• HOWABOUT GERMANY ANDTHEHOWABOUT GERMANY ANDTHE
REBUILDING OF EUROPE?REBUILDING OF EUROPE?
But wait…But wait…
We forgot oneWe forgot one Last EventLast Event in WWII!in WWII!
Hitler’s Dream of a
Perfect Empire
PRELUDE
• IN 1939, GERMANY
INVADED POLAND
WHICH HAD A MUCH
LARGER
POPULATION OF 3
MILLION JEWS.
• IN 1941, GERMANY
INVADED RUSSIA
WHICH HAD A
POPULATION OF 5
NUREMBERG
LAWS
• STRIPPEDJEWS OF
CITIZENSHIPS,
JOBS AND
PROPERTY
• JEWS WERE MADE
TOWEARYELLOW
STAROF DAVIDTO
EASILY IDENTIFY
THEM
KRISTALLNACH
T (1938)
"Night of Broken Glass."
wave of violent anti-
Jewish attack which took
place on 1938 by German
troops.
Instigated primarily by Nazi Party officials
and members of the SA (Sturmabteilungen:
literally Assault Detachments, but
commonly known as Storm Troopers)
—broken glass from the
windows of synagogues,
homes, and Jewish-owned
businesses plundered and
destroyed during the
violence.
At least 91 Jews were killed in the attacks,
30,000 were arrested and incarcerated
in concentration camps
Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were
ransacked
demolished buildings with sledgehammers
Over 1,000 synagogues were burnedand over
7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or
damaged
SCAPEGOAT
• INDIVIDUAL, GROUPORCOUNTRY SINGLE OUT
FORNEGATIVE TREATMENT ORBLAME
SCAPEGOAT
• INDIVIDUAL, GROUPORCOUNTRY
SINGLE OUT FORNEGATIVE
TREATMENT ORBLAME
• ANTI- SEMITISM= HATREDFORANTI- SEMITISM= HATREDFOR
JEWS.JEWS.
• SECURITY SQUADRONSECURITY SQUADRON = HITLER’S ELITE= HITLER’S ELITE
(SS), WAS CHARGEDWITHROUNDING UP(SS), WAS CHARGEDWITHROUNDING UP
JEWS.JEWS.
1933
WW2 StartsWW2 Starts
19411941
= GermanyGermany
== AustriaAustria
Ghettos-
segregated
areas for Jews
Children Dying ofChildren Dying of
Starvation in theStarvation in the
Warsaw GhettoWarsaw Ghetto
Groups were divided into
two:
CONCENTRATION CAMPSCONCENTRATION CAMPS
• = NAZI LABORCAMPS (UNDESIRABLES).= NAZI LABORCAMPS (UNDESIRABLES).
CONCENTRATION CAMPSCONCENTRATION CAMPS
• = NAZI LABORCAMPS (UNDESIRABLES).= NAZI LABORCAMPS (UNDESIRABLES).
DESTRUCTION THROUGH WORKDESTRUCTION THROUGH WORK
This photo was taken by the Nazis to show just how
you could quite literally work the fat of the Jews by
feeding them 200 calories a day
The unfit, old and sick goes to death camp
HITLER’S “HITLER’S “FINALFINAL
SOLUTIONSOLUTION””
• GENOCIDEGENOCIDE = THE= THE
DELIBERATE ANDDELIBERATE AND
SYSTEMATICSYSTEMATIC
KILLING OF ANKILLING OF AN
ENTIRE POPULATIONENTIRE POPULATION
• COMMUNISTS, SOCIALISTS,
LIBERALISTS, ETC.
• JEWS, GYPSIES, FREEMASONS, AND
JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES, ETC.
• HOMOSEXUALS, THE MENTALLY
DEFICIENT, MENTALLY ILL,
PHYSICALLY DISABLED, INCURABLE
ILL, ETC.
