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The HolocaustThe Holocaust
““The Final Solution”The Final Solution”
Hitler’s ViewsHitler’s Views
Jewish were to blame:Jewish were to blame:– German Loss in WWIGerman Loss in WWI– Economic DepressionEconomic Depression– Jewish conspiracy of World DominationJewish conspiracy of World Domination
Hitler’s Aryan RaceHitler’s Aryan Race– Perfect “Super” HumansPerfect “Super” Humans– Pure German RacePure German Race– Blonde Hair, Blue EyesBlonde Hair, Blue Eyes
Nazi – Jewish PropagandaNazi – Jewish Propaganda
Nazi – Jewish PropagandaNazi – Jewish Propaganda
Nazi – Jewish PropagandaNazi – Jewish Propaganda
Jewish PersecutionJewish Persecution
Nuremberg LawsNuremberg Laws– Laws against the Jewish peopleLaws against the Jewish people
Jewish were no longer citizensJewish were no longer citizens
Couldn’t marry GermansCouldn’t marry Germans
Wearing of Yellow StarsWearing of Yellow Stars
Kristallnatch (Crystal Night) – Night of Broken Kristallnatch (Crystal Night) – Night of Broken GlassGlass– November 9November 9thth – 10 – 10thth, 1939, 1939– Destruction of Homes and BusinessesDestruction of Homes and Businesses– 20,000 Jewish people sent to concentration camps 20,000 Jewish people sent to concentration camps
Racial ExaminationsRacial Examinations
Destruction of the JewsDestruction of the Jews
Hitler’s ExterminationHitler’s Extermination
Destruction of the JewsDestruction of the Jews
In the beginning used bulletsIn the beginning used bullets
Destruction of the JewsDestruction of the Jews
TrucksTrucks
The Final SolutionThe Final Solution
The Wannsee ConferenceThe Wannsee Conference
Hitler and Himmler plan the “Final Hitler and Himmler plan the “Final Solution” of the Jewish problemSolution” of the Jewish problem
Systematic destruction of the Jewish Systematic destruction of the Jewish populationpopulation
Used Used IndustrializationIndustrialization to process the to process the Jewish peopleJewish people
The Final SolutionThe Final Solution
Targets of the “Final Solution”Targets of the “Final Solution”– HomosexualsHomosexuals– GypsiesGypsies– HandicappedHandicapped– JewishJewish
Goal: To eradicate the Jewish population Goal: To eradicate the Jewish population in Europein Europe
The Final SolutionThe Final Solution
The ProcessingThe Processing1.1. Able bodied men would be put to workAble bodied men would be put to work
2.2. Once deemed unable to work sent to the Once deemed unable to work sent to the “showers”“showers”
3.3. Then sent to crematorium or buried in mass Then sent to crematorium or buried in mass gravesgraves
The Final SolutionThe Final Solution
Men WorkingMen Working
The Final SolutionThe Final Solution
"Like the adults, the kids were only a mere bag of bones, "Like the adults, the kids were only a mere bag of bones, without muscles or fat, and the thin skin like pergament without muscles or fat, and the thin skin like pergament scrubbed through and through beyond the hard bones of scrubbed through and through beyond the hard bones of the skeleton and ignited itself to ulcerated wounds. the skeleton and ignited itself to ulcerated wounds. Abscesses covered the underfed body from the top to Abscesses covered the underfed body from the top to the bottom and thus deprived it from the last rest of the bottom and thus deprived it from the last rest of energy. The mouth was deeply gnawed by noma-energy. The mouth was deeply gnawed by noma-abscesses, hollowed out the jaw and perforated the abscesses, hollowed out the jaw and perforated the cheeks like cancer". Many decaying bodies were full of cheeks like cancer". Many decaying bodies were full of water because of the burning hunger, they swelled to water because of the burning hunger, they swelled to shapeless bulks which could not move anymore. shapeless bulks which could not move anymore. Diarrhoea, lasting for weeks, dissolved their irresistant Diarrhoea, lasting for weeks, dissolved their irresistant bodies until nothing remained ....." bodies until nothing remained ....."
The Final SolutionThe Final Solution
The Final SolutionThe Final Solution
In the EndIn the End– Estimated Total Dead 11,000,000 – Estimated Total Dead 11,000,000 –
17,000,000 17,000,000