazis?
Germans?
Neighboring
Europeans?
• United States?
• Jews?
• Human Nature?