THE FINAL STAGETHE FINAL STAGE
• OVERWORK, STARVATION, BEATINGS, ANDBULLETS WERE DEADLY, BUT THEYOVERWORK, STARVATION, BEATINGS, ANDBULLETS WERE DEADLY, BUT THEY
DIDNOT KILL FAST ENOUGHDIDNOT KILL FAST ENOUGH……
• MASS EXTERMINATION
• (6) DEATHCAMPS WERE BUILT IN POLAND~ WERE 12,000 PEOPLE COULDBE(6) DEATHCAMPS WERE BUILT IN POLAND~ WERE 12,000 PEOPLE COULDBE
KILLEDIN A DAY.KILLEDIN A DAY.
EXPERIMENT
S
• HITLER’S
ATTEMPT TO
BUILDA
PERFECT HUMAN
RACE ANDTHE
STRONGEST
ARMY POSSIBLE
THESE TERRORS
OCCURREDIN BLOCK10
OF AUSCHWITZ I. JOSEF
MENGELE WAS
NICKNAMED"THE ANGEL
OF DEATH"FORTHE
INHUMAN EXPERIMENTS
HE CONDUCTED.
• SOME WERE EXPERIMENT UPON
• A WAR CRIMES INVESTIGATION PHOTO OF THE DISFIGURED LEG OF A SURVIVOR
FROM RAVENSBRUECK, POLISH POLITICAL PRISONER HELENA HEGIER (RAFALSKA),
WHO WAS SUBJECTED TO MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS IN 1942. THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS
ENTERED AS EVIDENCE FOR THE PROSECUTION AT THE MEDICAL TRIAL IN
NUREMBERG. THE DISFIGURING SCARS RESULTED FROM INCISIONS MADE BY
MEDICAL PERSONNEL THAT WERE PURPOSELY INFECTED WITH BACTERIA, DIRT,
AND SLIVERS OF GLASS.
New Arrivals
‘Destruction
Through
Work’
‘Showers’
• Auschwitz, PolandAuschwitz, Poland
– Largest death camp ( gas chambers)Largest death camp ( gas chambers)
Notice how it has been built to resemble a railway
station
• Auschwitz, PolandAuschwitz, Poland
– Largest death camp ( gas chambers)Largest death camp ( gas chambers)
AUSCHWITZ
FROM THE
AIR
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
• Auschwitz, PolandAuschwitz, Poland
– Largest death camp ( gas chambers)Largest death camp ( gas chambers)
Part of a stockpile of Zyklon-B
poison gas pellets found at Majdanek
death camp.
Before poison gas was used ,
Jews were gassed in mobile
gas vans. Carbon monoxide
gas from the engine’s exhaust
was fed ino the sealed rear
compartment. Victims were
dead by the time they reached
the burial site.
THE GAS CHAMBERSTHE GAS CHAMBERS
• THE NAZIS WOULD
FORCE LARGE
GROUPS OF
PRISONERS INTO
SMALL CEMENT
ROOMS AND DROP
CANISTERS OF
ZYKLON B, OR
PRUSSIC ACID, IN ITS
CRYSTAL FORM
THROUGH SMALL
HOLES IN THE ROOF.
• THESE GAS
CHAMBERS WERE
SOMETIMES
DISGUISED AS
SHOWERS OR
The SS would try and pack up to 2000 people into this gas
THE OUTSIDE OF THE GAS
CHAMBER
Notice the Ovens easy located near the Gas Chambers
Smoke rises as the
bodies are burnt.
GAS CHAMBERS
PROCESSING THE BODIES
• SPECIALLY SELECTED
JEWS KNOWN AS THE
SONDERKOMMANDO
WERE USED TO TO
REMOVE THE GOLD
FILLINGS AND HAIR OF
PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN
GASSED.
• THE
SONDERKOMMANDO
JEWS WERE ALSO
FORCED TO FEED THE
DEAD BODIES INTO THE
CREMATORIUM.
