1. VS
THE HOLOCAUST

2. THE HOLOCAUST
• It was the mass murder of Jewish people and
other “undesirables” by the Nazis.
• It took place between 1933 and 1945.
• Over 6 million people were killed.
• 7 out of every 10 European Jews died.

3. ELEMENTS LEADING TO THE HOLOCAUST
• Totalitarianism combined with Nationalism
• History of Anti-Semitism
• Defeat in World War I
• Hitler‟s belief in the Master Race
• The Final Solution

4. WHY DID THE HOLOCAUST HAPPEN?
• There was really no
reason for the Holocaust
to happen. It happened
because of racism
towards Jews.
• The Holocaust happened
because the Nazis hated
the Jews so much and
they thought they were
better than the Jews.
Jewish Symbol

5. • “The Holocaust began with Hitler's rise to power in
January of 1933 and ended on VE Day (May 8, 1945).
During this time, more than 6 million Jews and millions
of other groups that caught the negative attention of
Nazi Germany. While all the murders were devastating
to native populations, none were so devastating than
the Jews. During this period, 5,000 Jewish
communities were wiped out and the total that died
represented 1/3 of all Jewish people alive at that time.”

6. NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS
• Nazi Germany began creating concentration
camps in 1933
• They were places to hold political prisoners
and opponents of the Nazi regime
• They grew rapidly in number throughout the
1930s

7. NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS
 After WWII started in 1939, concentration
camps became places where enemies of
Nazis were enslaved, starved, tortured and
killed.
 The camps held Jews, Soviet prisoners of
war, Gypsies), Polish people, political
prisoners, homosexuals, people with
disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholic
clergy, Eastern European intellectuals, and
others—including common criminals.

8. CONCENTRATION CAMPS
 First Camp was Dachau (1933)
 Originally used to torture political opponents
 Became slave labor camps
 Each prisoner was tattooed a number
 Worked 12-14 hour shifts
 Workers would be worked to death
 Famous Camps: Dachau and Auschwitz
 Over 15,000 Camps

9. “THE FINAL SOLUTION”
• Nazi Germany's plan and execution of the systematic
genocide of European Jews during World War
II, resulting in the final, most deadly phase of the
Holocaust.
• Mass killings of about one million Jews occurred
before the plans of the Final Solution were fully
implemented in 1942, but it was only with the
decision to eradicate the entire Jewish population
that the extermination camps were built and
industrialised mass slaughter of Jews began in
earnest.

10. “THE FINAL SOLUTION”
• The Final Solution to the „problem of the
Jews‟ saw the execution of an estimated 6
million Jewish people during WWII
• Auschwitz concentration camp alone
accounted for the death of 4 million Jews and
non-Jews under Nazi Germany.

11. AUSCHWITZ
•Auschwitz was built in 1940 in the Polish city of
Oswiecim, a town that had been taken by Nazi
Germany and renamed Auschwitz.
•The original reason the camp was established
was that the mass arrests of Polish people that
followed the seizing of their country was
becoming unmanageable by the regular prisons.
•In 1942 it became one of the largest death
camps as a part of Hitler‟s “final solution.”