The Holocaust

Genocide

people murder

The systematic* and planned extermination of an ENTIRE group of people based on nationality, race, religion, or ethnicity.

* orderly, step-by-step process

How does genocide happen?

Under what conditions is it possible for one group of people to willingly attempt to annihilate an ENTIRE group of others?

What kinds of feelings is this meant to provoke?

Describe how Spain is portrayed.

Who is the giant ape supposed to represent?

What is this poster encouraging people to do?

By joining the military during wartime, what is expected of the soldiers?

What is going on in these pictures?

What is the intended result of firing heavy artillery?

Do the men realize they’re killing people?

Do they actually see the people they’re firing at?

Pretend this is a radar used to locate and bomb targets.

How are people portrayed on a radar screen?

Would it be easier for this man to do his job, or the men in the previous picture? Why?

This is what people would look like on a radar screen.

What is going on here?

How do these men do this job every day?

Splitting up families

Sending some family members to instant death, and others to slave labor.

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How does this happen?

Make a “T” chart in your notes. On one side of the chart, make a list of the items human beings physically need in order to live. On the other side list things that you personally need in order to live a happy life.

Dehumanization (DHZ)The process of taking away all human qualities of the victim and reducing the victim to sub - human levels in the eyes of the perpetrator and the victim.

process

Hitler to power

“Final Solution”

Why DHZ?

Perpetrator (Nazi) Victim (Jews & others)

Makes their “job” easier

They don’t think they’re doing anything wrong

Justifies their actions in their own eyes

Jan. 1933Hitler to power

Feb. 1933 Ger. lose freedom of speech, press, etc. People can be put in jail w/out a trial

March 1933Hitler becomes dictator1st concentration camp for political opponents

April 1933 - Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses - Jews & political opponents lose jobs as

teachers, lawyers, doctors, etc.

May 1933 Nazis burn books by Jews & Pol. opponents

July 1933 Jews who move to Ger. can’t be citizens

Sept 1935 Nuremberg Laws make Jews 2nd class citizens **

Aug 1936Olympics - antisemetic signs taken down

**Nov. 1938KristallnachtState organized riots against Jews **

Sept. 1939WWII startsthings get worse for the Jews

Nov. 1939Forced removal of Jews from defeated countries to new locations. Jews in new Ger. territories forced to wear ID tags

June 1940Lodz Ghetto sealed offJews can’t leave

June 19411st mass murder of Russian & Polish Jews(Einsatzgruppen)

July 19411st talk of the “Final Solution” to the Jewish Question

Sept. 1941German Jews forced to wear yellow Star of David

Oct. 1941German Jews removed from homes to Ghettos

Nov. 19411st killing center opens

Jan. 1942Wannsee Conference“Final Solution” is all set and ready

March 19421st gas chambers used to kill Jews