Powerpoint on the impact of the Holocaust on Jewish society

1. Holocaust
• Element: Identify Nazi ideology, policies, and
consequences that led to the Holocaust.
• Vocabulary: Nazi ideology, Holocaust

2. Nazi Ideology
Nazi Racism:
• idea that the Germans,
or Aryans, were the
“Master race”
• all non-Aryans were
inferior; especially the
Jews

3. Nazi Ideology
Anti-Semitism:
• hatred of Jewish people
• long existed in Western Europe
• during the depression of the 1920s Hitler
claimed the entire Jewish community were
anti-German and the source of the nation’s
problems
• Jewish leaders also played a dominate role in
the acceptance of the Treaty Versailles in 1919

4. Nazi Ideology
After 1920s:
• Jews became the
national enemy of
Germany

5. Policies
First Solution:
• Nuremburg Laws – laws passed to reduce the right of
Jewish people in Germany
• ex. German and Jews could not marry

6. Policies
Kristallnacht:
• “night of broken glass”
• terror campaign against
Jewish synagogues and
Jewish owned
businesses

7. Kristallnacht

8. Policies
Isolation:
• All Jews were forced to wear a patch with the
Star of David
• Ghettos - Germans began moving Jews into
designated cities then into run down parts of the
city known as ghettos
• Concentration Camps – Hitler moved Jews out of
the cities to work camps that forced the Jews to
work for the Nazi’s. Stripped the Jewish
community of individuality, taking way all their
belongings.

9. Identifying Jews

10. The Warsaw Ghetto in Poland

11. Policies
Final Solution:
• Concentration camps became death camps:
example Auschwitz
• Hitler’s plan for genocide or killing off of the
Jews
• SS troops (Hitler’s security force) became
killing squads that searched through all
German controlled territories hunting down
Jews

12. SS Killing Squads

13. Extermination Camps
Auschwitz Extermination
Camp

14. Concentration Camps
Buchenwald Camp

15. Consequences of the Holocaust
• the slaughter of an estimated 6 million Jews
(does not include Roma-Gypsies, Slavs, Poles,
Handicapped, among others)
• Nuremberg Trials: Nazi leaders brought to trial
for “crimes against humanity” (Holocaust)
• The Holocaust matters today because the
violence against the Jews led to the founding
of Israel after World War II.

16. Jews Killed Under Nazi Rule
Original
Jewish
Population
Jews Killed Percent
Surviving
Poland 3,300,000 2,800,000 15%
Soviet Union 2,100,000 1,500,000 29%
Hungary 404,000 200,000 49%
Romania 850,000 425,000 50%
Germany/
Austria
270,000 210,000 22%

17. Aftermath
• General Eisenhower inspects a camp in 1945.