Download Final Solution

1. Why did Hitler
carry through with
it? How did it fit
with his visions?
a. Tactic 1 = 1935 
b. Tactic 2 = 1938 
c. Concentration camps
being built &
boycotting is
occurring in 1930s
• 3rd and Final
Tactic was…
– “Final Solution”
• To the “Jewish
Question”
– Genocide
• January 1942
• where Hitler’s “Final Solution” was presented
• Final
Solution =
annihilation of
Jewish people
– Genocide
• Reinhard
Heydrich,
Heinrich
Himmler 
and the SS
would run it
• The systematic killing of substantial numbers of
people on the basis of ethnicity, religion,
political opinion, social status, or other
particularity.
“After all, who remembers
the Armenians?”
• What is the question?
• Jews have a history of
being a “question” in
Europe…when?????
• 1939 = Germans realize
during WW2 that they
have a new Jewish
Question =
– how to get rid of Jews
from the beginning of
Hitler’s 1000 Year
Reich?
• Previous actions have
caused emigration…not
enough
• Einsatzgruppen (part of the SS) in
charge of Final Solution
• Jews from
countries
occupied by
Germany would
be captured
• Three possible
steps/stages you
could go through
during the Final
Solution
• Stage 1 =
Ghetto 
– Temporary
Jewish quarters
in cities
• Move out of
ghettos and sent
to either…
– Concentration
Camps 
• Stage 2
– Death Camps
• Stage 3
• Concentration
Camp
–Work camp
–Jews produced
goods for
German Empire
–Plan for Jews
here?
–Schindler’s List
• Extermination
Camp
–Purpose more for
mass murder
–6 major ones in
Eastern Europe
–Auschwitz in
Schindler’s List
• 2000 people killed
every 30 minutes
• Not just Jews who were exterminated, but
non-Aryans
• Jews = about 6 million
• Russians = about 3 million
• Polish = 1 million
• Gypsies = 350K…considered inferior race
• Disabled = 250K
• Jehovah’s Witnesses…refused to join army
or salute Hitler
• Homosexuals
• Freemasons…supported Jewish conspiracy
to rule the world
• The mass murder is at its
worst around 1942 (?) and
continues until end of the war
• Some
resisted…
• Some
helped
Nazis as
collaborators
• Some just
ignored it…
pretended it
was not
there
•  by 1945
• From March 1944 to the end of the
war, the USA had capability to bomb
Auschwitz, but didn’t
• Cambodia
1970s
• Guatemala
1980s
• Rwanda
1994
• Bosnia 1990s
• Darfur 2000s
• When will it
end?