HOLOCAUST

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HOLOCAUST

• The Final Solution
• 1933 - 1945

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HOLOCAUST

• RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF 6 MILLION JEWS
• 4-6 MILLION OTHERS (INFERIORS - SLAVS, GYPSIES,
  POLES, THE INSANE, POLITICAL PRISONERS)
• ANTI-SEMITISM - LONG HISTORY IN GERMANY AND EUROPE

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NUREMBERG LAWS - 1935

• BOYCOTTS OF JEWISH BUSINESSES
• VOTING RIGHTS DENIED
• FORCED FROM JOBS
• PASSPORTS STAMPED WITH J
• MARRIAGE TO ARYANS FORBIDDEN
• EXPELLED FROM SCHOOLS
• STAR OF DAVID ON CLOTHING

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KRISTALLNACHT - 1938

• NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS
• SHOPS DESTROYED
• BUSINESSES LOOTED AND BURNED
• JEWS BEATEN
• DONE BY POLICE DRESSED AS CIVILIANS

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WAR ESCALATES

• WAR AGAINST JEWS WORSENS
• TRAPPED AND ISOLATED
• MORE RESTRICTIONS
• FORCED INTO GHETTOS
• FORCED LABOR
• CONCENTRATION CAMPS (Dachau first camp)

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FINAL SOLUTION

• WANSEE CONFERENCE (1942)
• BELIEVED TO BE THE SITE OF THE PLAN TO ELIMINATE
  ALL JEWS IN EUROPE
• CODE WORDS - RELOCATION, WORK CAMPS, JEWISH
  PROBLEM
• GAS IS SUGGESTED - ZYKLON B - MORE EFFICIENT

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THE PROCESS

• GHETTOS EMPTIED - TOLD THEY WERE GOING TO WORK
  CAMPS
• THOUSANDS DIED FROM EXPOSURE, HUNGER, DISEASE
• SOME SENT IMMEDIATELY TO DEATH
• GUARDS - TORTURED HUMILIATED

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THE PROCESS (CONTD)

• WEAK WERE SENT TO SHOWERS WHERE THEY WERE
  GASSED
• SENT TO CREMATORIA (OVENS)
• GOLD FILLINGS, HAIR REMOVED
• PERSONAL BELONGINGS TAKEN
• HORRIBLE MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS (DR. JOSEPH MENGELE)

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THE DEATH CAMPS

• Auschwitz (Poland) 2-21/2 million
• Chelmo
• Bergen-Belsen
• Mauthausen
• Sobibor
• Treblinka

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MISCELLANEOUS

• Theresienstadt model camp to show Red Cross
  and press their wonderful conditions
• Sobibor major successful revolt
• Warsaw Ghetto uprising held off the German army
  for several weeks eventually captured and killed

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Hitler and Goring
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Jews Forced to Wear Yellow Star
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A Star For The Children, Too
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Warsaw ghetto
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Child in ghetto factory
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Kristallnacht
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Hartheim euthanasia center
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Map of Camps
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Einsatzgruppen Mobile Killing Squads
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Deportation to Auschwitz
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Train to the Death Camps
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Buchenwald
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Dachau
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Shower
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Ovens
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Belongings
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Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
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Prisoners
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Bergen-Belsen
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Buchenwald
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Victims of Buchenwald
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Buchenwald
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Buchenwald
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Liberation of Buchenwald
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Mass Graves for Prisoners
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Uncovered Grave
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Crematorium
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Liberation of Auschwitz
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Liberation of Dachau
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Madjanek gas canister
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Zyklon B cannisters
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Railway transport to camps
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Buchenwald
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Einsatzgruppen
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Auschwitz crematoria
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Dachau aerial view
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Photos taken by U.S. soldier
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U.S. Soldiers Execute Nazis
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Survivors!
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Nuremberg Trials