The Holocaust The Final Solution Never Again The

The Holocaust: The Final Solution Never Again!

The Final Solution? • Question: The “final solution” to what? • The Answer: To the “Jewish Question. ” • The Jewish Question? • Yes, simply put: What to do with the Jews? • For Nazi Germany, it was a question of how to rid Germany and their occupied territories of the Jews.

Why?

History of Anti-Semitism • http: //www. simpletoremember. com/art icles/a/History. Jewish. Persecution/ • Romans and Jewish Revolt / Diaspora 70 C. E. • Jews ostracized and discriminated as “Christ Killers” Early Middle Ages • Crusaders Massacres of Jews 11 th-13 th C. E. • Blamed for black Death 1347 -49 C. E. • Spanish Inquisition 1490 s • Luther publishes On Jews and Their Lies 1542 C. E. • Dreyfus Affair 1896 C. E. • Protocols of the Elders of Zion published in Russia 1905 C. E.

Nazis Come to Power 1933 -35 • Nuremburg Laws (Anti. Jewish) Legislation Passed 1935 • Jewish emigration encouraged • Anti-Jewish riots and propaganda common • Nazis institute official definitions of race

Nazis and Racial Purity • At the heart and soul of Nazi belief stood the ideal of socalled Aryan racial purity. • For Hitler and the Nazis, the Jews were a racial and not a religious group. • To safeguard “Aryan purity of blood” the Nazis codified strict racial distinctions. An Aryan child is singled out by a teacher for having especially desirable physical characteristics.

Jewish Emigration

Kristallnacht 1938 • November 9 -10, 1938 • “Crystal Night” Night of Broken Glass. • Jewish lives lost and Jewish property damaged and destroyed. • Showed that no Jew could ever expect to live a normal life in Nazi Germany.

Concentration Camps • By 1933 50 Concentration Camps were opened in Germany to send prisoners and suspected opponents of the Nazis to. • As time went on more and more Jews and other “undesirables” will go to these camps.

The Ghettos 1939 -44 • Once WW II started it was decided that many of the Jews were to be concentrated into sections of large cities. • In these ghettos thousands of Jews will eventually die of starvation and disease. • Those who survive will be eventually deported to camps.

Einsatzgruppen: Mobile Killing Squads 1939 -45

The Final Solution: 1942 -45 • On January 20, 1942, fifteen highranking Nazi party and German government leaders gathered for an important meeting. • The conference was held in a suburb of Berlin at a villa by a lake known as Wannsee. • The goal of this conference was the debate of the so-called "Final Solution of the Jewish Question". • The Wannsee Conference was the place where the "final solution" was formally revealed Eichmann Heydrich

The Death Camps 1942 -45 Gas Chamber 2 • The "Final Solution" was the code name for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of the European Jews. • Jews would be systematically sent to the East and worked to death naturally. Those that survived would be eliminated and disposed of by other efficient means. 1 Zyklon B Canister Corpses of Gas Victims 3 Crematorium 4

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