Introduction
The Holocaust
By Sharia Phillips & Kenyetta Terrell
Block:9
Due Date: October 3, 2014
Task
Adolf Hitler
- In January 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany.
- He was leader of the Nazi Party.
- Adolf was born on April 20, 1889. He later died on April 30, 1945 in Berlin, Germany.
- Hiltler and his Nazi followers attempted to exterminate the entire population of Europe.
- He blamed the Jews for Germany's defeat in World War I.
Process
Jews
- The Jews were treated badly; As you can see in this photo.
- Jews in the 20th century composed about one percent of Germany's population of 55 million people.
- They were removed from schools, banned from jobs, excluded from military service, and was forbidden to share a park bench with a non-jew.
- Minister Joseph Goebbels portrayed Jews as enemies of the German people.
- The Jews lost everything, their homes and their businesses.
- They were forced to perform public acts of humiliation, such as scrubbing the sidewalks clean.
Evaluation
The Holocaust
- "Holocaust" is a word of Greek orgin meaning "sacrafice by fire."
- 6,000,000 people lost their lives during the Holocaust.
- By 1945, the German's and their collaboraters killed nearly two out of three European Jews as part of the "Final Soultion."
- At least 200,000 mentally or disabled patients were murdered in the so called Euthanasia Program.
- Between two and three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, diseases, neglect, or maltreatment.
- To concentrate and monitor the Jewish population, as well to faciliate later deportation of the Jews, the Germans and their collaboraters created ghettos, transit camps, and forced labor camps for Jews during the war years.
- Between 1941 and 1944, Nazi German authorities deported millions of Jews from Gernany, from occupied territories, and from the countries of many of its Axis allies to ghettos and to extermination camps where they were murdered in specially developed gassing facilities.
- This is the Nazi sign.
Conclusion
The End of the Holocaust
- SS guards moved camp immates by train or on forced marches, often called "death marches" in an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners.
- The march continued until May 7, 1945, the day German armed forces surrendered to the Allies.
- The aftermath of the Holocaust: There were many surviors found in displaced persons camps administrated by the Allied Powers.
- The crimes committed during the Holocaust devastated most European Jewish Cummunities and eliminated hundreds of Jewish communties in occupied eastern Europe entirely.
