1933- 1945

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

2. 1933-1945 Historical Context of The Holocaust

3. Nationalistic fervor Racism Centuries-old bigotry World War I Antisemitism 1933-1945 Treaty of Versailles Weimar Republic International Indifference Propaganda The Depression Political charisma of Adolf Hitler

7. Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF • “Mein Kampf” means “My Struggle”; Hitler wrote it while in prison in the 1920’s • Still banned in most European countries • Given to every newly married German couple from the late 1930’s onward

8. Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF • “The relation of the Jews to prostitution and, even more, to the white-slave traffic, could be studied in Vienna…When 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)

9. Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF Hitler’s 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)

10. 1933-1945 1933Hitler becomes Chancellor

13. 1933-1945 Night of the Long KnivesJune 30-July 2, 1934

14. "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."

15. 1933-1945 March 1933Dachau Concentration Camp

17. 1933-1945 Sept. 10, 1935Nuremberg Laws

19. 1933-1945 October 1938Deportations Begin

23. 1933-1945 Sept. 1, 1939WWII Begins

26. 1933-1945 1940Euthanasia Program

27. Adolf Hitler's authorization for the Euthanasia Program (Operation T4), signed in October 1939 but dated September 1, 1939.__________National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.

28. This photo originates from a film produced by the Reich Propaganda Ministry. It shows two doctors in a ward in an unidentified asylum. The existence of the patients in the ward is described as "life only as a burden." Such propaganda images were intended to develop public sympathy for the Euthanasia Program.__________United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

29. German Education: Math Problems Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF “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?”

30. 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.__________Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden

32. 1933-1945 Summer 1942Deportations to camps begin

35. 1933-1945 1942-1945Camp Life… and Death

38. 1933-1945 April-October 1943 Rebellion

39. Warsaw ghetto uprising

40. 1933-1945 1945: Liberation

44. 1933-1945 October 18, 1945-October 1, 1946Nuremberg Trials

46. Nuremberg Trial Convictions Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF Guilty: 12- sentenced to death; 3- life imprisonment; four- 10-20 years in prison Innocent: 3 were acquitted

47. 1933-1945 November 13-December 14, 1945Dachau Trials

48. Dachau Trial Convictions Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF Guilty: 40 Nazi war criminals found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging Innocent: none

49. Number of Jews Murdered: Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF 5, 900, 000

50. Number of Gypsies Murdered: Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF • 220, 000