4.  Nuremburg Laws
Review
 Zionist solution?
 Banned from
Emigrating

5.  Ghettoization
 Importation of Nazi
doctrine
 Deportment

6.  Initial plan –
reestablish the Ghetto
 All across Poland
 Separate
administrations
 No cohesive plan
 Self governance?
 Violence outside

7.  After fall of France,
Nazi’s look for a new
“home” for Europe’s
Jews
 Part of peace between
France/Germany
 Problems with this?

8. • Jan 20, 1942
• How to implement
Endlösung – Final
solution to the Jewish
Question
• This would lead to
Erlösung (redemption)
of the German People
• Final Solution:
Extermination of the
European Jewry

9.  However, mobile
Killing Units,
Einsatzgruppen,
already following
troops in Russia
 Killing Jews and
Russian Peasants
 Staffed initially by SS
 Special Police Units

10. Camp Number of Deaths
Auschwitz ~1.1 -1.3 million
Treblinka ~700,000
Belzec ~435,000
Sobibor ~167,000
Chelmno ~152,000
Majdenek ~78,000
Total ~2,700,000 – 3,000,000

12. German civilians forced to tour Buchenwald

13.  How is the Anti-Semitism of the Nazis influenced by
social and intellectual trends in the late 19th Century?
Make sure to include a discussion of race and
eugenics/biological determinism.
 How do developments of the late 19th century socially
and politically lead to Jews not emigrating from
Germany?
 Compare the systematic extermination of the Jews with
violence against other groups deemed “degenerate” or
inferior by the Nazis including the mentally disabled,
Poles and Slavs, Homosexuals, etc.