The Final Solution

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The Holocaust

• The Final Solution

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Define

• Holocaust systematic persecution and
  annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany
  and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945.
• Genocide acts committed with intent to destroy,
  in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial
  or religious group

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Anti-Semitism

• What is anti-Semitism?

• Extreme prejudice or hatred against Jews

As a way to incite anti-Semitism, pamphlets were
spread throughout Europe and America alleging the
Zion elders were plotting against Western society.
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What was the Final Solution?

• Nazis believed in Aryan supremacy belief that
  Germans represent a superior form of humanity

• They blamed the problems of the world on Jews

• The Final Solution systematic attempt to rid
  Europe
• of all Jews

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Richard WagnerSpring Song
Many historians believe, based on his works, that
Wagner (d. 1883) was anti-Semitic and believed
in Aryan Supremacy. Adolf Hitler used his works
to further his ambitions.
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How did the Nazis treat the Jews?

• Boycott of Jewish stores
• The Night of Broken Glass - Kristelnacht

• Segregation (identification with yellow Stars of
  David and ghettos)

• Imprisonment and killing of Jews and others in
  concentration camps (to work and/or die)

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Segregation
Identification
Warsaw Ghetto
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Children of the Holocaust
1,500,000 Children perished during the Holocaust
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Life in the Concentration Camps

• Medical Experiments
• Auschwitz-Birkenau was a notorious center for
  medical experimentations such as
• High Altitude
• Pharmacological
• Sterilization
• Surgery
• Traumatic Injuries
• Freezing / Hypothermia
• Genetics
• Infectious Diseases

• Torture
• Most notorious Nazi woman was Isle Koch, whose
  husband was commander of Buchenwald

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Concentration Camp Characteristics
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Who liberated the Concentration Camps?

• The Allies
• The world was shocked to find out about the
  concentration camps.

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Genocide has not stopped in the twentieth century
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• Armenians
• Russian undesirables
• Cambodians
• Rwandans
• Read over the information on those genocides.
  What are your thoughts?