The Holocaust

1
The Holocaust

• Genocide of the Jews before and during World War
  II

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Kristallnacht-Crystal Night

• The Night of the Broken Glass
• November 7, 1938
• Nazi gangs entered and burned most of the
  synagogues in Germany
• broke into Jewish homes and businesses, looted
  and beat up the occupants
• several hundred Jews committed suicide, more than
  1000 murdered, 26,000 are put into concentration
  camps and fined 1billion marks
• ltKristallnacht
• Photographs of Burning Synagogues on Kristallnacht

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Confining Jews to the Ghetto

• Forced Jews to live in the Ghettos (1939-1941)
• eventually became transition areas to ship to
  Concentration Camps
• Warsaw being the most famous of the Ghettos
• Photos of the Segregation of Jews from Society
• Scenes from the Warsaw Ghetto

4
Warsaw Ghetto uprising

• April 19, 1943 starts
• hold out for nearly a month
• of the 56,000 captured, 7000 are shot
• Scenes from the Ghetto uprising
• ltGermans end the uprising

5
The Concentration Camps

• 6 million plus Jews and over 10 million total
  people die in concentration camps
• killed with a grand program of physical
  extermination of the entire European Jewish
  population
• The Camps were set up to starve and kill Jews and
  others
• Most notorious is Buchenwald in Germany and
  Auschwitz outside of Germany
• ltMap of all Concentration camps in Germany

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Photographs from the Camps

• Photographs from the Camps
• ltCorpse laden Cart being emptied by the allies
• More Photos from Death Camps

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Leader of the Final Solution

• ltHeinrich Himmler
• head of the Nazi Police called Gestapo
• in 1929-headed the Schultzstaffel (known as the
  SS or Black Shirts)-elite military force
• 1934-takes over the Gestapo
• carries out the Holocaust
• captured by the British in 1945-set to stand
  trial-kills himself instead

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Liberation of the Camps

• 12th Armored Division liberate the Death Camps