wwii holocaust
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This slideshow is a VERY basic overview of the Holocaust using material extracted from my class' 8th grade U.S. History book.TRANSCRIPT
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The Holocaust
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Why the Jews?Prejudice against Jews common in Europe
Used as a scapegoat for Germany’s troubles after WWI
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Hitler Rises to PowerPut members of Nazi party into key gov’t positions.
Created Gestapo (secret police)
created Nazi-run schools and Nazi propaganda that printed lies about Jews
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Nuremberg Laws1935
Jews must wear yellow Star of David.
Jewish businesses must be boycotted.
Took away all Jewish rights & their property.
Jews not allowed to: be judges, teachers, lawyers, soldiers, or to marry Germans.
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Kristallnacht“Night of Broken Glass”
Within 15 hours:
200 synagogues (temples) destroyed
7,500 Jewish stores looted & destroyed
More than 100 Jews killed...many more to come...
30,000 Jews rounded up & sent to concentration camps
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GhettosJews sent to live there.
Unsanitary and crowded.
Small areas within a city sealed off with high walls and/or barbed wire.
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Hitler’s Final SolutionGoal was to “exterminate” all Jews worldwide
Hard labor, torture, starvation.
Used mass killings and mass graves to hide the evidence.
Used gas chambers, firing squads, and crematoriums.
6 million Jews killed; about 5 million non-Jews as well
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