Hitler

1
Bell ringer

• Why did Hitler turn to the systematic killing of
  Jews? Werent there other ways to get rid of
  them?

2
The Holocaust

• Chapter 16

3
The Holocaust

• Nazis propose new racial order
• Aryans- master race of Germanic peoples
• All non-Aryans were inferior especially Jewish
• Holocaust- mass slaughter of Jews and other
  groups
• Holocaust begins
• Jews became targets of German failures
• Nuremberg Laws (1935)- took away rights of Jews
• Citizenship, marriages

4
night of broken glass

• German diplomat shot in Paris
• By Herschel Grynszpan for revenge of father
  being deported to Poland
• Germans launch attack on Jews
• This night will be known as kristallnacht or
  night of broken glass
• Flood of Refugees
• Jews will flee Germany
• Hitler called it a Jewish problem and favored
  emigration
• Other countries will turn down the influx of
  Jewish immigrants
• Isolating the Jews
• Hitler will move Jews into Ghettos- segregated
  Jewish areas
• Ghettos were then sealed off in hopes that the
  Jews would starve to death
• Some Jews will form resistance groups in ghettos
• Jews will struggle to keep traditions

5
The Final Solution

• Hitler grows impatient
• Tired of waiting on the Jews to die from disease
  and starvation
• Plan- final solution becomes plan for genocide-
  mass killing of entire people
• Plan for conquest depended on purity of Aryan
  race
• Killings begin
• Hitlers army will hunt down Jews
• Shot prisoners in pits
• Jews not reached by killing squads went to
  concentration camps
• Final Stage
• Extermination camps built with gas chambers
• Auschwitz- largest of the camps
• The Survivors
• 6 million will die
• Less then 4 million will survive

6
Exit Slip

• What was life like in the Auschwitz camp?