A View of the Nazi Death Camps

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• A View of the Nazi Death Camps
• By Steven Yuen and Trevor Dias

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• The train Entrance to Birkenau, a.k.a. Auschwitz
  II.
• This was the largest Nazi camp during World War II

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• The train entrance to Birkenau, as it would look
  today

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• The Camps were usually very large and contained
  many entrances and housing. This is another
  entrance to Birkenau, as we would see it today

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• After the Jews arrived at the camps, they were
  marched through halls of wires like these

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• Many of the Jews were stripped of their clothes
  and belongings when they first entered the camps.
  This photo shows what they looked like after
  spending time in the hands of the Nazis

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• These steps led up to the Mauthausen camp.
  Inmates had to carry giant blocks of stone up the
  flight of stairs and the steps earned the name,
• The Stairway of Death

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• The inmates at the Nazi death camps spent their
  nights in these quarters with many fellow inmates

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• This is what it looked like with many people
  crammed tightly into a small bed

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• Every morning Jews had to wake up and line up, to
  be checked during roll call

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• According to ex-prisoners, the Nazis tried their
  very best to strike fear in the hearts of all the
  inmates. They even gave the walls of their camps
  a somewhat dreadful look and feeling

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• Within the camps, the Nazis preformed many
  strange medical experiments. Pictured above is a
  dissecting table at Auschwitz

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• After the cruel experiments, and the deaths of
  inmates, Nazis would place the corpses in
  furnaces, much like this one

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• Even though the Nazis cremated bodies to save
  space, the ashes of inmates continued to pile up.
  Here is a pond outside of Birkenau today.
  During the Holocaust, ashes were dumped in this
  area

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• This is a birds-eye view of Auschwitz and its
  sub-camps

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NEVER FORGET

• By the end of 1943 the Germans closed down the
  death camps built specifically to exterminate
  Jews. The death tolls for the camps are as
  follows Treblinka, (750,000 Jews) Belzec,
  (550,000 Jews) Sobibór, (200,000 Jews) Chelmno,
  (150,000 Jews) and Lublin (also called Majdanek,
  50,000 Jews). Auschwitz continued to operate
  through the summer of 1944 its final death total
  was about 1 million Jews and 1 million non-Jews.
  Allied encirclement of Germany was nearly
  complete in the fall of 1944. The Nazis began
  dismantling the camps, hoping to cover up their
  crimes. By the late winter/early spring of 1945,
  they sent prisoners walking to camps in central
  Germany. Thousands died in what became known as
  death marches.

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Bibliography Slide

• We used the following
• Pictures
• Google image search
• (And Mr. Macs cool School notes links)
• Books
• Masters of Death by Richard Rhodes
• My Father Bleeds History, The Maus series, by Art
  Spiegelman
• And here My Trouble Began, The Maus series, by
  Art Spiegelman
• Periodicals
• French Railroad Holocaust Suit Reinstated.
  (against French National Railroad for
  transporting over 75,000 Jews and others to Nazi
  death camps during World War II) The New York
  Times, June 19, 2003

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Intolerance

• YOU
• have the ability to stop anything like this from
  happening again
• Embrace differences, celebrate diversity, make
  this world a better place!

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THE END

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• This is a Steven-Trevor Studios Production. We
  would like to thank our favorite teacher, who is
  better than Mrs. Lusk!
• The oneThe onlyThe BEST
• Mr. Mac
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