THE HOLOCAUST

BY: SAM

BILLY

ANGELINA

TARGET• Jewish people• Brown hair Brown eyes• 6 MILLION KILLED Jewish• 5 million that were not Jewish but hated

by the Nazi’s- Gypsies- Physical or Mental Disability- Jehovah’s Witnesses

NAZI’S BELIEFS

• Nazi’s came to power in 1933

• Jewish people=Germany’s defeat in WW1

• BELIEVED THAT GERMANS WERE

-“RACIALLY SUPERIOR”

• JEW’S WERE

-“DEEMED IMPERIOR”-THREAT TO GERMANY’S COMMUNITY

-Disliked because of what they believed in

Jew’s Restrictions

• Kristallnacht= burning down synagogues, homes, businesses of Jews

• Children not allowed to go to school

• Curfew and not allowed in public places

• Not allowed to stay in hotels or pools

• Driven out of Germany or sent to Concentration camps

GYPSIES & Jehovah’s Witnesses

• both selfish and pests to Germans -G

• Believed to practice “witchcraft” –G

• 10,000 out of 20,000 killed in concentration camps –JW

• http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215466/the_holocaust.htm

• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5797124812012148738&ei=8_AoS6-dBaL6rAKH59n3Aw&q=holocaust&view=3&safe=active#

• video

How People Were Killed

• Machine guns

• Starvation

• Abuse

• Steamed showers

• Concentration camps

Excerpt from the Diary of Anne Frank

July 5th, 1944

"It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. It’s utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more."

Timeline• Nov 11, 1918 – WWI ended, Weimar Republic established• 1919 – Treaty of Versailles• 1919 – Adolf Hitler joined the German Worker’s Party, which

later became the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (NSDAP) (Nazi Party)

• 1924 – Hitler spent eight months in prison for his involvement in the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed Nazi military coup. – Wrote Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”), which described his views on

racial superiority and provided an outline for future hate.• Jan 30, 1933 – Hitler was made the German chancellor. • Feb 27, 1933 – Fire at the Reichstag (German Congress)

– German President Hindenburg gave him emergency powers• Ordered police and storm troopers against Nazi opponents, whom he

sent them to concentration camps

• Mar 1933 – Enabling Act Passed– Gave Hitler broader, dictatorial powers– First concentration camp opened

• Aug 2, 1934 – Hitler combines the offices of president and chancellor after Hindenburg’s death

• Sept 15, 1935 – Nuremburg Racial Laws– Defined Jews racially and denied them citizenship rights– Prohibited Jews from marrying Aryans

• Jan 1937 – Many professional occupations are closed to Jews

• Apr – June 1938 – New laws required Jews to register all their possessions with the Nazis

• July 1938 – International Conference in Evian, France– The countries present did not do anything

• Mar 1938 – Anchluss• 1938 – Munich Conference• Nov 9-10, 1938 – Kristallnacht (“The Night of

Broken Glass”)– Nazis endorsed by the German government

conduct organized attacks against Jews (synagogues, businesses, homes)

– Official reason behind attacks: a minor German official, Ernst vom Rath, was killed by a Jew

• 1939 – Hitler invades the rest of Chechoslovakia

• August 23, 1939 – Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

• Sept 1939 – WWI began

• 1939 – Nazi euthanasia program began– 70,000 handicapped people of all ages are killed

• 1939- All Polish Jews began to be forced into ghettos

• Sept 8, 1939 –German Jewish businesses forced to identify themselves with a Star of David

• Nov 23, 1939 - German Jews also forced to wear the star– When Nazis came to order Jews into the

concentration camps, they were easier to identify• Sept 3, 1941 – Nazis at Auschwitz used gas

for the first time to kill 600 Soviet POWS and 250 Poles

• Jan 20, 1942 - Wannsee Confersence– Nazis revealed the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”– Called for the elimination of all 11 million European Jews,

whom they believed were polluting the Third Reich• July 10, 1942 – Nazis Auschwitz began the first

medical experiments on prisoners in concentration camps

• Jan 29, 1943 – Gypsies are arrested and ordered to be sent to the concentration camps

• Apr 19, 1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising– After over a month of fighting, the rebels were finally

crushed• July 20, 1944 – A small group of officers from the

German army fail to assassinate Hitler

• 1945 - Liberations began– Jan 18 - 1st liberated camp = Warsaw by the

Soviets– Nazis themselves evacuated Auschwitz to

flee the soviets, Americans later liberated other death camps

• May 18, 1945 – V-E Day

• Apr 30, 1945 – Hitler committed suicide

• Nov 22, 1945 – Nuremburg Trials