11 million victims Undesirable because of W ho they were What they did Jews Boycotted in April 1933 Nuremberg Laws Kristallnacht 6 million Jews killed Sinti and Roma Nomadic tribal people ID: 579746
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Victims of the HolocaustSlide2
11 million victims
Undesirable
because of:
W
ho they were What they didSlide3
Jews
Boycotted in April 1933
Nuremberg Laws
Kristallnacht
6 million Jews killedSlide4
Sinti and Roma
Nomadic, tribal people
Viewed as asocial and racially inferiorSlide5
Anti-Romani laws started before 1933:
Prohibited travel
Forced-labor camps
“Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Defects”
“Law Against D
angerous
H
abitual
C
riminals”Slide6
First resettled to ghettos
By 1938, deported to camps
Roma of Russia, Poland, and Balkans executed by Einsatzgruppen
220,000-500,000 victimsSlide7
Poles and Slavs
“The destruction of Poland is our primary task. The aim is not the arrival at a certain line but the annihilation of living forces…I have placed my death head formations in readiness…with orders to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space that we need.”
Adolf HitlerSlide8
Focus on Polish Catholic majority
Mass murders
Confined in prisons and concentration campsSlide9
Destruction of Polish culture (Germanization)
Polish children limited to elementary education:
“The sole goal of this schooling is to teach them simple arithmetic, nothing above the number 500; writing one’s name; and the doctrine that it is divine law to obey the Germans…I do not think that reading is desirable”---HimmlerSlide10
Children were
kidnapped
and
adopted by Germans
SS Lebensborn programOver 50,000 kids from Poland aloneSlide11
6 million Polish “nationals” were killed during the war
Half were JewishSlide12
Political Dissidents
In the beginning, most concentration camp inmates were political prisoners
Dachau in particular was a camp for political prisonersSlide13
Dissenting Clergy
Between 1939-1945, 3,000 Polish clergy were killed in concentration campsSlide14
Handicapped
“Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases” (July 1933)
Forced sterilization
300,000-400,000 were sterilizedSlide15
Later,
H
itler approved in 1939 euthanasia for the incurable (Operation T4)
Medial experts determine health level
Doomed bused to killing centersCremated bodies, falsified death certificates, sent condolencesSlide16
Handicapped were viewed as unnecessary costs and damaging to the war effort
Over 70,000 killed in the T4 program
200,000-250,000 were murdered all togetherSlide17
Jehovah’s Witness
They would not swear allegiance or bear arms for any worldly government Slide18
The religious group was formally banned by 1933
They were harassed and imprisoned
Their children were taken away Slide19
Were allowed the opportunity to escape persecution by renouncing religious beliefs Slide20
10,000 were imprisoned during Nazi rule
2,500-5,000 died in camps or prisons
200 were executed after court trialsSlide21
Homosexuals
Deemed “socially aberrant”
By 1933, Hitler banned all homosexual and lesbian organizationsSlide22
Viewed as a problem to the German birthrateSlide23
5,000-15,000 were sent to concentration camps
“forgotten victims” Slide24
African-Germans
African-Germans were considered to be part of the “Jews’ secret plan” to destroy the white race
About 500 African children were forcibly sterilized