2. Introduction

Definition of
the word
“Holocaust”
Literally defined
as “Completely
burnt sacrifice to
God”.
Mass murder of
the 6 million of
Jews and other
“undesirables”.

3. The victims

 Jews
 Homosexuals
 Gypsies
 The disabled
 Jehovah’s witnesses

4. “Once I really am in
power, my first and
foremost task will be
the annihilation of the
Jews, until all
Germany has been
completely cleansed of
Jews.”
-Adolf Hitler, 1922

5. The Aryan race

 Master race in Hitler’s
view.
 Race which would
dominate a continent.
Aryans
AngloSaxons
Nordics
Germanics

6. Night of broken glass

November 9, 1938
 Violence against the Jews broke out across the Reich
 Destruction of about 7000 Jewish businesses
 30 000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration
camps

7. Wannsee conference

On January 20, 1942, the villa was the
site of the Wannsee Conference, at
which the decision to proceed with the
"Final Solution to the Jewish Question"
was announced.
Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the
Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)

8. Concentration &
Death camps

9. Life conditions
hard labor.
 Prisoners were forced to do
 They were starved to death.
 Had no control on their own lives.
 Forced to obey the Nazis.
 Many of them died as a result of maltreatment.

10. Auschwitz

 Largest death camp
during The Holocaust
 Prisoners were forced to
give up all belongings
 Children were killed
upon arrival
 An estimated 1,000,000 to
2,500,000 people were
exterminated at the camp

11. Arbeit Macht Frei


12. Gas chamber
 Walls stained blue because of the gas used

13. Cremation Oven
Room at Auschwitz

14. Number of deaths
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