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The holocaust

What was it and how did it start?Slide2

On Jews and their Lies…

First to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will see a stone or cinder of them.

Second I advise their houses also be razed and destroyed

Third I advise that all their prayer books and

Talmudic

writings, in such idolatry, lies, cursing, and blasphemy being taught, be taken away from them

Fourth I advise that their

rabbis

be forbidden to teach henceforth on pain of loss or limb

My essay I hope will furnish a person with enough material not only to defend himself against the blind

venemous

Jews, but also to become the foe of the Jews…that are all surely

possesed

by all devilsSlide3

Martin Luther

The following quotes were from a book written by Martin Luther entitled “On the Jews and their Lives”

This book is just one example of common anti-Semitism far before the time of Hitler

Whereas Hitler did not create anti-Semitism, he is a victim of both being influenced by and creating historySlide4

What was the holocaust?

The Holocaust was a systematic state sponsored persecution and extermination of Jews and other “undesirable” people that occurred from 1933-1945

While the majority of those who died were Jews, other targets were:

Roma (Gypsies)

The DisabledSlavic People

Communists

Homosexuals

Jehovah WitnessesSlide5

How many people died?

It is estimated that as many as 11 million people died during the Holocaust

Jews: 5,600,000-6,250,000

Gypsies: 222,000-250,000

The Disabled: 70,000Slavic People: 3,700,000

Homosexuals: 12,000

Jehovah

Witnesses: 2,500

Its estimated that 1.5 million children were killed during the HolocaustThe Holocaust is largely believed to be the largest genocide in modern historySlide6

How DID IT START?

Early Nazi

Antisemitism

Antisemitism

was not created by the Nazi. Europe had a long history of mistreating the Jewish population before the Nazis came to power in 1933The Nazis, however, perpetuated this hatred and racist attitudes within Germany grew rapidly

Under the influence of Hitler, the Nazi Party started hosting Jewish book burnings and Anti-Jewish BoycottsSlide7

The Nuremburg laws

In 1935 the Nazi Party passed a set of laws classifying what Jews were and forbidding them from having children or relationships with German people

The laws also boycotted Jewish shop successfully putting many out of business

Furthermore, Jewish people could not simply convert to another faith to escape these laws. According to the Nuremburg Laws, being Jewish was genetic and not based off faith

Later in the year the law was extended to Gypsies and people of African decentSlide8
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Kristallnacht

On November 9-10, 1938, German Nazis carried out attacks on both German persons and properties

In less than two days over 1000 synagogues were burned, 7500 Jewish buildings were ransacked, and 91 Jews were killed

30,000 Jews between 16 and 60 were sent to concentration camps in Germany. At this point such camps simply held Jews and political prisoners and no killing took place

November 15 Jews were banned from schools, by December they were banned from most public placesSlide10

WORK CAMPS IN POLAND

Shortly after the invasion of Poland in September 1939, the Nazis began setting up labour camps

Within these camps thousands of Jews died due to brutal conditions, starvation, exhaustion, and exposure

These deaths were of a conscious effort as the Nazis followed an “annihilation through work” policy

Following the passing of the “Final Solution,” being able to work was the only reasons the Nazis would keep you alive, and therefore, prisoners literally worked themselves till deathSlide11

The final solution

The “Final Solution” is the title given to the Nazi decision to exterminate the Jews

While it is uncertain when the Nazi’s decided to exterminate the Jews, massive intentional killings of Jews began in 1941 as the Nazis invaded Europe

After the

Wanasee Conference in January 1942, the Nazis began the systematic exportation of Jews to six different extermination camps

The “Final Solution” would be responsible for killing 2/3 of the Jewish populationSlide12

Other “solutions”

The Madagascar Plan

Up until 1940, the Jews had considered sending the entire Jewish population to Madagascar

The entire operation would be funded by the confiscation of Jewish possessions by the Germans

Einsatzgruppen

(2,000,000+ Deaths)

Starting in 1941 as the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, a group of soldier followed the Axis army killing Jews and Soviet politicians

Gas Vans (7000+ Deaths)

After visiting the Soviet Union, the Nazis started using gas vans to exterminate the Jews.The vans had sealed off backs which were filled with carbon monoxided created by the trucksSlide13

FROM WORK CAMPS TO DEATH CAMPS

Starting in 1941, the Nazis began killing Jews in gas chambers. The first people to be exterminated were those who could not work: children, the old, and the sick

At certain points during the Holocaust, concentration camps such as Auschwitz were killing up to 12,000 Jews a day

The gas chambers used a pesticide known as

Zyklon B commonly used for delousing clothes and ships

Bodies were burned after the gassings as the Nazis planned to keep these killings a secretSlide14

WHERE WERE THESE CAMPS?