THE OVENS AT DACHAU
THE HOLOCAUSTTHE HOLOCAUST
• THE SYSTEMATIC MURDEROF 11 MILLIONTHE SYSTEMATIC MURDEROF 11 MILLION
PEOPLE ACROSS EUROPE, ½ BEING JEWS.PEOPLE ACROSS EUROPE, ½ BEING JEWS.
THE HOLOCAUSTTHE HOLOCAUST
• THE SYSTEMATICTHE SYSTEMATIC
MURDEROF 11 MILLIONMURDEROF 11 MILLION
PEOPLE ACROSSPEOPLE ACROSS
EUROPE, ½ BEING JEWS.EUROPE, ½ BEING JEWS.
After liberation, an Allied
soldier displays a stash of
gold wedding rings taken
from victims at
Buchenwald.
Bales of hair shaven
from women at
Auschwitz, used to
make felt-yarn.
A German girl is overcome as she walks past the exhumed
bodies of some of the 800 slave workers murdered by the SS
guards near Namering, Germany, and laid here so that
townspeople may view the work of their Nazi leaders.
German civilians under U.S. military escort are forced to see
a wagon loaded with corpses in Buchenwald.
SURVIVORSSURVIVORS??
Poland, 24%
NUREMBERG TRIALSNUREMBERG TRIALS
== ALLIES PUT (24)ALLIES PUT (24)
NAZI LEADERS ONNAZI LEADERS ON
TRIAL FORWARTRIAL FORWAR
CRIMES.CRIMES.
• 12 – EXECUTED, 12 – JAIL, IN
LATERTRIALS 200 MORE WERE
FOUNDGUILTY.
JAPAN OCCUPATION
• UNDERTHE
COMMANDOF GEN.
DOUGLAS
MACARTHUR
• 7 YEARS
• INTRODUCED
FREE-MARKET
• TRANSFORMED
GOVERNMENT
INTERNMENT CAMP
• CONFINEMENT
OF JAPANESE
AMERICAN
DURING WWII
• RELOCATION
CAMP
• NECESSARY FOR
NATIONAL
SECURITY
• CONFINEMENT
OF JAPANESE
AMERICAN
DURING WWII
• RELOCATION
CAMP
• NECESSARY
FORNATIONAL
SECURITY
THE BIG THREE
• US- TRUMAN
• BRITAIN- CHURCHILL
• SOVIET- STALIN
THE UNITEDNATIONSTHE UNITEDNATIONS
• NEWWORLDPEACENEWWORLDPEACE
ORGANIZATIONORGANIZATION
(50 COUNTRIES- TODAY 193)
• HEADQUARTERS: NEWHEADQUARTERS: NEW
YORKYORK
• GENERAL ASSEMBLY-
DEBATE ISSUES AND
RECOMMENDACTIONS
• SECURITY COUNCIL-
MILITARY ACTION AND
SETTLE DISPUTES
• EACHMEMBERHAS ONE
VOTE, ALL HAVE TOAGREE
ON ACTION
• PERMANENT MEMBERS (US,
BRITAIN, SOVIET, FRANCE,
CHINA)
• WORLDCOURT OF JUSTICE
• CRIME AGAINST PEACE
• CRIME AGAINST
HUMANITY
• ECONOMIC ANDSOCIAL

Holocaust

  • 1.
    • HOWABOUT GERMANYANDTHEHOWABOUT GERMANY ANDTHE REBUILDING OF EUROPE?REBUILDING OF EUROPE? But wait…But wait… We forgot oneWe forgot one Last EventLast Event in WWII!in WWII!
  • 3.
    Hitler’s Dream ofa Perfect Empire
  • 6.
    PRELUDE • IN 1939,GERMANY INVADED POLAND WHICH HAD A MUCH LARGER POPULATION OF 3 MILLION JEWS. • IN 1941, GERMANY INVADED RUSSIA WHICH HAD A POPULATION OF 5
  • 7.
    NUREMBERG LAWS • STRIPPEDJEWS OF CITIZENSHIPS, JOBSAND PROPERTY • JEWS WERE MADE TOWEARYELLOW STAROF DAVIDTO EASILY IDENTIFY THEM
  • 8.
