The Holocaust: a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire; any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life

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The Holocaust a great or complete devastation or
destruction, especially by fire any mass
slaughter or reckless destruction of life
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1933-1945
Historical Context of The Holocaust
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Nationalistic fervor
Racism
Centuries-old bigotry
World War I
1933-1945
Antisemitism
Treaty of Versailles
Weimar Republic
International Indifference
Propaganda
The Depression
Political charisma of Adolf Hitler
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Anti-Semitism
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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Henry Ford
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Karl Lueger (1844-1907)Mayor of Vienna
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If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he
would have been ranked among the great minds of
our people. -Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf
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Beer Hall PutschNov. 9, 1923
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In 1935, the sixteen dead were moved from
separate graves to a pair of Honor Temples in
Munich where they took up eternal watch. It was
as if they had been born again. Flags that
formerly had flown at half mast were now at full
mast. The New York Times correspondent observed
that Munich was celebrating not a funeral but a
triumph. As the names of the sixteen were called
in a last roll call before the Honor Temples, the
assembled crowd of thousands answered here to
each name. Bending Spines p. 21
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Hitlers MEIN KAMPF
Hitlers MEIN KAMPF

• Mein Kampf means My Struggle Hitler wrote it
  while in prison in the 1920s
• Still banned in most European countries
• Given to every newly married German couple from
  the late 1930s onward

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Hitlers MEIN KAMPF

• The relation of the Jews to prostitution and,
  even more, to the white-slave traffic, could be
  studied in ViennaWhen thus for the first time I
  recognized the Jew as the cold-hearted,
  shameless, and calculating director of this
  revolting vice traffic in the scum of the big
  city, a cold shudder ran down my back. (p. 59)
• Hence today I believe that I am acting in
  accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator
  by defending myself against the Jew, I am
  fighting for the work of the Lord. (p. 65)

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Hitlers MEIN KAMPF

• On this first and greatest lie, that the Jews
  are not a race, but a religion, more and more
  lies are based in necessary consequence. (p.
  307)

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1933Hitler becomes Chancellor
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March 22, 1933Dachau Concentration Camp
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Schaefers Personal CollectionDachau Gates
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April 1, 1933Boycott of Jewish Businesses
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May 10, 1933Book Burnings
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Schaefers Personal CollectionBerlin City Center
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Night of the Long KnivesJune 30, 1934
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"If anyone reproaches me and asks why I did not
resort to the regular courts of justice, then all
I can say is this In this hour I was responsible
for the fate of the German people, and thereby I
became the supreme judge of the German people."
"It was no secret that this time the revolution
would have to be bloody when we spoke of it we
called it 'The Night of the Long Knives.'
Everyone must know for all future time that if he
raises his hand to strike the State, then certain
death is his lot."
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Sept. 10, 1935Nuremberg Laws
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hidden in plain sight
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August 1-16, 1936Summer Olympics in Berlin
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July 1938Evian Conference
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October 1938Deportations Begin
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Schaefers Personal CollectionBerlin Deportation
Station
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November 7, 1938Assassination of Ernst Vom Rath
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'Being a Jew is not a crime. I am not a dog. I
have a right to live and the Jewish people have a
right to exist on this earth. Wherever I have
been I have been chased like an animal.'9
--Herchel Grynszpan
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November 9, 1938Kristallnacht- The Night of the
Broken Glass
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May 1939S.S. St. Louis
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Sept. 1, 1939WWII Begins Blitzkreig Lightning
War
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Hitlers MEIN KAMPF
Heinrich Himmler on Polish Education

• The sole goal of this schooling is to teach them
  simple arithmetic, nothing above the number 500
  writing ones name and the doctrine that it is
  divine law to obey the GermansI do not think
  that reading is desirable.
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October 1939T-4/Euthanasia Program Mercy
Killing
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Slide taken from a Nazi propaganda filmstrip,
promoting "euthanasia," prepared for the Hitler
Youth. The caption says "Mentally ill Negro
(English) 16 years in an institution costing
35,000 RM Reichsmarks." __________United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Hitlers MEIN KAMPF
German Education Math Problems

• The construction of a lunatic asylum costs 6
  million marks. How many houses at 15,000 marks
  each could have been built for that amount?

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Buses used to transport patients to Hadamar
euthanasia center. The windows were painted to
prevent people from seeing those inside. Germany,
between May and September 1941.__________Hessisc
hes Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden

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Summer 1941Killing SquadsEinsatzgruppen task
forces or intervention groups
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December 7, 1941Pearl Harbor
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January 20, 1942Wannsee Conference
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Reinhard Heydrich, chief of SD (Security) Service
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Hitlers MEIN KAMPF
The Final Solution

• The Jews were seen as a problem to be taken care
  of, and so the solution to the Jewish problem was
  the code name of the
• Final Solution
• To exterminate all Jews from the face of the
  earth. There were even plans to eliminate all
  Jews in the United States.

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February 19, 1942Executive Order 9066
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Summer 1942Deportations to camps and killing
centers begin
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Hitlers MEIN KAMPF
Different Kinds of Camps

• Concentration Camps-Jews were selected on arrival
  to either work or be killed in gas chambers.
• Killing Centers were camps with gas chambers
  where Jews didnt go through a selection but were
  killed right away.

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Schaefers Personal CollectionLodz Ghetto
Deportation Station
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Schaefers Personal CollectionLodz Ghetto
Deportation Station
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Schaefers Personal CollectionLodz Ghetto
Deportation Station
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1942Camp Life and Death
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Schaefers Personal CollectionAuschwitz I Guard
Tower
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Schaefers Personal CollectionAuschwitz/Birkenau
Entrance
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Schaefers Personal CollectionAuschwitz State
Museum
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Schaefers Personal CollectionAuschwitz State
Museum
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Schaefers Personal CollectionAuschwitz/Birkenau
Gas Chamber
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Schaefers Personal CollectionAuschwitz State
Museum
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Schaefers Personal CollectionAuschwitz State
Museum
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April-October 1943 Rebellion
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Schaefers Personal CollectionTreblinka Memorial
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Warsaw ghetto uprising
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December 1944Death Marches
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January-May1945 Liberation
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1933-1945
April 30, 1945Death of Hitler
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Schaefers Personal CollectionBerlin Hitlers
Bunker Map
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Schaefers Personal CollectionBerlin Above
Hitlers Bunker
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1933-1945
May 8, 1945Surrender of Germany
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October 18, 1945-October 1, 1946Nuremberg Trials
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Nuremberg Trial Convictions

• Guilty 12- sentenced to death 3- life
  imprisonment four- 10-20 years in prison
• Innocent 3 were acquitted

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November 13-December 14, 1945Dachau Trials
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Dachau Trial Convictions

• Guilty 40 Nazi war criminals found guilty and
  sentenced to death by hanging
• Innocent none

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May 14, 1948Israel A New State
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Number of Jews Murdered

• 6, 000, 000

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Number of Gypsies Murdered

• 220, 000

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Number of Handicapped Murdered

• 200,000

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Number of Polish People Murdered

• 1,900,000

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Number of Soviet Prisoners of War Murdered

• 3, 300, 000

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Number of Homosexuals Murdered

• 15,000 (estimate only)

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Number of Jehovahs Witnesses Murdered

• 2, 500

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Number of Political Prisoners Murdered

• 25,000

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Number of Black Europeans Murdered

• 1,000 (estimate)

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Only guard yourself and guard your soul
carefully, lest you forget the things your eyes
saw, and lest these things depart your heart all
the days of your life, and you shall make them
known to your children, and to your childrens
children.Deuteronomy 49