Holocaust slide show (mcd) 2

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The Holocaust When? What? Where? Why? How?

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WHEN? The Holocaust essentially began in 1933 when Adolph Hitler was put in power and ended when the German and Axis Powers were defeated by the Allies in 1945. German SS officer in 1933 The Allies finally liberate camps in 1945

The Holocaust : 

The Holocaust Definitions:1 -- a sacrifice consumed by fire 2 -- a thorough destruction especially by fire (i.e. a nuclear holocaust 3 -- the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II WHAT?

WHAT? (continued) : 

WHAT? (continued) HOLOCAUST is the persecution, enslavement, and murder of 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany. The Nazis also targeted millions of people from other groups they considered inferior: -political opponents -Communists -homosexuals -some Christian religions -Gypsies

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WHAT? (cont.) Starting in 1933, Hitler and the Nazis passed laws to limit the rights of Jews living in Germany. The laws gradually took away more and more rights Eventually, Jews were gathered up into urban ghettos where they were isolated from the rest of society

Jewish civilians being gathered into the Warsaw ghetto in Poland : 

Jewish civilians being gathered into the Warsaw ghetto in Poland

WHAT? (cont.) : 

WHAT? (cont.) Starting in 1933, Hitler and the Nazis passed laws to limit the rights of Jews living in Germany. The laws gradually took away more and more rights Eventually, Jews were gathered up into urban ghettos where they were isolated from the rest of society Then they were shipped to concentration camps once the war broke out. Here they did manual labor, often to help the German war effort

WHAT? (cont.) : 

WHAT? (cont.) Starting in 1933, Hitler and the Nazis passed laws to limit the rights of Jews living in Germany. The laws gradually took away more and more rights Eventually, Jews were gathered up into urban ghettos where they were isolated from the rest of society Then they were shipped to concentration camps once the war broke out. Here they did manual labor, often to help the German war effort In the final years of the war, many of these camps were turned into death camps where thousands of Jews were murdered each day.

Selection at the Auschwitz ramp in 1944, where the Nazis chose whom to kill immediately and whom to use as slave labor for medical experimentation. The entrance to the main camp is in the background. : 

Selection at the Auschwitz ramp in 1944, where the Nazis chose whom to kill immediately and whom to use as slave labor for medical experimentation. The entrance to the main camp is in the background. Between 1.1 and 1.6 million people were killed at Auschwitz; over 90% of the victims were Jews.

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Shoes are sometimes all that remains of the victims. They are on display in the Holocaust Museum in D.C.

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Local townspeople brought to see the camps

WHERE? : 

Concentration camps were in almost any country that Germany had taken over BUT the extermination camps were located in Poland and Germany WHERE? Entrance to Auschwitz

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Auschwitz

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WHERE?

WHY? : 

Anti-Semitism = expressed hostility to Jewish people and their religion. Hitler blamed Germany’s loss of World War I on the Jewish people and thought they were part of an inferior race In order to create his “German master race,” he needed to destroy this group of people. WHY?

HOW? : 

You decide HOW?