    KRISTALLNACH T (1938) "Night ofBroken Glass." wave of violent anti- Jewish attack which took place on 1938 by German troops. Instigated primarily by Nazi Party officials and members of the SA (Sturmabteilungen: literally Assault Detachments, but commonly known as Storm Troopers) —broken glass from the windows of synagogues, homes, and Jewish-owned businesses plundered and destroyed during the violence. At least 91 Jews were killed in the attacks, 30,000 were arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked demolished buildings with sledgehammers Over 1,000 synagogues were burnedand over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged
  • 9.
    SCAPEGOAT • INDIVIDUAL, GROUPORCOUNTRYSINGLE OUT FORNEGATIVE TREATMENT ORBLAME
  • 10.
    SCAPEGOAT • INDIVIDUAL, GROUPORCOUNTRY SINGLEOUT FORNEGATIVE TREATMENT ORBLAME • ANTI- SEMITISM= HATREDFORANTI- SEMITISM= HATREDFOR JEWS.JEWS.
  • 12.
    • SECURITY SQUADRONSECURITYSQUADRON = HITLER’S ELITE= HITLER’S ELITE (SS), WAS CHARGEDWITHROUNDING UP(SS), WAS CHARGEDWITHROUNDING UP JEWS.JEWS.
  • 13.
    1933 WW2 StartsWW2 Starts 19411941 =GermanyGermany == AustriaAustria
  • 14.
    Ghettos- segregated areas for Jews ChildrenDying ofChildren Dying of Starvation in theStarvation in the Warsaw GhettoWarsaw Ghetto
  • 15.
  • 16.
    CONCENTRATION CAMPSCONCENTRATION CAMPS •= NAZI LABORCAMPS (UNDESIRABLES).= NAZI LABORCAMPS (UNDESIRABLES).
  • 17.
    CONCENTRATION CAMPSCONCENTRATION CAMPS •= NAZI LABORCAMPS (UNDESIRABLES).= NAZI LABORCAMPS (UNDESIRABLES).
  • 18.
    DESTRUCTION THROUGH WORKDESTRUCTIONTHROUGH WORK This photo was taken by the Nazis to show just how you could quite literally work the fat of the Jews by feeding them 200 calories a day
  • 19.
    The unfit, oldand sick goes to death camp
  • 20.
    HITLER’S “HITLER’S “FINALFINAL SOLUTIONSOLUTION”” •GENOCIDEGENOCIDE = THE= THE DELIBERATE ANDDELIBERATE AND SYSTEMATICSYSTEMATIC KILLING OF ANKILLING OF AN ENTIRE POPULATIONENTIRE POPULATION • COMMUNISTS, SOCIALISTS, LIBERALISTS, ETC. • JEWS, GYPSIES, FREEMASONS, AND JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES, ETC. • HOMOSEXUALS, THE MENTALLY DEFICIENT, MENTALLY ILL, PHYSICALLY DISABLED, INCURABLE ILL, ETC.
  • 21.
    THE FINAL STAGETHEFINAL STAGE • OVERWORK, STARVATION, BEATINGS, ANDBULLETS WERE DEADLY, BUT THEYOVERWORK, STARVATION, BEATINGS, ANDBULLETS WERE DEADLY, BUT THEY DIDNOT KILL FAST ENOUGHDIDNOT KILL FAST ENOUGH…… • MASS EXTERMINATION • (6) DEATHCAMPS WERE BUILT IN POLAND~ WERE 12,000 PEOPLE COULDBE(6) DEATHCAMPS WERE BUILT IN POLAND~ WERE 12,000 PEOPLE COULDBE KILLEDIN A DAY.KILLEDIN A DAY.
  • 22.
    EXPERIMENT S • HITLER’S ATTEMPT TO BUILDA PERFECTHUMAN RACE ANDTHE STRONGEST ARMY POSSIBLE
  • 24.
