The document provides information about the rise of the Nazi party in Germany and their systematic persecution and genocide of Jewish people and other groups during the Holocaust. It describes how the Nazis gained power after World War 1 by promising to rebuild Germany and targeting Jewish people and others as enemies. It then explains how the Nazis isolated Jewish people in ghettos and concentration camps and eventually began mass extermination in death camps, killing over 6 million Jews as part of the "Final Solution."

1. The
Holocaust

2. Journal
I will show you a series of images.
Try to remember what
they look like.
!
Remember as many details of this
place as you can.

7. Journal
Imagine the government has
forced you to live in this place. In
at least one paragraph, describe
what it is like to live here. Use “5
senses” writing: what do you see,
hear, feel, smell, and taste?

8. Rise
of the
Nazis

9. Rise of the Nazis
Germany and its
allies lost World War
One in 1918. They
were blamed for the
destruction, and were
forced to sign a treaty
that made them pay
22 billion eros. The
debt destroyed the
German economy.
The government in
place after the war
was weak.

10. Rise of the Nazis
People needed a cause to bring them together
again, and they needed to rebuild the country.
WWI had united them against a common enemy…
maybe all they needed was a new enemy.

11. Rise of the Nazis
The Nazi party started to gain
popularity because it promised
to create a socialist society free
of undesirable people that
would make Germany weak. It
promised to make Germany a
great world power again.

12. Rise of the Nazis
Beliefs of Nazi Party Members:
• Germany should be the greatest nation in the
world (German Nationalism).
• The Aryan Race (light skin, blue-eyed, blonde-
haired people of German decent) is superior.
• Single-party socialist government: the
government controls much of the private
industry in the country, but unlike communism,
everything is not distributed equally.

13. Nazis hated:
Jews

14. Nazis hated:
Gypsies

15. Nazis hated:
Black People

16. Nazis hated:
Disabled

17. Nazis hated:
Communists

18. Eugenics
Eugenics is the study of
humans in order to
improve the human race
by selecting desired
traits to breed, or
undesirable traits to
eliminate from the gene
pool. It is an early type
of science that is now
considered illegitimate.

19. Eugenics
Based on Charles Darwin’s
theory of natural selection,
Eugenics was founded on
the belief that certain ethnic
groups of humans had
evolved to be genetically
superior to others.

20. Eugenics

21. Eugenics
Scientists of the late
1800s and early 1900s
studied racial traits, and
declared themselves to
have evolved into superior
humans. The Nazi party
supported the idea that
racial undesirables should
be removed, and Germans
should only marry other
Germans in order to keep
the race pure.

23. Rise of Hitler
In 1933, the Nazi party was elected into power, and
having eliminated all rival parties, took total control.
Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party at the time,
and was elected “Chancellor of Germany.” Although he
was elected, he soon held all the powers of a dictator.

24. Hitler Youth
Hitler maintained support
by winning the hearts of
young people in Germany.
Because young people are
the most easily influenced
by propaganda, many
adopted Nazi beliefs.
!
The Hitler Youth program
was cool to be part of: it
was restricted to those who
had pure German ancestry.

25. Hitler Youth
The Hitler Youth program
was fun - kind of like an
after-school camp. It
taught boys and girls to
love Germany, to hate
racially inferior people,
and to be physically fit.
Once boys got older, it
trained them how to fight.
But no one knew what
exactly they would be
fighting for next.

27. World War II
In 1939, Hitler ordered an invasion of Poland.
Germany wanted Lebenstraum (“living space”),
and Poland was a source of farmland for food. The
imperialist expansion of Germany had begun.

28. Final Solution
Nazi Germany's plan
during World War II
to systematically
exterminate the
Jewish population
in Nazi occupied
Europe through
genocide. The Nazis
planned to capture
and murder every
Jew they could find.

29. Ghettos
First, the Nazi police
would identify the
homes Jews and other
undesirables. They
would force these
people to move to
ghettos - fenced in
areas where only Jews
were permitted to live.
These areas were very poor and restrictive.

30. Concentration Camps
Jews were transported
from ghettos and towns
to concentration camps.
The Nazi referred to
them as “work camps.”
People were told they
would work there
temporarily. When they
arrived at the camps they
were usually separated
from their families.

31. Concentration Camps
Soon, the Jews found out
that these camps were
actually “death camps.” If
they were not worked to
death or starved to death,
they were often executed.
When Hitler gave the order for
the execution of Jews, some
concentration camps officially
became “extermination camps.”

32. Extermination
Bodies both living and dead were cremated (burned)
in ovens. The bodies were buried in large ditches
outside the camps.

33. Extermination
People were told to enter a shower when they arrived
to the camps. The shower heads released poisonous
gas that choked them all to death.

34. Concentration Camps

35. Concentration Camps

36. Concentration Camps

37. The Holocaust
11 million people were killed in the genocide of
the holocaust. 6 million of these were Jews.

38. The Holocaust
At the end of the war, Allied forces liberated
prisoners the concentration camps they
discovered. (1943-45).

40. We are the shoes. We are the last witnesses.
We are shoes from grandchildren and grandfathers
From Prague, Paris, and Amsterdam
And because we are only made of fabric and leather
And not of blood and flesh,
Each one of us avoided the hellfire.
- Moses Schulstein

41. When the holocaust happened, European people thought
they lived in a modernized society - an advanced
civilization - where horrible things didn’t happen. They
thought genocide only happened in poor, developing
nations far away from them.
!
Survivors of the holocaust want the world to know that
horrible things can happen anywhere. They can happen
to anyone when we fail to recognize intolerance.

42. “There may be times when we
are powerless to prevent
injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to
protest. The Talmud [Jewish
Holy Text] tells us that by
saving a single human being,
man can save the world.
…None of us is in a position to
eliminate war, but it is our
obligation to denounce it and
expose it in all its
hideousness.”
- Elie Wiezel