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The Holocaust

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

The Holocaust

Chapter 32: Lesson 3

Main Idea
During the Holocaust, Hitler's Nazis killed 6 million Jews and 5 million other " non-Aryans"

Why It Matters Today
The violence against the Jews during the Holocaust led to the founding of Israel after World War II

Why It Matters Today
The violence against the Jews during the Holocaust led to the founding of Israel after World War II

The New Racial Order

Germanic people /ARYANS - " Master Race"

The racist message eventually led to the HOLOCAUST - the systematic mass killing of Jews and other groups judged inferior by the Nazis

Hatred for Jews had deep roots in European History

Nuremberg Laws 1935 - deprived Jews of their rights to German citizenship and forbade marriages between Jews and non-Jews.

Herschel Grynzpan -avenge his father's deportation, shot a German diplomat living in Paris.

Night of Broken Glass

"Kristallnacht"

Emigration as a solution to what Hitler called "the Jewish problem"

German Foreign Minister
" We all want to get rid of our Jews. The difficulty is that no country wishes to receive them"

Isolating the Jews

The "ghettos"

The Final Solution

... a program of genocide

Protecting Racial Purity
- eliminate other races, nationalities or groups that are inferior ( subhumans)

The Killing Begins

SS moved from town to town to hunt down Jews

to be eliminated-
...gypsies, Poles, Russians, homosexuals, insane, disabled, ill...

The Final Stage

The " Final Solution" reached its last stage in 1942

JEWS KILLED

THE SURVIVORS
- some 6 million European Jews died
- less than 4 million survived

Photo by Thomas Hawk