The document discusses the Holocaust, which was the mass murder of approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million others by the Nazi regime during World War II. It explains that the Holocaust happened due to Nazi racism against Jews and their belief that they were superior. The Holocaust took place in Germany and other countries controlled by the Nazis, beginning in 1938 and ending in 1945. Jews were forced to live in ghettos, concentration camps, and were killed in gas chambers or by death squads working with local populations. Over 11 million people were killed in total as a result of the systematic genocide carried out by the Nazis during this period.

1. THE HOLOCAUST
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2.  The Holocaust was the mass murder of the Jews.
 The Holocaust was one of the most horrific events of the 20th
century.
• “The Holocaust is generally regarded
as the systematic slaughter of not only 6 million
Jews, (two-thirds of the total European Jewish
population), the primary victims, but also 5 million
others, approximately 11 million individuals wiped
off the Earth by the Nazi regime and its
collaborators. “

3. WHY DID THE HOLOCAUST HAPPEN?
 There was really no reason
for the Holocaust to
happen. It happened
because of racism towards
Jews.
 The Holocaust happened
because the Nazis hated
the Jews so much and they
thought they were better
than the Jews.
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4. WHERE THE HOLOCAUST HAPPENED.
The Holocaust
happened in
Germany and
other countries
that the Nazis
were in control
of.

5. The Holocaust began in
late 1938 and ended in
1945, during World War
II.

6.  “The Holocaust began with Hitler's rise to
power in January of 1933 and ended on VE Day
(May 8, 1945). During this time, more than 6
million Jews and millions of other groups that
caught the negative attention of Nazi Germany.
While all the murders were devastating to native
populations, none were so devastating than the
Jews. During this period, 5,000 Jewish
communities were wiped out and the total that
died represented 1/3 of all Jewish people alive
at that time.”

7. GHETTOS
 First used in Poland when Nazi’s invaded in 1939
 Areas where Jews were forced to live in certain cities.
Comparable to prisons
 Everyone was put to work for the Nazis
 Largest was Warsaw (380,000)
 Many people died from the labor, conditions, and disease.

8. A gas chamber is an apparatus for killing,
consisting of a sealed chamber into which
a poisonous or asphyxiant gas is
introduced. The most commonly used
poisonous agent is hydrogen cyanide;
carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide
have also been used.
Gas chambers have also been used for
animal euthanasia, using carbon dioxide
as the lethal agent. Sometimes a box
filled with anaesthetic gas is used to
anaesthetize small animals for surgery or
euthanasia.

9. CONCENTRATION CAMPS
 First Camp was Dachau (1933)
 Originally used to torture political opponents
 Became slave labor camps
 Each prisoner was tattooed a number
 Worked 12-14 hour shifts
 Workers would be worked to death
 Famous Camps: Dachau and Auschwitz
 Over 15,000 Camps

10. DEATH SQUADS
 Open, public killings of Jews
 Mainly occurred once Germany invaded the USSR.
 Coordinated between SS (German Secret Police) and the local populations
 Estimated at least 2.2 million people were killed this way