3. What exactly are we talking about?
• Holocaust: the destruction or slaughter of
human life on a mass scale.
• The Holocaust: The mass murder of Jews
under the German Nazi regime during the
period 1941–45.
****Note: Jews were the primary victims– 6 million were
murdered; Gypsies, handicapped, Jehovah’s
Witnesses, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and
homosexuals also suffered grievous oppression and
death.
4. Why did it happen?
The Holocaust took
place because
individuals, groups,
and nations made
decisions to act or
not to act.
5. Kristallnacht: “Night of Broken Glass”
• Nov. 9, 1938
– Nazis storm troopers
attacked Jewish
homes, businesses and
synagogues throughout
Germany.
• Approx. 100 Jews were
murdered
• 30,000 men sent to
concentration camps
6. Hitler Looks For Solutions to His
“Jewish Problem”
• 1st: Emigration
– Eventually countries
tired of accepting
refugees
• 2nd: Ghettos
– Segregated
neighborhoods where
Jews were forced to live
• 3rd Final Solution
8. Final Solution
• Hitler’s systematic killing of Jews
• Sent to concentration (extermination camps)
– Auschwitz (largest)
• Gas chambers
– Could kill up to 6,000 people/day
10. Warm-Up: Using what you have
learned in the previous day’s
lesson, copy and answer the questions
• What happened during Kristallnacht?
• What was the reasoning behind Hitler’s “Final
Solution?
12. Auschwitz: Aerial View
Notice how the Death camp is set
out like a factory complex
The Nazis used industrial
methods to murder the Jews
and process their dead
bodies