1. The New Order and The
Holocaust
“For your benefit, learn from our
tragedy. It is not a written law that the
next victims must be Jews”
–Simon Wiesenthal

2. Resettlement
 Hitler’s quest for “living space”
for the Germans led to the
“resettlement” of conquered
territory.
 Heinrich Himmler-SS leader-
carried out resettlement plans
in Eastern Europe
 Slavs-Czech,
Polish,Croatian,Slovene, and
Ukrainian-moved out and
replaced with Germans-2.2 mil
move into Poland
 Slavs and others were sent to
slave labor camps
 By 1944-7 mil European
worker were laboring in
Germany

3. Final Solution
 The hatred of Jews
became the key element
in Hitler’s New Order.
 Viewed Jews as parasites
who were trying to
destroy the Aryans.
 Himmler and the SS
shared Hitler’s racial
ideas.
 Himmler and the SS were
in charge of the Final
Solution.

4. Final Solution-Holocaust of the
Jews
 The “Final Solution”
comes from the Wannsee
Conference were Hitler
met with Himmler and
other top aids to discuss
what would be “the Final
Solution to the Jewish
question.” The answer
was genocide.
 Holocaust- a sacrifice
wholly consumed by fire
or a great destruction of
life, especially by fire.
 The Jewish term for the
Holocaust is Shoah.
 Genocide-the systematic
extermination of a
particular racial or ethnic
group.

5. The Final Solution
 Reinhard Heydrich-
head of SS’s Security
Service-in charge of
administering Final
Solution.
 Created
Einsatzgruppen-
mobile killing units
 Einsatzgruppen put
Jews into ghettos-
mainly in Poland

6. Einsatzgruppen
 June 1941-Einsatzgruppen were given
orders to act as mobile killing units.
 Followed the army into conquered lands and
rounded up Jews and other “undesirables”
and executed them-buried them in mass
graves usually dug by the victims themselves.
 Estimated 1million Jews were killed by the
Einsatzgruppen
 Proved to be too slow of a method for the
Nazis-in 1942 the death camps opened.

7. Einsatzgruppen

8. Concentration and Death Camps
 There were 25 concentration camps
across Europe and 6 death camps in
Poland
 Auschwitz-largest camp-30% of arrivals
went to work camps and the rest to the
gas chambers.
 The ghettos in Poland were emptied and
the Jews were sent to the death camps.

9. Transportation to Concentration
Camp

10. Arrival at Concentration Camp

11. Life in the Concentration Camp

12. Death in the Concentration Camps

13. Death Toll
 6 million European Jews- 2 out of 3
European Jews
 Another 9-10 million non-Jewish people
 Gypsies (Roma)
 Mentally handicapped
 Homosexuals
 Europeans of African decent
 Slavs, Poles, Ukrainians, Belorussians
 3-4 million Soviet soldiers (pow)

14. Holocaust
Many ordinary Europeans saved Jewish
lives by hiding Jews in their homes or
helping them to flee Nazi controlled areas.
Others collaborated or helped the Nazis
hunt down Jews.

15. Holocaust in Pictures
 Gallery of Holocaust Images