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The Dangers of Racism – The Holocaust

The Dangers of Racism – The Holocaust. This presentation is about the dangers of racism and its affects regarding the Jewish Holocaust in Nazi Germany in World War II. This presentation contains images that can be hard to watch. Be advised.

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The Dangers of Racism – The Holocaust

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  1. The Dangers of Racism – The Holocaust This presentation is about the dangers of racism and its affects regarding the Jewish Holocaust in Nazi Germany in World War II. This presentation contains images that can be hard to watch. Be advised. This is a very personal and sensitive subject. If you feel that this subject is something to laugh about, a conspiracy, untruthful or just have no real interest in seeing it – PLEASE LEAVE !!

  2. Background Facts • World War II Facts: • Timeline: 1939 – 1945 • Total WWII Casualties: 60 Million • Military Casualties: 40 Million • Civilian Casualties: 20 Million • Holocaust Facts: • Murdered by the Nazis: • Jews: 6,000,000 (Incl. 1.5M Children) • Poles: 2,000,000 • Disabled: 250,000 • Homosexuals: 15,000 • Jehovah’s Witnesses: 5,000

  3. Racial Theory • Racial Pyramid & Place in Society: Master Race, needs to be purified and to expand. Under Races, the masses should be used as slave labor to benefit the Master Race. The unfit– to be exterminated. Sub-Humans. To be exterminated. • Jews & • Gypsies

  4. Establishing the Social Structure for Genocide Propaganda - The Use of The Media: Jews as rats to be exterminated Jews controlling the allies behind the scenes Money as the Jewish god

  5. Establishing the Social Structure for Genocide – Cont.

  6. Racism into Law - Nuremberg Laws of 1935 An authentic document of the Nuremberg Laws, determining who is a Jew and establishing what kind of marriages are allowed to a “partial” Jew.

  7. The Process of Genocide Nuremburg Laws – 1935 KristallNacht - 1938 Concentration of the Jews upon occupation of a territory – 1939 - 1945 A brief stop between the ghettoes and the extermination camps – 1940 - 1945 Extermination Camps. Mainly in occupied Poland. 1941 - 1945

  8. Ghettoes & Concentration Camps Ghettoes and Concentration Camps were established in order to remove the Jews from the public, in order to stop them from contaminating the Aryan race. Warsaw Ghetto “Bunk Beds” in Theresienstadt

  9. Systematic Genocide (1940-1941) The First Step – Einsatzgruppen (SS Death Squads) Murder by firing squads, was used mostly in occupied Soviet Union territories from 1940 to 1941. A German Einsatzgruppe soldier preparing to shoot a Jew.

  10. Systematic Genocide (1941-1945) The Second Step – Mass Annihilation in Extermination Camps In 1942 in Wannsee, Germany top Nazi officials decided on “The Final Solution to the Jewish Question”. This was the application of Gas Chambers and Crematoriums to mass murder the Jewish population in the occupied territories. Auschwitz-Birkenau’s entrance – the largest death camp

  11. Systematic Genocide (Video Clip)

  12. Visiting Poland 2005 As many Israeli high school students, I too visited Poland, in which most of the extermination took place.

  13. My Pictures from Auschwitz

  14. Pictures from Majdaneck Human Ash Pile at Majdaneck Extermination Camp

  15. The Aftermath

  16. Last Notes • Recommended Media: • If you have any interest in the subject, you will find the following movies interesting: • Hitler and the Rise of Evil (2003) – Background on the rise of the Nazis to power. • Schindler’s List (1993) – A true story about Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi • Party who saved a few hundred Jews. • Escape from Sobibor (1987) – A true story about an uprising and escape from • Sobibor extermination camp. • Defiance (2008) – A true story about Jewish resistance in eastern Europe. • The Wave (1980) – A short video explaining the ease of submission into • authoritan culture. Thank you for you time and listening.

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