1. The Holocaust
Germany vs. The World

2. Nazi Ideology
 Nazi’s persecuted
many different types
of people
 Jews (known as anti-
Semitism)
 Homosexuals
 Blacks
 Disabled
 Gypsies
 Slavic people
(Russians)
 Jehovah’s
Witness’

3. Nuremburg Laws (September
1935)
 Put in force shortly
after the Nazi’s took
power in Germany
 took citizenship away
from all the German
Jews
 marriage between a Jew
and a German was
outlawed
 decreed that if you had
one Jewish grandparent
you were Jewish and
couldn’t hold office or
vote

4. Nuremburg Laws
 Jews were forbidden from
employing German
servants under the age of
35
 Had to adopt Jewish
sounding names
 passports marked with a
red “J”
 even with the Nuremburg
Laws many Jews chose to
remain in Germany, feeling
that things had to improve

5. Kristallnacht
 Night of Broken Glass
 November 7, 1938
 A Jewish refugee shot
and killed a German
diplomat in Paris seeking
revenge for the
deportation of Jews from
Germany to Poland
 as a retaliation for killing
Hitler ordered his
minister of propaganda
Joseph Goebbels to
stage attacks against the
Jews to appear to be a
popular reaction to the
news of the murder

6. Kristallnacht
 90 Jews were killed, 2500 businesses
destroyed, and 180 wrecked synagogues
 Gestapo arrested 20,000 wealthy Jews
 Confiscated insurance payments for those
Jews whose businesses were ruined
 Nazi minister of the interior said later on
that the German Jewry would have to pay
for their “abominable crimes”

7. 
Kristallnacht
Jewish refugees tried to flee after
Kristallnacht
 some went to the U.S.
 Albert Einstein
 However there were
circumstances that did not allow
many Jews to immigrate to the
US
 Nazi orders prohibited the
taking out of more than $4 out
of Germany
 Many countries refused to accept
Jewish immigrants
 others fled to Amsterdam,
Switzerland, France, Netherlands
 attempts to fake passports and
other immigration allowances
made it increasingly harder for
them to get out of Germany

8. Final Solution
 January 20, 1942 15 Nazi leaders met at
the Wannsee Conference to decide the
fate of the Jewish population
 decided to take them to detention camps or
“concentration camps”
 healthy people would work as slave labor until
they died from exhaustion or poor nourishment
 sick individuals would be sent to extermination
camps attached to concentration camps in which
they would be killed in massive gas chambers

9. Concentration Camps
 the first Nazi camp
was for political
prisoners in 1933
 Buchenwald was
one of the first and
largest
concentration camp

10. Extermination Camps
 most were in Poland to
kill more Jews
efficiently
 these camps included
Treblinka and
Auschwitz
 the camps obliterated
hundreds of thousands
of Jews, many up to
12,000 a day in the gas
chambers Medical
experimentation on
children

11. Medical Experimentation
 Experiments to
ensure the survival
of Axis soldiers
 High altitude
 Hypothermia
 Salt water to
drinking water

12. Medical Experimentation
 Treatment  Bone grafting
 Antidotes for mustard
methods for
gas and phosgene gas
injuries and  medical experimentation
illnesses sustained sought to advance the
in the field racial and ideological
tenets of the Nazi
 malaria, typhus, worldview (Dr. Mangele)
tuberculosis,  Sterilization
typhoid fever,  Usage of twins
yellow fever, and  Eye pigmentation
 Noma- gangrene deterioration
infectious hepatitis

13. Shoes from Jews were sent
to Germany to be resold
and reused
The spoils of the victims: gold
teeth and dental work, collected

14. Reasons for Holocaust
 German people’s sense of injury
after WWI
 Hitler’s control over the German
nation
 Lack of strong tradition of
representative government in
Germany
 German fear of Hitler’s secret police
 Long history of anti-Jewish
prejudice and discrimination

15. Mein Kampf
 We are going to read exerpts of Hitler’s
autobiography Mein Kampf together.
 You will need to discuss with a partner.
 You will reflect on what you read today.

16. Escape from Sobibor
 We are going to
compare this movie to
the first one that we
watched.