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TermVocabulary Nuremberg Laws Concentration Camps

Essential Question

How did Nazi leaders try to carry out their “final solution”?

Who did the Nazis target?

Jews and other “undesirable” people

Death awaited the weak, outspoken, or “racially impure”

Goal:Create a “master race” of German or Aryan people

How were this people singled out?

Jews:

Had their German citizenship revoked ل

Banned from marrying Germans ل

Forced to have Jewish sounding names ل

Had their passports were specially لmarked with a “J”

Were required to wear the Star of David ل

However, this was only the beginning of the unspeakable acts yet to come…

What about people in other countries?

Hitler also had a strong dislike for Slavic people

- Poles- Czechs

- Ukrainians- Slovenes- Russians

As German armies pushed in the Slavic lands of Eastern Europe, Hitler removed these people…

Their homes were given to German settlers

Slavs were sent to forced labor camps

What was the point of all this?

Hitler planned to “Germanize” the world

HEINRICH HIMMLER (Hitler’s advisor) estimated that 30 million Slavs might have to die to reach this goal

Himmler also headed Hitler’s Schutzstaffel or SS (secret police force)

What was the “final solution”?

Final Solution = Hitler’s plan to rid Europe of its Jews

An example of GENOCIDE

Killing people from the same racial, political, or cultural

group

Hitler wanted nothing less than the total destruction of all people of Jewish ancestry

How did Hitler make this a reality?Nazis:

Rounded up Jews into overcrowded areas

Attempted to starve Jews

Sent Jews to prison or CONCENTRATION CAMPS

In these camps, healthy individuals worked until they

dropped dead from exhaustion, disease, or starvation

That does not sound very efficient?When these extermination methods

proved too slow, Nazi officials began to use death squads to:

Round up Jews in captured villages

Shoot them

Bury bodies in mass graves

There were also death camps (like Auschwitz) where Jews were sent for the sole purpose of being killed

Essential Question

How did Nazi leaders try to carry out their “final solution”?

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