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Nazi Genocide: The Holocaust in Europe. What events led to the Final Solution?. Relocation to the Ghettos. After Kristallnacht , Jews desperately try to leave Nazi Germany Most were denied entry to other countries
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Nazi Genocide: The Holocaust in Europe What events led to the Final Solution?
Relocation to the Ghettos • After Kristallnacht, Jews desperately try to leave Nazi Germany • Most were denied entry to other countries • Nazis begin to deport remaining Jews into segregated ghettos, mostly in Poland, Jews will be identified and forced to wear a star
The Holocaust in Europe • Nazis developed a plan of genocide known as “the Final Solution” • Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Slavs, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals & Communists are eliminated by SS Killing Squads • Hitler feels SS is wasting ammunition not moving quickly, Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess suggests using poison gas (Zkylon-B) • Ghettos would be emptied and people would be shipped to death camps, mostly in Poland • Camps had huge gas chambers that could kill up to 6,000 people a day, Auschwitz was the largest and most notorious of the camps
Jewish Resistance • Oskar Schindler was one of the best examples of resistance • Using his position as a Nazi businessman he was able to save thousands from death camps by having them work • Other Jews also resisted the Nazis: • 1943: Jewish uprising at Treblinka, many Jews escaped but eventually recaptured by SS 2. 1944: Auschwitz : Gartner & Robota help organize the resistance and smuggled in gunpowder but ultimately failed
