1 / 21

January 14, 2014

January 14, 2014. Notes: The Holocaust Video Clip: Band of Brothers : Liberation of Concentration Camp Return Work ***World War II Exam Tomorrow*** Bring Mid-Term Study Guide Thursday and Friday! WWII Battles Packet due Wednesday WWII Exam Wednesday Current Event Due Friday.

benito
Download Presentation

January 14, 2014

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. January 14, 2014 • Notes: The Holocaust • Video Clip: Band of Brothers : Liberation of Concentration Camp • Return Work ***World War II Exam Tomorrow*** • Bring Mid-Term Study Guide Thursday and Friday! • WWII Battles Packet due Wednesday • WWII Exam Wednesday • Current Event Due Friday

  2. Unit VWorld War II • 24.3: The Holocaust

  3. The Holocaust • Nazis targeted Jews and other “undesirables.” • Anti-Semitism. • Killed over 6 million Jews & 5 million other:“Undesirables” • Gypsies • Opponents of Nazism or Political prisoners • Homosexuals • “Anti-social”- beggars, handicapped, criminals • Christians.

  4. The Holocaust • Sept. 1935: Hitler passed the Nuremberg Laws. • Stripped Jews of citizenship. • Banned marriage between Jews & non-Jews. • Boycott Jewish businesses. • Banned from civil service & government jobs, practicing law, medicine, etc.

  5. Kristallnacht • Nov.7, 1938 young German Jew shot and killed German diplomat in Paris. • November 9, 1938, Kristallnacht“Night of Broken Glass.” • German head of propaganda Joseph Goebbels, led Secret Police (Gestapo: led by Herman Goering)) and civilians in killing over 90 Jews, injured over 600, destroyed 7,500 Jewish businesses & 200 synagogues.

  6. The Holocaust • Jews tried to flee. • 350,000 escaped Nazi territories from 1933 until the start of WWII in 1939. • Immigration quotas limited Jewish immigration into the U.S.

  7. The Final Solution • 1939-1942: People placed in ghettos for confinement across Germany, Poland, and other parts of Nazi occupied Eastern Europe. • January, 1942: Wannsee Conference- 15 Nazi leaders meet and decide “Final Solution.” • Final Solution: Extermination (genocide) of all Jews and other undesirables. • Sent to concentration camps. • Some became extermination camps(i.e. Auschwitz in Poland) where prisoners were systematically executed.

  8. The Final Solution • Auschwitzhoused 100,000 people in 300 barracks with gas chambers that could kill 2,000 at a time. • 1.6 million people died at Auschwitz.

  9. Liberation

  10. STATISTICS BY COUNTRY Jewish population before, Jewish population afterHolocaust

More Related