    THESE TERRORS OCCURREDIN BLOCK10 OFAUSCHWITZ I. JOSEF MENGELE WAS NICKNAMED"THE ANGEL OF DEATH"FORTHE INHUMAN EXPERIMENTS HE CONDUCTED. • SOME WERE EXPERIMENT UPON
  • 25.
    • A WARCRIMES INVESTIGATION PHOTO OF THE DISFIGURED LEG OF A SURVIVOR FROM RAVENSBRUECK, POLISH POLITICAL PRISONER HELENA HEGIER (RAFALSKA), WHO WAS SUBJECTED TO MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS IN 1942. THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS ENTERED AS EVIDENCE FOR THE PROSECUTION AT THE MEDICAL TRIAL IN NUREMBERG. THE DISFIGURING SCARS RESULTED FROM INCISIONS MADE BY MEDICAL PERSONNEL THAT WERE PURPOSELY INFECTED WITH BACTERIA, DIRT, AND SLIVERS OF GLASS.
  • 27.
    New Arrivals ‘Destruction Through Work’ ‘Showers’ • Auschwitz,PolandAuschwitz, Poland – Largest death camp ( gas chambers)Largest death camp ( gas chambers)
  • 28.
    Notice how ithas been built to resemble a railway station • Auschwitz, PolandAuschwitz, Poland – Largest death camp ( gas chambers)Largest death camp ( gas chambers)
  • 29.
    AUSCHWITZ FROM THE AIR Notice howthe Death camp is set out like a factory complex The Nazis used industrial methods to murder the Jews and process their dead bodies • Auschwitz, PolandAuschwitz, Poland – Largest death camp ( gas chambers)Largest death camp ( gas chambers)
  • 30.
    Part of astockpile of Zyklon-B poison gas pellets found at Majdanek death camp. Before poison gas was used , Jews were gassed in mobile gas vans. Carbon monoxide gas from the engine’s exhaust was fed ino the sealed rear compartment. Victims were dead by the time they reached the burial site.
  • 31.
    THE GAS CHAMBERSTHEGAS CHAMBERS • THE NAZIS WOULD FORCE LARGE GROUPS OF PRISONERS INTO SMALL CEMENT ROOMS AND DROP CANISTERS OF ZYKLON B, OR PRUSSIC ACID, IN ITS CRYSTAL FORM THROUGH SMALL HOLES IN THE ROOF. • THESE GAS CHAMBERS WERE SOMETIMES DISGUISED AS SHOWERS OR The SS would try and pack up to 2000 people into this gas
  • 32.
    THE OUTSIDE OFTHE GAS CHAMBER Notice the Ovens easy located near the Gas Chambers
  • 33.
    Smoke rises asthe bodies are burnt.
  • 34.
  • 35.
    PROCESSING THE BODIES •SPECIALLY SELECTED JEWS KNOWN AS THE SONDERKOMMANDO WERE USED TO TO REMOVE THE GOLD FILLINGS AND HAIR OF PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN GASSED. • THE SONDERKOMMANDO JEWS WERE ALSO FORCED TO FEED THE DEAD BODIES INTO THE CREMATORIUM.
  • 36.
  • 37.
    THE HOLOCAUSTTHE HOLOCAUST •THE SYSTEMATIC MURDEROF 11 MILLIONTHE SYSTEMATIC MURDEROF 11 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS EUROPE, ½ BEING JEWS.PEOPLE ACROSS EUROPE, ½ BEING JEWS.
  • 38.
    THE HOLOCAUSTTHE HOLOCAUST •THE SYSTEMATICTHE SYSTEMATIC MURDEROF 11 MILLIONMURDEROF 11 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSSPEOPLE ACROSS EUROPE, ½ BEING JEWS.EUROPE, ½ BEING JEWS.
  • 43.
    After liberation, anAllied soldier displays a stash of gold wedding rings taken from victims at Buchenwald. Bales of hair shaven from women at Auschwitz, used to make felt-yarn.
