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HOLOCAUST
The Final Solution
1933 - 1945
HOLOCAUST
• RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF 6 MILLION JEWS
• 4-6 MILLION OTHERS (“INFERIORS” - SLAVS, GYPSIES, POLES, THE INSANE, POLITICAL PRISONERS)
• ANTI-SEMITISM - LONG HISTORY IN GERMANY AND EUROPE
NUREMBERG LAWS - 1935
• BOYCOTTS OF JEWISH BUSINESSES
• VOTING RIGHTS DENIED
• FORCED FROM JOBS
• PASSPORTS STAMPED WITH “J”
• MARRIAGE TO ARYANS FORBIDDEN
• EXPELLED FROM SCHOOLS
• STAR OF DAVID ON CLOTHING
KRISTALLNACHT - 1938
• “NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS”
• SHOPS DESTROYED• BUSINESSES LOOTED
AND BURNED• JEWS BEATEN• DONE BY POLICE
DRESSED AS CIVILIANS
WAR ESCALATES
• WAR AGAINST JEWS WORSENS
• TRAPPED AND ISOLATED
• MORE RESTRICTIONS
• FORCED INTO GHETTOS
• FORCED LABOR
• CONCENTRATION CAMPS
FINAL SOLUTION
• WANSEE CONFERENCE (1942)
• BELIEVED TO BE THE SITE OF THE PLAN TO ELIMINATE ALL JEWS IN EUROPE
• CODE WORDS - RELOCATION, WORK CAMPS, JEWISH PROBLEM
• GAS IS SUGGESTED - ZYKLON B - MORE EFFICIENT
THE PROCESS
• GHETTOS EMPTIED - TOLD THEY WERE GOING TO WORK CAMPS
• THOUSANDS DIED FROM EXPOSURE, HUNGER, DISEASE
• SOME SENT IMMEDIATELY TO DEATH
• GUARDS - TORTURED & HUMILIATED
THE PROCESS (CONT’D)
• WEAK WERE SENT TO “SHOWERS” WHERE THEY WERE GASSED
• SENT TO CREMATORIUMS (OVENS)
• GOLD FILLINGS, HAIR REMOVED
• PERSONAL BELONGINGS TAKEN
• HORRIBLE MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS (DR. JOSEPH MENGELE)
THE DEATH CAMPS
• Auschwitz (Poland) 2-2 1/2 million
• Chelmo
• Bergen-Belsen
• Mauthausen
• Sobibor
• Treblinka
Hitler and Goring
Jews Forced to Wear Yellow Star
A Star For The Children, Too
Deportation to Auschwitz
Train to the Death Camps
Dachau
Crematorium
Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
“Prisoners”
Bergen-Belsen
Buchenwald
Victims of Buchenwald
Buchenwald
Buchenwald
Liberation of Buchenwald
Mass Graves for Prisoners
Uncovered Grave
Crematorium
Liberation of Auschwitz
Liberation of Dachau
U.S. Soldiers Execute Nazis
Survivors!
Nuremberg Trials