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Bell Ringer – March 15 & 16 • Where was the Battle of Britain fought? • Which battle was considered a turning point in the east – Germany had to retreat? • Which battle is considered the worst military defeat in U.S. history?
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Bell Ringer – March 15 & 16
• Where was the Battle of Britain fought?
• Which battle was considered a turning point in the east – Germany had to retreat?
• Which battle is considered the worst military defeat in U.S. history?
The The HolocaustHolocaust
1933-1945
The Coming of the Holocaust
Adolf Hitler wrote the book Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”) where he discussed his hatred for the Jews.
Anti-Semitism: hostility towardsAnti-Semitism: hostility towardsor discrimination against Jews.or discrimination against Jews.
Hitler’s Plan Begins
Hitler believed that his Aryan race (a German who has blonde hair and blue eyes) was superior to all other races.
This belief is called Aryan Supremacy.
Anti-Semitism in the 1930’s
Avoiding Jewish-owned businesses was encouraged.
Tormenting Jews was allowed.
Discrimination Against Jews
Burning of the Books
April 6, 1933 Nazis conducted a campaign to burn all books
in Germany which did not correspond with Nazi
ideology.
(Ex. Albert Einstein, Helen Keller, and Hemmingway)
The Night of the Broken GlassNov. 9 to
Nov. 10, 1938
KristallnachtIt was a night filled with chaos when Germans burned synagogues (Jewish temples) and broke the windows of Jewish stores.
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the murder of six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. Mass killings began in June 1941 with the shooting of Jewish civilians during the German invasion of the Soviet Union. At the end of 1941, the Germans began deporting Jews to killing centers in occupied Poland. By May 1945, about two out of every three Jews in Europe had been murdered.
Animated Map
GhettosGhetto: section of the city where Jews were forced to live. Ghetto: section of the city where Jews were forced to live. Ghettos were separated by walls and barbed wire.Ghettos were separated by walls and barbed wire.
Ghettos
•Example: Warsaw, Poland
•Forced Labor
•Starvation
•Disease
Concentration Camps
• Concentration Camps: places built by the Nazi’s where they could kill Jews systematically.
• Examples:
Auschwitz, Dachau,
and Buchenwald• Also called Death
Camps and Extermination Centers
Roll Call in front of the kitchen.
Selection at Auschwitz
“Final Solution”
The “Final Solution”
was the Nazi plan
to exterminate all the
Jewish people.
Genocide is the deliberate destruction of a racial, political,
or cultural group.
Experiments
Safari Montage : GenocideChapter 5: Genocide: The Holocaust
DeathsCountry Pre-War Jewish
PopulationNumber of
Jewish DeathsPercent Killed
Poland 3,300,000 3,000,000 90%
Germany and Austria
240,000 210,000 90%
France 350,000 90,000 26%
Total (19 countries
included)
8,861,800 5,933,900 67%
Survivors Liberation began in January of 1945
Nuremburg War Crimes Trial
• After the war, 22 Nazi leaders were put on trial
• Accused of violating the laws of war and committing “crimes against humanity”.
Causes of The Holocaust
H itler’s belief in the master race
A nti-Semitism
T otalitarianism & Nationalism
R acist genocide
E conomic depression blamed on the Jews
D efeat of Germany in WWI blamed on the Jews