  • 45.
    A German girlis overcome as she walks past the exhumed bodies of some of the 800 slave workers murdered by the SS guards near Namering, Germany, and laid here so that townspeople may view the work of their Nazi leaders.
  • 48.
    German civilians underU.S. military escort are forced to see a wagon loaded with corpses in Buchenwald.
  • 51.
  • 55.
  • 57.
    NUREMBERG TRIALSNUREMBERG TRIALS ==ALLIES PUT (24)ALLIES PUT (24) NAZI LEADERS ONNAZI LEADERS ON TRIAL FORWARTRIAL FORWAR CRIMES.CRIMES. • 12 – EXECUTED, 12 – JAIL, IN LATERTRIALS 200 MORE WERE FOUNDGUILTY.
  • 58.
    JAPAN OCCUPATION • UNDERTHE COMMANDOFGEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR • 7 YEARS • INTRODUCED FREE-MARKET • TRANSFORMED GOVERNMENT
  • 59.
    INTERNMENT CAMP • CONFINEMENT OFJAPANESE AMERICAN DURING WWII • RELOCATION CAMP • NECESSARY FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
  • 60.
    • CONFINEMENT OF JAPANESE AMERICAN DURINGWWII • RELOCATION CAMP • NECESSARY FORNATIONAL SECURITY
  • 62.
    THE BIG THREE •US- TRUMAN • BRITAIN- CHURCHILL • SOVIET- STALIN
  • 63.
    THE UNITEDNATIONSTHE UNITEDNATIONS •NEWWORLDPEACENEWWORLDPEACE ORGANIZATIONORGANIZATION (50 COUNTRIES- TODAY 193) • HEADQUARTERS: NEWHEADQUARTERS: NEW YORKYORK
  • 64.
    • GENERAL ASSEMBLY- DEBATEISSUES AND RECOMMENDACTIONS • SECURITY COUNCIL- MILITARY ACTION AND SETTLE DISPUTES • EACHMEMBERHAS ONE VOTE, ALL HAVE TOAGREE ON ACTION • PERMANENT MEMBERS (US, BRITAIN, SOVIET, FRANCE, CHINA) • WORLDCOURT OF JUSTICE • CRIME AGAINST PEACE • CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY • ECONOMIC ANDSOCIAL

Editor's Notes

  • #30 It is important t emphasis that the Death Camps were basically factories
  • #31 THIS IS THE GAS THAT WAS INTRODUCED IN 1942. JEWS WERE SENT INTO SEALED SHOWER UNITS ON THE PRETENCE THAT THEY WERE GOING TO BE SHOWERED. PELLETS WERE THEN PLACED INTO THE SHOWER HEADS AND GAS CAME FROM THE SHOWERS INSTEAD OF WATER. 15 MINUTES LATER THE SHOWER ROOM WOULD BE EMPTIED, BODIES WERE ALWAYS IN A PYRAMID SHAPE, PEOPLE TRIED TO CLIMB ON TOP OF ONE ANOTHER TO ESCAPE THE GAS. BEFORE THIS TYPE OF KILLING METHOD WAS INTRODUCED THOUGH A MORE PRIMITIVE GASSING METHOD WAS USED.... I DON'T KNOW HOW, OR EVEN WHY THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN, BUT IT SHOWS SOME MEN AWAITING DEATH ON THEIR WAY TO THEIR BURIAL PLACE. DID THEY ALWAYS BURY THE DEAD?
  • #34 NO. MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE MURDERED GREW ESPECIALLY HIGH, NAZIS BURNED THE BODIES. SO WHAT OTHER METHODS WERE USED TO SYSTEMATICALLY MURDER THESE PEOPLE?
  • #44 THESE PICTURES SHOW WHAT THEY WANTED. WERE THE NAZI'S NOT WORRIED ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS? DID THEY NOT THINK ABOUT WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN IF ALLIED COUNTRIES DISCOVERED WHAT WAS HAPPENING?