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Bell Ringer – March 15 & 16
• Where was the Battle of Britain fought?
• Which battle was considered a turning point
in the east – Germany had to retreat?
• Which battle is considered the worst
military defeat in U.S. history?
The Holocaust
1933-1945
The Coming of the Holocaust
Adolf Hitler wrote the book Mein
Kampf (“My Struggle”) where he
discussed his hatred for the Jews.
Anti-Semitism: hostility towards
or discrimination against Jews.
Hitler’s Plan Begins
Hitler believed that his
Aryan race (a German
who has blonde hair and
blue eyes) was superior
to all other races.
This belief is called
Aryan Supremacy.
Anti-Semitism in the 1930’s
Discrimination Against Jews
Tormenting Jews was allowed.
Avoiding Jewish-owned
businesses was encouraged.
Burning of
the Books
April 6, 1933 Nazis conducted
a campaign to burn all books
in Germany which did not
correspond with Nazi
ideology.
(Ex. Albert Einstein, Helen
Keller, and Hemmingway)
The Night of the Broken Glass
Nov. 9 to
Nov. 10, 1938
Kristallnacht
It was a night filled with chaos
when Germans burned
synagogues (Jewish temples) and
broke the windows of Jewish
stores.
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the murder of six million Jews
and millions of others by the Nazis and their
collaborators during World War II. Mass killings
began in June 1941 with the shooting of Jewish
civilians during the German invasion of the Soviet
Union. At the end of 1941, the Germans began
deporting Jews to killing centers in occupied Poland.
By May 1945, about two out of every three Jews in
Europe had been murdered.
Animated Map
Ghettos
Ghetto: section of the city where Jews were forced to live.
Ghettos were separated by walls and barbed wire.
Ghettos
•Example: Warsaw, Poland
•Forced Labor
•Starvation
•Disease
Concentration Camps
• Concentration Camps: places built by the Nazi’s where
they could kill Jews systematically.
• Examples:
Auschwitz, Dachau,
and Buchenwald
• Also called Death
Camps and
Extermination
Centers
Roll Call in front of the kitchen.
Auschwitz Entrance
Selection at Auschwitz
“Final Solution”
The “Final Solution”
was the Nazi plan
to exterminate all the
Jewish people.
Genocide is the deliberate destruction of a racial, political,
or cultural group.
Experiments
Safari Montage : Genocide
Chapter 5: Genocide: The Holocaust
Deaths
Country
Pre-War Jewish
Population
Number of
Jewish Deaths
Percent Killed
Poland
3,300,000
3,000,000
90%
Germany and
Austria
France
240,000
210,000
90%
350,000
90,000
26%
Total
(19 countries
included)
8,861,800
5,933,900
67%
Survivors
Liberation began in January of 1945
Nuremburg War Crimes Trial
• After the war, 22 Nazi
leaders were put on
trial
• Accused of violating
the laws of war and
committing “crimes
against humanity”.
Causes of The Holocaust
H itler’s belief in the master race
A nti-Semitism
T otalitarianism & Nationalism
R acist genocide
E conomic depression blamed on the Jews
D efeat of Germany in WWI blamed on the Jews