THE HOLOCAUSTWHA

T-THE SYSTEMATIC KILLING OF GROUPS THE NAZIS VIEWED ASINFERIOR DURING WW II.EXAMPLES: JEWS, GYPSIES, SLAVS,THE HANDICAPPED

AT FIRST (1933-39)• JEWISH BUSINESSES ARE

BOYCOTTED• JEWS LOSE ALL OF THEIR RIGHTS.• JEWS & NON-JEWS ARE SEPARATED.• JEWS ARE FORCED TO REGISTER & WEAR THE STAR OF DAVID ON THEIR CLOTHES.

KRISTALLNACHTOn November 10, 1938 the

NazisAttack Jewish businesses & Synagogues on the “Night of Broken Glass”. Hundreds of Jews were killed.

In 1939•The Nazis begin the killing of the handicapped.•The Nazis start forcing all Jews to relocate to the Ghettos.

MASS EXECUTIONSNazi Killing Squads would

roundup inferiors, take them outside of

town & shoot them, then burrythem in mass graves. This was too slow & expensive.

THE FINAL SOLUTIONThe code name given to the

Nazi plan to exterminate all Inferiors by sending them toConcentration Camps.

RESULTS OF THE HOLOCAUST• Around 11 million died,

including 6 million Jews.• The word genocide will be used to describe this event.•Many Nazi officials were executed for “war crimes” after the Nuremberg Trials.