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HOLOCAUST
Important Terms
 Eugenics
– Race betterment through breeding
 Euthanasia
– Mercy killing
 Sterilization
– Inability to reproduce
 Ghetto’s
– Segregated areas of a city
Nazi’s
 Adolf Hitler
 Reinhard Heydrich
– Oversaw Wannsee Conference
 Heinrich Himmler
– Commander of SS and Gestapo
– 2nd in Germany
 Joseph Goebbels
– German Propaganda Minister
 Adolf Eichmann
– Oversaw the Final Solution
Goebbels
Eichmann
Himmler
Heydrich
Germany
 Germany
– Depression 1920’s and 1930’s
– Looked for a way out someone to blame
– Hitler writes Mein Kampf
• Talks about
– Jews are inferior
– Jews didn’t fully support Germany in WWI
– Could be blamed for troubles in Germany
Aryan Race
 Ideal German
 Blond hair, blue eyes
1939-1945
 TARGETS (WHY?)
– Jews
– Slavs and Poles
– Gypsies (Roma and Sinti)
– Handicapped (mentally and physically)
– Jehovah’s Witnesses
– Enemies of the state
– Homosexuals
1939-1945
 11 million total
– 6 million Jews (2/3rds Jewish population)
– 5 million others
STAGES OF THE
HOLOCAUST
 1. Sterilization
 2. Euthanize handicapped
 3. Final Solution
Sterilization
 Cause inferior people to stop reproducing
 Injections and radiation
 Law for Prevention of Hereditarily
Diseased Offspring
– July 1933
– Sterilize mentally and physically handicapped,
epileptic, blind, deaf, or alcoholics
– 400,000 by wars end
T-4 Euthanasia Program
 1939-1941
– Put people out of their misery and save
Germany from paying for them
– Deformed, disabled, handicapped, and
mentally ill
– 200,000
Nuremberg Laws (1935)
 Laws to restrict rights of Jews
– 1. Jews could not marry Germans (Hard labor)
– 2. No longer citizens, no sexual relations with
Germans, no vote, and no public office
(Imprisonment)
– Defined a Jew as a person with 1 Jewish
grandparent
Ghettos
 Areas designated for Jews in major cities
– Warsaw was the biggest
 Warsaw had a major uprising
Kristallnacht
 Night of Broken Glass
 State sponsored actions against Jews and
Jewish businesses
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Nov.8th- 9th 1938
200 killed
30,000 to camps
7,000 stores destroyed
1,574 synagogues destroyed
Final Solution
 Final Solution of the Jewish Problem
 Genocide
 Rounded up and put into Ghettos
 Wait for deportation
– 1. Used bullets and injections (Too $)
– 2. Work or starve to death (Too slow)
– 3. Gas Chambers
Camps
 Concentration
– Labor and Death
• Work for war effort until replaced or die
Camps
 Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland)
– 1.5 million
 Treblinka (Poland)
– 800,000
 Belzec (Poland)
– 436,000
 Majdanek (Poland)
– 235,000
 Sobibor (Poland)
– 170,000
 Chelmno (Poland)
– 152,000
Auschwitz
Auschwitz
Gas Chambers
 Started out with exhaust from cars
 Moved on to Zyclon B (rat poison)
– Efficient and cheap
Auschwitz
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Nuremberg Laws
List concentration camps (locations)
Kristallnacht
Targets of the Holocaust
How many people were killed? Jews?
List the 2 major ghettos
Sterilization program was called?
Euthanasia Program was called?
Main stages of the Holocaust
Final solution planner
Final solution implementer
German Propaganda Minister
Wannsee Conference