1. THE HOLOCAUST Alba Chocán Alexandre 1º Grado en Historia Inglés Universidad de Cantabria Curso 2010-2011
2. Introduction ● On January 30, 1933 the President Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor, the most powerful position in the German government. ●Ideology: - Racism: siththe "racial theory" proclaimedthesuperiority of a supposed "Germanrace“. - Nationalism: spread theloveforthe country towhichthe individual shouldbesubordinate. - Authoritarianism: Thecult of the leader.
3. The Holocaust ● “Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire“. ● Persecutionand murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime. ● The Nazis believed that Germans were "racially superior“. ● German authorities targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Gypsies, Poles, Russians, and other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses and homosexuals.
4. Victims ● In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. ● By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly 2/3 European Jews as part of the "Final Solution“. ● Other victims: - 200,000 Gypsies. - 200,000 mentally or physically disabled patients, were murdered in the Euthanasia Program.
8. Two brothers in the ghetto of Kovno. A month later, they were deported to the Majdanek camp. Kovno, Lithuania, February 1944. - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -
13. In the last months of World War II, Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Germany. They began to find and free the prisoners of concentration camps until the May 7, 1945, the German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies “What has happened is a warning. Forget is a crime. It was possible that all this happened and it remains possible that at any time happen again”. Karl Theodor Jaspers Germanpsychiatrist and philosopher.
