The Holocaust

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The Holocaust

• 1933-1945

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Why?

• Hitler considered Jews an internal enemy
• Felt they did not support Germany in WWI
• Hitler wanted a pure Germany
• Belief in the superiority of the Aryan Race

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Who

• Who?
• Jews
• Slavs
• Roma
• Disabled and Mentally ill
• Homosexuals
• Freemasons and Jehovahs Witnesses
• Political activists
• Christians

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What?

• Jews removed from society
• Lost jobs
• Forbidden to own farms
• Lawyers were disbarred
• Newspaper editors
• Excluded from schools and universities
• Nuremberg Laws
• Lost their citizenship
• Lost all civil rights

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Cont.

• Kristallnacht Night of broken glass
• Nov. 9, 1938
• Jews attacked and property vandalized
• 100 killed, 30,000 sent to camps
• Shops and synagogues destroyed
• Madagascar Plan
• Move all Jews to island of Madagascar
• Was not carried out

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Concentration Camps

• Auschwitz
• Largest of the camps
• Located in Poland
• 1.1-1.6 million deaths
• Gas chambers
• Starvation
• Forced labor
• Disease
• Executions
• Medical experiments

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Medical Experiments

• Used human subjects
• Pressure chambers study effect of high and low
  air pressure on humans
• Drug testing
• Effects of freezing/cold temperatures
• Attempted to change childrens eye color by
  injecting chemicals into eyes
• Amputations
• Other surgeries including at least 1 attempt to
  create Siamese twins

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Total Deaths

• 6 million Jews
• 2-3 million Slavs
• 2 million Poles
• 100,000-200,000 Romas
• 100,000 Mentally ill
• 10,000 homosexuals, 1000s more were
  rehabilitated
• Freemasons and Jehovahs Witnesses
• 80,000-200,000
• Political activists unknown
• 5 million Christians
• Total 15-16 million people

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People Responsible

• Hitler
• Heinrich Himmler
• Oversaw camps and death squads
• Committed suicide after being arrested
• Ernst Kaltenbrunner
• Highest ranking SS leader to face trial
• Adolf Eichmann
• the architect of the Holocaust
• Was in charge of transportation of Jews
• Fled to Argentina after war Israeli agents
  tracked him down and arrested him
• Tried, convicted, and hanged for 15 criminal
  charges

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Claims that it did not happen

• Nazis had no official policy on exterminating
  Jews
• Nazis did not use gas chambers
• 5-6 million deaths is grossly exaggerated
• Survivor testimonies are filled with
  incosistencies
• Nazi confessions extracted through torture
• Documentary evidence is fabricated
• Stories were a myth created by Allies to de
  monize Germans
• Treatment of Jews no different than what Allies
  did to their enemies
• The Holocaust the alleged extermination of
  some six million Jews (most of them by gassing)
  is a hoax and should be recognized as such by
  Christians and all informed, honest and truthful
  men everywhere."

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Proof it did happen

• Written documents
• Eyewitness testimony
• Photographs
• The camps themselves
• Inferential evidence if they were not killed,
  where did they go?
• Holocaust denial is illegal in 13 countries

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