THE HOLOCAUSTPART I
1935-42
VOCABULARY: EVENTS & TERMS HOLOCAUST GENOCIDE “THE FINAL SOLUTION” KRISTALLNACHT UNTERMENSCHEN CONCENTRATION CAMP EXTERMINATION CAMP
VOCABULARY: PEOPLE & GROUPS
ADOLF HITLER HEINRICH HIMMLER RHEINHARD HEYDRICH ADOLF EICHMANN JOSEF MENGELE EINZATSGRUPPEN AUSCHWITZ
MAJOR EVENTS
1935: NUREMBURG LAWS PASSED November 9, 1938: KRISTALLNACHT 1939: “THE FINAL SOLUTION” BEGINS 1942: THE WANSEE CONFERENCE
PERSECUTION BEGINS WHEN?
1933: HITLER BECOMES GERMAN CHANCELLOR CALLS FOR REMOVAL OF ALL “NON-ARYANS” FROM
GOV’T. JOBS REASONS:
LONG HISTORY OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN GERMANY HITLER BLAMED JEWS, PARTLY, FOR WW I LOSS CONVENIENT SCAPEGOAT HITLER’S OWN PERSONAL ANIMOSITY TOWARDS JEWS
RESULT? 1935: NUREMBURG LAWS PASSED DID WHAT?
JEWS STRIPPED OF PROPERTY & CIVIL RIGHTS IF ATTEMPTING TO ELAVE GERMANY
ALL JEWS HAD TO WEAR A STAR OF DAVID ON CLOTHING AS I.D.
IMAGES FROM THE NUREMBERG RALLY, 1934 & 1935
PERSECUTION GROWS NOV. 9, 1938: KRISTALLNACHT
WHAT? JEWISH BUSINESSES, HOMES, SYNAGOGUES, INDIVIDUALS ATTACKED
WHO? NAZI PARTY MEMBERS RESULT? MANY JEWS TRY TO FLEE GERMANY PROBLEM? SOME COUNTRIES REFUSE TO TAKE
JEWISH IMMIGRANTS SO WHAT? NAZI PARTY DECIDES TO BEGIN
SYSTEMIC ELIMINATION OF JEWS IN GERMAN-CONTROLLED AREAS
EFFECT? 1939: THE “FINAL SOLUTION” ADOPTED GOAL: “THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALL JEWERY
FROM EUROPE”
“WHEN JEWISH BLOOD SPURTS FROM THE KNIFE, THINGS GO TWICE AS WELL”
NAZI S.A. CHANT
PROPAGANDA MOVIE POSTER:“DER EWIGE JUDE”,GERMANY, 1940
GERMAN ANTI-JEWISH POSTER
MOVIE POSTER,“JUD SUSS”,GERMANY,1940
JEWISH SYNAGOGUES BURNED IN GERMANY
JEWISH SHOPKEEPER SURVEYS STOREDAMAGE, BERLIN, 1938
NAZI S.A. MEN CLOSE JEWISH SHOP
STAR OF DAVID,REQUIRED BY LAW TO BE WORN BY ALL JEWS
JEWISH COUPLE, POLAND, 1940 WEARING STAR OF DAVID ARMBANDS
THE FINAL SOLUTION WHEN? 1939-45 WHERE? APPLIED TO ALL NAZI-OCCUPIED EUROPE AREAS? DEPENDED ON SIZE OF NAZI CONQUESTS
Ex: GREATEST EXTENT OF NAZI OCCUPATION IS 1942 HOW?
MASS EXECUTIONS (EINZATSGRUPPEN KILLINGS) GHETTO ISOLATION OF JEWS, ETC. FORCED LABOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS EXTERMINATION CAMPS
WHO’S TARGETED? ALL UNTERMENSCHEN (DEFINE) JEWS HOMOSEXUALS GYPSIES PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY DISABLED COMMUNISTS
EUTHANASIA NAZI IDEOLOGY BELIEVED IN A VERSION OF…
CHARLES DARWIN’s NATURAL SELECTION THEORY (define) “SOCIAL DARWINISM” (define)
RESULT? NAZIS BELIEVE INFIRM, HANDICAPPED ARE NOT CAPABLE OF LIVING A
“VALUABLE” / PRODUCTIVE LIFE THEREFORE…
THEY WERE A DRAIN ON SOCIETY’S RESOURCES THEY ONLY WEAKENED THE NATION
RESULT? NAZIS WANT TO…
ELIMINATE “THE WEAK” (KILL THEM) BREED / PROCREATE MORE OF THE STRONG
HANDICAPPED / INFIRM ARE NOW TARGETED FOR KILLING HOW?
“EUTHANIZED” @ MENTAL INSITITUTIONS IN GERMANY INJECTIONS, “ GAS VANS”, etc.
NAZI ORDER ALLOWING EUTHANIZATION OF HANDICAPPED,1939
HARTHEIM CASTLE, AUSTRIA
NAZI POSTER:“BECAUSE GOD CANNOT WANT THE SICK & AILING TO REPRODUCE”
NAZI PROPAGANDA POSTER: “LIFE WITHOUT HOPE”
NAZI PROPAGANDA POSTER: “MENTALLY ILL NEGRO (ENGLAND), 16 YRS. IN AN INSTITUTION COSTING 35,000 REICHSMARKS”
MAJ. GENERAL KARL BRANDT, S.S.,DIRECTOR,“T-4” NAZI EUTHANASIA PROGRAM,1942
MAJOR GENERALKARL BRANDT, S.S.REICH COMMISSIONER FOR HEALTH AND SANITATIONAS ALLIED PRISONER, 1945
THE FINAL SOLUTIONA. AREAS HARDEST HIT:
1. EASTERN EUROPE:-Poland-Russia
2. GERMANYB. WHY?:
1. THOSE AREAS HAD HIGHEST POPULATION OF JEWS, OR…2. THOSE AREAS WERE MORE EASILY INVADED EARLY IN WAR
C. WHO CONDUCTED MOST OF THE FINAL SOLUTION?1. S.S. (Schutzstaffel) CAMP GUARDS
2. S.S. “EINZATSGRUPPEN” (“Special Action Groups”)3. “WAFFEN – S.S.” (SS Front line combat units)4. POLICE IN CONQUERED TERRITORIES5. “GESTAPO” UNITS - German Secret Police
***MOST EXTERMINATION / FINAL SOLUTION ACTIONS WERE DONE BY S.S. GROUPS
GERMAN MILITARY POLICE WITH JEWISH POLE, POLAND, 1939
NAZI OFFICERS FORCE JEWISH MEN TO CLEAN STREET, POLAND, 1939
SS MEN HARRASSING JEWISH MAN, POLAND, 1939
JEWISH WOMEN ON EDGE OF DITCH BEFORE BEING SHOT
EINZATSGRUPPEN EXECUTIONS, UKRAINE, 1941
S.S. EINZATSGRUPPEN ENLISTED MAN SHOOTING MOTHER & CHILD, UKRAINE, 1941
UKRAINE, SOVIET UNION 1941
AFTER THE HOLOCAUST RESULTS:
MOST EUROPEAN JEWS ARE… KILLED DISPLACED
“ZIONISTS” NOW MAKE STRONGER EFFORTS TO ESTABLISH STATE OF ISRAEL
EUROPEAN JEWISH POPULATION IS DECIMATED
TOTAL KILLED: APPROXIMATELY 6 MILLION
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