The Holocaust

Hitler’s “Final Solution” for the European Jews

Semitism)
Hitler’s “Perfect Society” • Long history of hatred of the Jews. (Anti-

on their clothing to be identified.
• Jews were forced to wear the Star of David

Glass”- Jewish bus nesses were attacked.
immigration.
• Kristallnacht (Nov.i1938)“Night of Broken • Hitler wanted to get rid of Jews through

– Many Jews fled to other areas of Europe.
in Poland.
• Those that did not flee were sent to ghettos

– Hitler tried to starve them off.

Anti-Semitism

"Just as it is often hard to tell a toadstool from an edible mushroom, so too it is often very hard to recognize the Jew as a swindler and criminal..."

The Star of David

The Final Solution

in the ghettos
.
• The Jews did not die quick enough for Hitler

genocide of the Jews & others deemed
• He decided to enact his “Final Solution”- the

“subhuman.”
and
killed them or sent them to concentration
• Hitler’s SS (security force) rounded up Jews

camps.
or starved to death.
• In the concentration camps, the Jews worked

– Auschwitz, Poland

The Final Stage

the Jews quickly.
• By 1942, gas chambers were built to kill

Women and children were murdered
– 6,000 killed per day.
work.
• first. Men lived a bit longer in order to

of the “shower.
”
• The gas was released from the ceiling

• The bodies were then burned.

The Aftermath

• 6 million European Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.

• The last of the concentration camps were finally liberated by the Allies in 1945.

Children About to Die in Gas Chamber

Quick Execution

Medical Experiments

Auschwitz Death Camp

Auschwitz Death Camp