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What was the Holocaust?
• As the Allies fought toward Berlin, they discovered a shocking and horrible sight.
• Scattered throughout German-occupied Europe were camps where Jews and other groups had been murdered.
• It became known as the Holocaust.
What was the Holocaust?
• The Holocaust is where the Nazis killed about 6 million Jewish people and over 5 million other groups of people like Russians, Polish, and Gypsies.
• Over 11 million people were killed in all
The roots of the Holocaust
• Adolf Hitler’s intense racism (strong dislike and prejudice) of the Jewish people.
• He blamed them for many problems Germany was facing
• He said that Jews were inferior (lower) people.
• At first Hitler was only discriminating against the Jews, but after the war began he set out to murder every Jew under German rule.
What caused the Holocaust?
• Anti-Semitism – Hitler opposed to or discriminating against Jews
• Aryan Supremacy – Hitler’s belief in an Aryan master race
• Attempt to rid Europe of all Jews – tactics were used to discriminate against the Jewish people
Anti-Semitism
• This was the core of Hitler’s belief – he discriminated against Jews
• The Jewish people were blamed for many of Germany’s problems.
• Before the war began – Hitler boycotting their stores, taking their property, and discriminating against them
Aryan Supremacy
• Hitler had a vision of an Aryan “Master Race”
• The Aryans were a gentile (non-Jewish) people of Northern European ancestry
• Hitler would rule Europe by enslaving or eliminating Slavs, Jews, Gypsies, and other “subhuman” (lesser) peoples.
The Systematic (Organized) attempt to rid Europe of all Jews
• Once Hitler had conquered much of Europe he took the discrimination to another level
• Hitler’s “Final Solution” – called for Jews and others to be killed
• Men, women, and children were moved to death camps (concentration camps) where they were killed.
Tactics Against Jewish People
• Boycott • Threats• Segregation• Imprisonment• Concentration Camp • Example – Auschwitz • Over 6 million Jews
were executed in these camps
Liberation of the Concentration Camp
• In 1945 Allied troops discovered and liberated (freed) the camps
• Nazi leaders were brought to trial
• Called The Nuremberg trials
• Many Nazi leaders were sentenced to death and others received prison time