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The Holocaust: Ch. 16.3
Block February 15/16th, 2012 Bell Work
1. What was the new racial order proposed by
the Nazis? Pg. 502
2. What were the Nuremberg Laws? Pg. 502
3. What were the Jewish ghettos? Pg. 503
Objectives
1. Explain the course of the persecution of the Jews by
the Nazis. (Kristallnacht, ghettos, Final Solution.)
Define each of these terms?
2. What were the results of the Final Solution?
Review
 Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
 U.S. Declares War on Japan
 Japanese Battle Victories
 Battle of Coral Sea ( What did the U.S. Stop, and what
was the new Naval Warfare used?)
 Battle of Midway (How were the Japanese tricked?)
 Guadalcanal (What were the Japanese building?)
10:8:5
 Analyze the policy of pursuing racial
purity, especially against the
European Jews, its transformation
into the Final Solution; and the
Holocaust that resulted in the murder
of six million Jewish civilians.
 Main Idea:
 During the Holocaust Hitler’s Nazis killed six million Jews
and 5 million “non-Aryans”.
 Why it Matters:
 Violence against Jews during the Holocaust leads to the
founding of Israel after WWII.
 Setting the Stage:
 Nazi propose a new racial order.
 Hitler Stated: Aryans were a “master race” Germans
 Misuse of the word Aryan
 All non-Aryan’s, especially Jews were inferior.
What is Aryan?
 Around 1500 B.C.
 Group of people who
migrated from S. Europe to:
 Iran, Turkey, Baltic’s, Slavic,
Armenia, Albania
 ** “ARYANS” Were not really
Germans
-Hitler created a fake history to
make the Germans proud again
and to make them seem special
European Persecution of Jews
 Occurred throughout
history:
 Roman’s
 Russian’s (Pogrom’s)
 Nazi’s
 Some German’s blame
Jew’s for:
 Loss of WWI
 Post WWI German
depression
Why Jews?
 Jews were the minority
 Jews were generally successful in Germany
even during the depression
 Culture was different the many in Germany
 Racism??
Jewish Life Before Hitler
 In Europe: Many Jews lived “normal” lives
before the rise of Hitler
 Most had professional jobs (i.e. Business,
education…)
 Hitler convinced the German community to
discriminate against the Jews.
Nazi’s take Power
 1935 Nuremberg Laws:
 Jews can not be citizens
 Jews can not marry non-
Jews
 Jews jobs limited
 people with Jewish
grandparents who had
converted to Christianity
were defined as Jews.
Jew’s forced to wear “Star of David”
Nazis Seize Opportunity
 Nov. 1938- As a result of the Nuremberg Laws:
- Jewish youth shot a German diplomat in Paris
- Nazis launched attacks on Jewish communities
Kristallnacht
(Night of Broken Glass) Nov. 9, 1938
Storm troopers attack Jewish:
 Homes
 Synagogues
 Businesses
** 100 Jews die
** Violence now
organized by
the state
* Many Jews will
leave Germany
Jew’s flee Germany
 1939
 Many Jews flee to other
Countries
 At first encouraged by
Hitler
 Countries begin to close
their doors
 US
 Great Britain
 France
 Hitler will have to find
another solution
Isolating the Jews
 1940 Jews forced into cities known as Ghetto’s
 Sealed off with brick, barb wire
 Goal, to starve or die from disease
 Jews hung on
 Theater’s produced plays
 Secret schools formed
 Historians kept records
Jew’s forced into Warsaw (Poland) Ghettos
Hitler’s “Final Solution”
 Calls for genocide
 Holocaust:
 Systematic slaughter of Jews and
other groups judged inferior by
Nazi's
***Goal is to purify the human
race
 Other inferior races/nationalities
•Jews
•Criminals
•Gypsies
•Insane
•Poles
•Disabled
•Russian
•Diseased
Killing Begins
 As Nazi’s move
through Euro toward
Russia
 Killing squads round up
Jews
 Separate men, women,
kids, babies
 Executed in pits that
become mass graves
 Other Jews are sent to:
 Concentration Camps
 Slave Labor Prisons
 Most in Germany and
Poland
Firing Squads
 Jews were rounded up
and either:
- Executed by gun fire
- Taken to Labor Camps
- Taken to Death Camps
Labor Camps
1942 Final Stage
 Extermination
Camps
 Death Camps
 Separate strong and
weak
 Move to huge gas
chambers
 Equipped with
cyanide gas
 Killed 6,000 a day
 Bodies moved to
crematoriums
(ovens)
 Largest is
Auschwitz
 6 Million Jews killed
Gas Chambers
Door from early gas chamber
Guarded Prisons
Nazi Guards and Staff
Liberating the Camps
Objectives
1. Explain the course of the persecution of the Jews by
the Nazis. (Kristallnacht, ghettos, Final Solution.)
Define each of these terms?
2. What were the results of the Final Solution?