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The Holocaust
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The Holocaust

• On April 7, 1933, Hitler ordered the removal of
  all Non-Aryans from government jobs.
• This was the start of racial purification and the
  road to the Holocaust.
• In all 12 million would die in Europe, over half
  of which were Jews.

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The Holocaust

• Although Jews were not the only target, they did
  become the central feature in Hitlers plan of
  extermination.

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The Holocaust

• Hitler convinced many that Jews were responsible
  for Germanys loss in WWI and economic collapse.
• Nuremberg laws stripped Jews of citizenship,
  jobs, and property.

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The Holocaust

• Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass November
  9-10, 1938, storm troopers march all over Germany
  destroying Jewish businesses, burning synagogues
  killing 100 Jews, arresting 30,000.
• Afterward the Nazis blamed it all on the Jews.

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The Holocaust

• Hitlers Final Solution was enacted in 1939.
• This was a policy of genocide or the deliberate
  and systematic killing of an entire population.
• Hitlers security squadrons (or SS) rounded up
  Jews shot them or placed them in ghettos.

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Concentration Camps
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Concentration Camps

• THE GERMANS BUILT A NETWORK OF 20,000
  CONCENTRATION CAMPS FROM 1933-1945
• THESE CAMPS WERE DESIGNED FOR A VARIETY OF
  PURPOSES
• THEY WERE USED FOR TRANSFERS, HOLDING, LABOR,
  EXPERIMENTS, AND EXTREMINATIONS
• MANY OF THE EXTREMINATION CAMPS WERE IN POLAND,
  BUT ALL CAMPS HAD THEIR SHARE KILLINGS

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Concentration Camps

• AUSCHWITZ-POLAND, 1.1 MILLION DIED, BODIES WERE
  DESTROYED IN THE CREMATORIUM, ESTIMATED 20K WERE
  KILLED PER DAY
• TREBLINKA-POLAND, 870K DIED, DUAL CAMP, SLAVE
  LABOR FACILITY ALONG WITH AN EXTREMINATION
  FACILITY
• BELZEC-POLAND, 500K DIED, LITTLE ELSE IS KNOWN,
  DOCUMENTS WERE DESTROYED, AND ONLY KNOWN SURVIVORS

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AUSCHWITZ
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Concentration Camps

• SOBIBOR-POLAND, 250K KILLED, IT WAS PRIMARILY AN
  EXTERMINATION
• CHELMNO-POLAND, 150K KILLED, THE GERMANS USED
  MODIFIED VANS AS GAS CHAMBERS
• MAJDANEK-POLAND, 80K KILLED, USED AS A SLAVE LABOR

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CHELMNO
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Concentration Camps

• BUCHANWALD-GERMANY, 55K DIED, SLAVE LABOR CAMP,
  MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS-MAINLY VACCINES FOR
  TYPHUS(DISEASE CARRIED BY LICE AND FLEAS)
• DACHAU-GERMANY, 32K DIED, WAS THE MODEL CAMP, GAS
  CHAMBERS AND CREMATORIUMS
• EBENSEE-AUSTRIA, 20K DIED, SLAVE LABOR, INHUMANE
  TREATMENT OF WORKERS MADE IT ONE OF THE WORST
  FACILITIES

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BUCHANWALD
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Concentration Camps

• THROUGHOUT THESE 9 MAJOR CAMPS APPROXIMATELY
  3,057,000 WERE KILLED OUT OF THE 12 MILLION THAT
  DIED AT ALL THE CAMPS COMBINED

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The Final Stage

• The final solution did not reach its final stage
  until 1942.
• To mass slaughter and starvation the SS added
  poison gas.
• Mass Extermination was the result of six death
  camps being built in Poland.

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The Final Stage

• Auschwitz was the largest death camp.
• Prisoners were brought in and paraded by doctors.
• Those strong enough to work were put to labor.
• The others were put to death that day.

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THE NUREMBERG WAR TRIALS

• The discovery of Hitler"s death camps led the
  Allies to put 24 surviving Nazi leaders on trial
  in the southern German town of Nuremberg.

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THE NUREMBERG WAR TRIALS

• The defendants included Hitler"s most trusted
  party officials, government ministers, military
  leaders, and powerful industrialists.

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THE NUREMBERG WAR TRIALS

• Each defendant at the Nuremberg trials was
  accused of one or more of the following crimes
• Crimes Against the Peace planning and waging an
  aggressive war

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THE NUREMBERG WAR TRIALS

• War Crimes acts against the customs of warfare,
  such as the killing of hostages and prisoners,
  the plundering of private property, and the
  destruction of towns and cities
• Crimes Against Humanity the murder,
  extermination, deportation, or enslavement of
  civilians