The Holocaust Begins The Nazis propose a new racial order Germans (Aryans) will be seen as the master race All non-Aryan people were seen as inferior This.

The Holocaust Begins• The Nazis propose a new

racial order• Germans (Aryans) will be

seen as the master race• All non-Aryan people were

seen as inferior• This would lead to the

Holocaust• Slaughter of Jews and other

seen inferior groups by the Nazis

Holocaust• Nazis began to target Jews• By 1935, Laws were put into

place that forbade marriages between Jews and non-Jews

• Herschel Grynszpan (while visiting his uncle in Paris) got word that his father was deported to Poland

• On Nov. 7th, he would shoot a German diplomat to avenge his fathers deportation

Holocaust• Nazis launch a violent attack

on the Jewish community• Nov. 9th Nazi storm troopers

go after Jewish homes, business, & synagogues

• 100 Jews murdered• Known as the Kristallnacht

(night of broken glass)• Created the Nazi policy of

Jewish persecution

Jews Begin to Flee Europe

Fleeing Europe• After Kristallnact, many Jews began to flee Europe

to escape the violence• Countries like France, Britain and the U.S. took

many of the immigrants• Eventually these countries would shut its doors to

these people• German foreign minister felt that “We all want to

get rid of our Jews. The difficulty is that no country wishes to receive them.”

Jewish Ghettos

• Hitler begins to move Jews under his control into ghettos

• Segregated Jewish areas that were sealed with barbed wire & stone walls

• Hope to starve the Jews to death or die from disease

• Jews continued to survive

The Final Solution• Hitler takes a more direct

plan (Final Solution)• He called for a system of

mass genocide• Hitler calls for the

elimination of any inferior races, nationalities or groups

• Nazi troops begin killings across Eastern Europe

Concentration Camps

• Jews not killed by the troops were placed into concentration camps or slave labor

• Slaves work 7 days a week• Guards would beat or kill

prisoners for their lack of work

• Very little food for prisoners• Many lost 50lbs in a month

The Final Stage• The Final Solution reached its last stage in 1942,

Nazi camps had huge gas chambers that could kill 6,000 Jews in a day

• Jews who were labeled as weak, were told to undress for a shower and were led into a chamber with fake showerheads

• Doors would close and cyanide gas would pour out of the showerheads

• 6 million Jews died in these camps, less than 4 million survived