January 14, 2014

January 12, 20151. Notes: The Holocaust (From 24.3)2. Video Clip: Band of Brothers :

Liberation of Concentration Camp3. Finish The World Wars4. 24.3 Vocabulary

***World War II Exam Tomorrow (Ch. 25 and Holocaust)***

WWII Battles Packet Due Tomorrow No Current Event This Week!

Unit VWorld War

II24.3: The Holocaust

The Holocaust 1933-1945 Nazis targeted

“undesirables.” Politically, racially,

socially unfit. Killed over 6 million Jews

& 5 million others undesirables

Nuremburg Laws

Sept. 1935: Hitler passed Nuremberg Laws.

1. Stripped Jews of citizenship.

2. Banned marriage between Jews & non-Jews.

3. Boycott Jewish businesses

4. Banned Jews from government jobs, practicing law, medicine, etc.

Kristallnacht

Nov.7, 1938: German Jew killed German diplomat in Paris.

Nov. 9, 1938: Kristallnacht “Night of Broken Glass.”

German head of propaganda Joseph Goebbels, led Secret Police (Gestapo: led by Herman Goering)) and civilians in…

Killing over 90 Jews in Germany, injured over 600, destroyed 7,500 Jewish businesses & 200 synagogues, 30,000 Jewish men arrested.

The Final Solution

1939-1942: “Undesirables” placed in ghettos across Germany, Poland, and other parts of Eastern Europe.

Starvation, disease, overcrowding, forced labor. January, 1942: Wannsee Conference- 15 Nazi leaders meet. Final Solution: Extermination (genocide) of all Jews and other

undesirables. Sent to concentration camps. 1.5 million killed by firing squads and other methods, Many camps became extermination camps (Auschwitz in

Poland) where prisoners were systematically executed.

The Final Solution

Liberation

STATISTICS BY COUNTRY

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500,000

1,000,000

1,500,000

2,000,000

2,500,000

3,000,000

3,500,000

POLAND USSR HUNGARY GERMANY

BEFOREAFTER

Jewish population before, Jewish population after Holocaust