THE HOLOCAUST1936 - 1945

THE FINAL SOLUTION WHEN? 1939-45 WHERE? APPLIED TO ALL NAZI-OCCUPIED EUROPE AREAS? DEPENDED ON SIZE OF NAZI CONQUESTS

Ex: GREATEST EXTENT OF NAZI OCCUPATION IS 1942 HOW?

MASS EXECUTUION GHETTO ISOLATION OF JEWS, ETC. FORCED LABOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS EXTERMINATION CAMPS

WHO’S TARGETED? ALL UNTERMENSCHEN (DEFINE) JEWS HOMOSEXUALS GYPSIES PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY DISABLED COMMUNISTS

THE FINAL SOLUTIONA. AREAS HARDEST HIT:

1. EASTERN EUROPE:-Poland-Russia2. GERMANY

B. WHY?: 1. THOSE AREAS HAD HIGHEST POPULATION OF JEWS, OR…2. THOSE AREAS WERE MORE EASILY INVADED EARLY IN WAR

C. WHO CONDUCTED MOST OF THE FINAL SOLUTION?1. S.S. (Schutzstaffel) CAMP GUARDS

2. S.S. “EINZATSGRUPPEN” (“Special Action Groups”)3. “WAFFEN – S.S.” (SS Front line combat units)4. POLICE IN CONQUERED TERRITORIES5. “GESTAPO” UNITS - German Secret Police

***MOST EXTERMINATION / FINAL SOLUTION ACTIONS WERE DONE BY S.S. GROUPS

REICHSFUHRER HEINRICH HIMMLER,

LEADER OF THE S.S.

HIMMLER (left) AND HITLER (right)

THE WANSEE CONFERENCE WHAT? MEETING / CONFERENCE OF TOP NAZI OFFICIALS TO DECIDE &

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: HOW COULD THE EXTERMINATION OF EUROPEAN JEWS BE MADE

MORE “EFFICIENT”? HOW WOULD “FINAL SOLUTION” PLANS BE IMPLEMENTED IN FUTURE

CONQUERED TERRITORY? WHEN? JANUARY, 1942 WHERE? WANSEE, BERLIN, GERMANY WHO? KEY NAZI & SS. LEADERS

EXAMPLE: REINHARD HEYDRICH, ADOLF EICHMANN WHY?

HIMMLER WANTED EXTERMINATION METHODS TO BE IMPROVED & ACCELERATED

EFFECT? MORE JEWS WERE MOVED DIRECTLY TO EXTERMINATION / DEATH

CAMPS SOME CAMPS WERE ENLARGED FOR MORE KILLING SOME CAMPS WERE CONVERTED FROM LABOR TO EXTERMINATION

CAMPS RESULT? HOLOCAUST ACCELERATED

OBERGRUPPENFUHRERREINHARD HEYDRICH, S.S.a.k.a – “THE BLOND BEAST”

REINHARD HEYDRICH(right)

ADOLF EICHMANN, S.S.

DEATH CAMPS DEATH CAMPS: CAMPS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR THE MASS KILLINGS OF

PRISONERS WHY?

THE WANSEE CONFERENCE CALLED FOR GREATER “EFFICIENCY” IN THE KILLING OF JEWS, SLAVS, etc.

EINSATZGRUPPEN KILLINGS WERE VIEWED AS INEFFICIENT & DEMORALIZING TO TROOPS

WHERE? MOST DEATH CAMPS WERE IN EASTERN EUROPE (POLAND, RUSSIA) MOST NOTORIOUS:

AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU (POLAND) TREBLINKA (POLAND) SOBIBOR (POLAND) DACHAU (GERMANY) – ORIGINALLY A CONCENTRATION CAMP

WHAT? KILLING METHOD: USUALLY TOOK ONE OF THREE FORMS:

GAS CHAMBERS OVERWORK / STARVATION SUMMARY BEATINGS / SHOOTINGS

RESULT? DEATH TOLL INCREASES RAPIDLY (AUSCHWITZ: 1.6 MIL. KILLED)

JEWS BEING SEPARATED INTO GROUPS AT RAIL DEPOT

JEWS AFTER ARRIVAL AT AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU EXTERMINATION CAMP

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH OF AUSCHWITZ- BIRKENAUCONCENTRATION CAMP

JEWISH CAMP LABORERS, AUSCHWITZ

INTERIOR, PRISONER BLOCK HOUSE, AUSCHWITZ

INTERIOR, PRISONER BLOCKHOUSE, AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU

CAMP SURVIVORS AFTER LIBERATION BY ALLIES

JEWISH WOMEN & CHILDREN BEING MOVED TO GAS CHAMBERS

GAS CHAMBER ENTRANCE (ONE OF THEM), AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU

ENTRANCE TO AUSCHWITZ GAS CHAMBER

EXIT FROM GAS CHAMBER ROOM LOOKING TOWARD CREMATORIUM ROOM

CLOTHING OF GAS CHAMBER VICTIMS, AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU

GAS CHAMBER FROM ONE ENTRANCE, AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU

GAS CHAMBER ROOM WITH EXIT TO CREMATORIUM ON LEFT

ZYKLON-B CANISTER AND PELLETS

BODY BEING LOADED INTO CREMATORIUM OVEN

CONCENTRATION CAMP IDENTIFICATION TATTOO ON ARM OF SURVIVOR

CONCENTRATION CAMP SURVIVOR DISPLAYS HIS I.D. TATTOO

DR. JOSEF MENGELE, S.S.NAZI CAMP “DOCTOR” – a.k.a. “THE ANGEL OF DEATH”

MENGELE AND FELLOW S.S. OFFICERS, AUSCHWITZ

CAMP PRISONER BEING INFECTED WITH COMMUNICABLE DISEASE

CAMP PRISONER IN AIR CHAMBER, DR. MENGELE’s EXPERIMENTS UNIT, AUSCHWITZ

“Cold Water” Experiment on live prisoner, Auschwitz (note floating bocks of ice)

U.S. ARMY TROOPER WITH CAMP VICTIM REMAINS, APRIL, 1945

U.S. ARMY TROOPERS & OFFICERS SURVEY CAMP VICTIM REMAINS, APRIL, 1945

U.S. ARMY OFFICERS & TROOPS WITH CAMP SURVIVORS

BRITISH TROOPS BURY VICTIM REMAINS BERGEN-BELSEN DEATH CAMP, 1945

RED ARMY DOCTORS ATTENDING TO CAMP SURVIVORS, APRIL, 1945

AFTER THE HOLOCAUST RESULTS:

MOST EUROPEAN JEWS ARE… KILLED DISPLACED

MANY EMIGRATE FROM EUROPE TO… N.AMERICA ISRAEL/PALESTINE

“ZIONISTS” NOW MAKE STRONGER EFFORTS TO ESTABLISH STATE OF ISRAEL

EUROPEAN JEWISH POPULATION IS DECIMATED

TOTAL KILLED: APPROXIMATELY 6 MILLION