Why did Hitler carry through with it ? How did it fit with his visions?

1. Why did Hitler carry through with it? How did it fit with his visions?

a. Tactic 1 = 1935 b. Tactic 2 = 1938 c. Concentration camps

being built & boycotting is occurring in 1930s

• 3rd and Final Tactic was…– “Final Solution”

• To the “Jewish Question”

– Genocide

• January 1942• where Hitler’s “Final Solution” was presented

a. Wansee Conference

• Final Solution = annihilation of Jewish people– Genocide

• Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler and the SS would run it

• The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, social status, or other particularity.

c. Where didHitler get hisInspiration?“After all, who remembers the Armenians?”

• What is the question?• Jews have a history of

being a “question” in Europe…when?????

• 1939 = Germans realize during WW2 that they have a new Jewish Question =– how to get rid of Jews

from the beginning of Hitler’s 1000 Year Reich?

• Previous actions have caused emigration…not enough

Ukraine 1942

• Einsatzgruppen (part of the SS) in charge of Final Solution

• Jews from countries occupied by Germany would be captured

• Three possible steps/stages you could go through during the Final Solution

• Stage 1 = Ghetto – Temporary

Jewish quarters in cities

• Move out of ghettos and sent to either…–Concentration

Camps • Stage 2

–Death Camps• Stage 3

Useyourmap

• Concentration Camp–Work camp–Jews produced

goods for German Empire

–Plan for Jews here?

–Schindler’s List

• Extermination Camp–Purpose more for

mass murder–6 major ones in

Eastern Europe–Auschwitz in

Schindler’s List

• 2000 people killed every 30 minutes

Sub-Camp

SelectionProcess

• Not just Jews who were exterminated, but non-Aryans

• Jews = about 6 million• Russians = about 3 million• Polish = 1 million• Gypsies = 350K…considered inferior race• Disabled = 250K• Jehovah’s Witnesses…refused to join army

or salute Hitler• Homosexuals• Freemasons…supported Jewish conspiracy

to rule the world

• The mass murder is at its worst around 1942 (?) and continues until end of the war

• Some resisted…

• Some helped Nazis as collaborators

• Some just ignored it… pretended it was not there

• by 1945

• From March 1944 to the end of the war, the USA had capability to bomb Auschwitz, but didn’t

• Cambodia 1970s

• Guatemala 1980s

• Rwanda 1994

• Bosnia 1990s• Darfur 2000s• When will it

end?

Schindler’s List

Oskar Schindler

Amon Goeth