The Holocaust

1
The Holocaust

• 7.2.3
• Unit 5, Chapter 26, Section 3

2
Adolf Hitler

• Believed in the superiority of the Aryan race of
  people
• All other races were inferior
• One of his Grandmothers was supposedly Jewish
• According to his ruling, at least three of the
  Grandparents had to be Jewish

3
Why the Jewish?

• Hitler considers them to be not pure like
  Aryans
• Germanys economic problems linked to supposedly
  Jewish-controlled banks
• Their lack of support (according to Hitler)
  caused the loss of the Great War

4
The Final Solution

• The Nazis plan for the genocide of the Jewish
  population
• Genocide Extermination or total death

5
Heinrich Himmler and the SS

• Himmler The leader of the SS
• SS Schutzstaffeln the secret police of the
  Nazis
• Carried out many of the Nazi partys violent
  actions

6
Methods of Murder

• Jews are placed in ghettos
• Poorly fed, poorly sheltered
• The Einsatzgruppen follow the advancing German
  army and murder Jews in towns
• Death Camps

7
Concentration Camps (1939-1945)

• Jewish people were loaded onto train cars and
  shipped to these camps
• Some are sent to labor camps
• The rest (about 70) are sent to gas chambers or
  are subjected to medical experiments

8
The Camps

• Auschwitz Birkenau
• Chelmno
• Treblinka

9
In Review

• Approximately six million Jews killed
• Approximately 11 million total killed
• Nearly two out of three European Jews were killed
• At the time, the allies did not realize the
  extent of the atrocities