The Holocaust first phase

The death machinery created for the Holocaust took the lives of SIX MILLION

JEWS and FIVE MILLION OTHER PEOPLE

The strategy of the Nazis was to first separate the Jews from everyone else. In 1935, NUREMBERG LAWS defined

who was a JEW.

Although Hitler insisted Jews were a race, in the end RELIGION was used as

the criteria of Jewishness.

What mattered was RELIGION STATED BY GRANDPARENTS. In Europe,the government collects taxes to

support churches and synagogues. Everyone routinely declares his or her

religion. Government had records.

Anyone with at least two Jewish grandparents was declared a JEW.

A person who had TWO JEWISHGRANDPARENTS and did NOT

practice Jewish religion wasa MISCHLING Second Class

If a person had THREE JEWISH GRANDPARENTS and did NOT practice

the Jewish religion, he was aMISCHLING First Class

In Germany, Jewish teachers,

collegeprofessors and

other professionals lost their jobs.

Jewish children were

eventually forced into Jewish Schools

Jews had their passports andother identity

papers stamped with a J

In Germany November 9, 1938, is called the Beginning of the Holocaust.

Nazi thugs burned Jewish synagoguesand homes, beat up Jews, and broke

window of Jewish shops.

Called KRISTALNACHT = Night of the Broken Glass

Once Jews were separated from rest ofpopulation, transport to the ghettos

began.

Meanwhile Hitler hadInvaded the USSRIn June 1941. TheGerman army wasFollowed by EINSATZGRUPPEN(special squads)

who were taskedWith shooting Jewish

communitees.

The Einzarzgruppen killed about a million people but the Nazis were dissatisfied.

The method was SLOW and PUBLIC.

It “wasted bullets” and was “hardon the heroes doing the shooting.”

The Nazis looked at the gassingtechniques developed in their

Euthanasia Program.

First the Nazis tried GAS VANS.

Gas Vans were used to clear Camp atCHELMNO.

This was also too slow so the Nazis movedto fixed gas chambers which could kill several

hundred people at a time.

Three camps—Treblinka, Belsac, andSobibor—were used to kill Polish Jews.

They were ONLY for death.

Last stage was a combination of Death Camp and Work Camp.

Auschwitz and Maidanek were thesekinds of camps. Auschwitz became

more infamous.