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The Holocaust
The Holocaust
 On April 7, 1933, Hitler ordered
the removal of all “Non-Aryans”
from government jobs.
 This was the start of racial
purification and the road to the
Holocaust.
 In all 12 million would die in
Europe, over half of which were
Jews.
The Holocaust
Although
Jews were not the
only target, they did become
the central feature in Hitler’s
plan of extermination.
The Holocaust
Hitler
convinced many that
Jews were responsible for
Germany’s loss in WWI and
economic collapse.
Nuremberg laws stripped Jews
of citizenship, jobs, and
property.
The Holocaust
 Kristallnacht – “Night of Broken
Glass” November 9-10, 1938, storm
troopers march all over Germany
destroying Jewish businesses,
burning synagogues & killing 100
Jews, arresting 30,000.
 Afterward the Nazis blamed it all
on the Jews.
The Holocaust
 Hitler’s “Final Solution” was
enacted in 1939.
 This was a policy of genocide or the
deliberate and systematic killing of
an entire population.
 Hitler’s “security squadrons” (or
SS) rounded up Jews & shot them
or placed them in ghettos.
WANNSEE CONFERENCE
On January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi Party
and German government officials led by Reinhard
Heydrich gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of
Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the
implementation of what they called the "Final
Solution of the Jewish Question.”
 The Final Solution" was the code name for the
systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of the
European Jews.
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Concentration Camps
Concentration Camps
THE GERMANS BUILT A NETWORK OF 20,000
CONCENTRATION CAMPS FROM 1933-1945
THESE CAMPS WERE DESIGNED FOR A VARIETY
OF PURPOSES
THEY WERE USED FOR TRANSFERS, HOLDING,
LABOR, EXPERIMENTS, AND EXTREMINATIONS
MANY OF THE EXTREMINATION CAMPS WERE IN
POLAND, BUT ALL CAMPS HAD THEIR SHARE
KILLINGS
Concentration Camps
AUSCHWITZ-POLAND, 1.1 MILLION DIED, BODIES
WERE DESTROYED IN THE CREMATORIUM,
ESTIMATED 20K WERE KILLED PER DAY
TREBLINKA-POLAND, 870K DIED, DUAL CAMP,
SLAVE LABOR FACILITY ALONG WITH AN
EXTREMINATION FACILITY
BELZEC-POLAND, 500K DIED, LITTLE ELSE IS
KNOWN, DOCUMENTS WERE DESTROYED, AND
ONLY KNOWN SURVIVORS
AUSCHWITZ
Concentration Camps

SOBIBOR-POLAND, 250K KILLED, IT WAS
PRIMARILY AN EXTERMINATION

CHELMNO-POLAND, 150K KILLED, THE
GERMANS USED MODIFIED VANS AS GAS
CHAMBERS

MAJDANEK-POLAND, 80K KILLED, USED
AS A SLAVE LABOR
CHELMNO
Concentration Camps

BUCHANWALD-GERMANY, 55K DIED, SLAVE
LABOR CAMP, MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS-MAINLY
VACCINES FOR TYPHUS(DISEASE CARRIED BY
LICE AND FLEAS)

DACHAU-GERMANY, 32K DIED, WAS THE MODEL
CAMP, GAS CHAMBERS AND CREMATORIUMS

EBENSEE-AUSTRIA, 20K DIED, SLAVE LABOR,
INHUMANE TREATMENT OF WORKERS MADE IT
ONE OF THE WORST FACILITIES
BUCHANWALD
Concentration Camps

THROUGHOUT THESE 9 MAJOR
CAMPS APPROXIMATELY 3,057,000
WERE KILLED OUT OF THE 12+
MILLION THAT DIED AT ALL THE
CAMPS COMBINED
The Final Stage
 The final solution did not reach it’s
final stage until 1942.
 To mass slaughter and starvation
the SS added poison gas.
 Mass Extermination was the result
of six death camps being built in
Poland.
The Final Stage
 Auschwitz was the largest death
camp.
 Prisoners were brought in and
paraded by doctors.
 Those strong enough to work were
put to labor.
 The others were put to death that
day.
THE NUREMBERG WAR
TRIALS
The
discovery of Hitler"s
death camps led the Allies to
put 24 surviving Nazi leaders
on trial in the southern
German town of Nuremberg.
THE NUREMBERG WAR
TRIALS
The
defendants included
Hitler"s most trusted party
officials, government
ministers, military leaders,
and powerful industrialists.
THE NUREMBERG WAR
TRIALS
Each defendant at the
Nuremberg trials was
accused of one or more of the
following crimes:
Crimes Against the Peace
—planning and waging an
aggressive war
THE NUREMBERG WAR
TRIALS
Crimes —acts against the
customs of warfare, such as the
killing of hostages and prisoners, the
plundering of private property, and
the destruction of towns and cities
 Crimes Against Humanity —the
murder, extermination, deportation,
or enslavement of civilians
 War
NUREMBERG TRIALS
The best-known of the Nuremberg trials was the
Trial of Major War Criminals, held from November
20, 1945, to October 1, 1946.
 Twenty-four individuals were indicted, along with
six Nazi organizations determined to be criminal
(such as the “Gestapo,” or secret state police).
 In the end, the international tribunal found all but
three of the defendants guilty. Twelve were
sentenced to death.
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NUREMBERG TRIALS
Following the Trial of Major War Criminals, there
were 12 additional trials held at Nuremberg. These
proceedings, lasting from December 1946 to April
1949
 Of the 185 people indicted in the subsequent
Nuremberg trials, 12 defendants received death
sentences, 8 others were given life in prison and an
additional 77 people received prison terms
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NUREMBERG TRIALS
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There is no statues of limitation on these
War Crimes
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Nazi officials are still hunted