Holocaust Unit

  • Treaty of Versailles

    • lost LOTS land
    • lose military
    • pay back money to winners
    • unfair to Germany
    • blamed their loss on the Jews
  • Price of Bread

    Cost of a 2lbs loaf of bread December 1920- 3.37 marks
    December 1921- 3.90 marks
    December 1922- 163.15 marks
    January 1923- 474 marks
    July 1923- 3,465 marks
    August 1923- 69,000 marks
    September 1923- 1.512 million marks
    October 1923- 1.743 billion marks
    November 1923- 201 billion marks
    December 1923- 399 billion marks
  • Hyper Inflation

    • prices rise too fast
    • gets out of control
    • beyond government control
  • Beerhall Putsch

    • Hitler tries to overthrow the German government
    • did NOT work
    • Hitler was arrest
  • Hitler on Trial

    • admits he tried to overthrow government
    • spins it into something good for him
    • newspaper prints what he says
    • gains lots of fans
    • only gets 9 months in jail
    • fancy time in jail
    • got to talk to people and stigmatize
    • wrote a book "My fight/ struggle"
    • book was just his thoughts
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    Republic style of Government

    -vote for people who make decisions
    - Example: america
    - have president
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    Republic Style Government

    • people vote for people to represent us
    • Like USA
    • had that while Hitler was rising to power
  • Great Depression

    • stock market crashes
    • Hitlers popularity kicked off
  • Anne Frank is born

    Anne Frank is born
  • Became Chancellor

    • Hitler became the leader of Germany
    • Was nonviolent at this point
    • He took Germany because they were sad because of loosing a war and were venerable
    • was in 3rd power place
    • Hitler has power but not too much
  • Reichstag Fire

    • blames communists for fire
    • reichstag = white house/ capital
    • nazi did it
    • blamed it on communist
  • Enabling Act

    • gives Hittler power to make decisions
    • within a few months all other political parties besides the Nazis were eliminated
    • allowed Hitler to get rid of all his rivals
    • Bumped him from #3 to #1
    • supposed to only be "temporary"
    • we see OFFICIAL BOYCOTT OF JEWISH BUSINESSES
  • HOLOCAUST

    Mass killing of 11 million people by the Nazis and Hitler, the dictator of Germany.
  • Nuremburg Law

    • Jewish people had their rights taken away
    • Example: forced to live in ghetto, had to wear badges, etc.
    • decided who's Jewish and who is not
  • Impact of Nuremburg Laws

    • denied citizenship
    • forbade Jews from marrying non Jews (cant marry)
    • punishments ~ fines. imprisonment, hard work
    • can not wave their national flag
  • Smuggling/ Ghetto

    • take something somewhere where its not to supposed to be
    • EX: taking candy into the movies under coat or in pocket
    • In Ghetto ~ removing bricks from center of wall ~ jump the walls ~ kids are #1 smugglers in ghettos because they're small, fast, and innocent
    • 400,00 for every 1.3 square mile area
    - BELOIT: 5 million in our 16.3 square mile area
  • Kristallnacht

    • Day of broken glass burned Jewish churches
    • arrested every Jewish male on the street
    • smashed windows
    • was first sign of violence
  • Germany Invades Poland

    • starting of the war
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    WWII

  • Ghettos

    • places where the Jews had to live
    • filled with diseases and bad things
  • Euthanasia Program

    -systematically killing those deemed "unworthy of life" due to physical disability/ mental illness - 80,000 people -
  • WWII #2

    • Germany invades Poland
    • told their countries he just wanted some of his land back and then later breaks his promise and invaded Poland
    • 3 million more Jews come into Nazi power from Poland
  • WWII #3

    • Nazis put Jews into Ghettos
    • Ghetto~ bad part of town, more crime, more disease, "the hood"
    • moved Jews in there to keep an eye on them
    • walled them in there
    • not allowed to leave
  • Camp

    -taken forcibly
    -played mind games with them ¨work will set you free¨
    -packed into trains
    -no light, air, or breaks
    -many died on the way
    -everything was taken from them
    -Gas chamber and labor
    -Killed people in gas chamber who were pregnant, too young, too old, sick, disabled etc.
    -after dead hair was shaved and teeth were taken out
    -all living people had jobs
    - worked till they died
    -bread made of saw dust and soup from rotten veggies
  • Zyklon B

    • first death camp
    • the gas used to kill people
    • didn't have to waste bullets anymore
    • made gas chambers
    • kill lots of people in a short amount of time
    • discover how dangerous it can be
    • first test it in 1941
    • easiest method to kill
    • used for mass extermination
  • Wannsee Conference

    • "final solution"
    • Nazi gathered in fancy hotel
    • exterminate ALL Jews
    • all people approved
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    Einsatzgrupen

    • mobile killing squads
    • men killing Jewish people
    • gather them all up and kill them
    • 33,000 people out of a town
    • 700 people an hour
    • normally shooting them down in rows of about 15 people at once
    • waste lots of bullets
  • Anne's Family Goes into hiding

    Anne's Family Goes into hiding
    • They were jews
    • Hitler hated jews
    • wanted to kill off all the jewish people
    • they were in serious danger
    • Nazis were going to kill them or send them to concentration camps
    • went into hiding
    • went with the Van Dan family
  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    • residents smuggled weapons in to the ghetto
    • Uprising lasted for about a month
    • SS troops arrested and deported residents after the uprising ended
    • SS are Germans in charge of the ghettos
    • "go out guns a blazing"
    • hand guns and a few explosives
    • weak weapons at first them more powerful weapons at the end
    • killing German soldiers and taking their weapons
    • first few shot were from buildings while they're walking around
    • "went down without a fight"
    • raises their spirits
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    Camp Rebellion

    • beat guards with fists
    • took their weapons
    • armed they went into the weapon storage
    • blew up crematorium
    • Nazi send messages to kill other random people
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    Death Marches

    • allies moved toward death camps
    • Nazis evacuate prisoners
    • march them into Germany to avoid capture
    • brutal treatment and harsh along the way
    • shot the slow and sick people who could not move the pace they wanted
    • some prisoners move to several death marches
    • killed people along the way
    • some froze over night because it was mostly during winter
    • had to keep up at fast pace or else killed
    • leaving cause camps are being liberated
    • have to get out of the camps and go somewhere else
  • Defeated

    Allies defeated the Nazis and Hitler. They went to camps and saved all the people who were left. Many people still do NOT know what happened to their family.
  • D.P. Camps

    • Displaced person camps
  • Nuremberg Trials

  • Liberation

    • camps throughout Europe are liberated by Allied forces
    • can not do death marches because not enough camps left
    • leaving prisoners behind and Nazi leave
    • this is a good ting
    • Allies are fighting against them
    • liberated means to be freed
  • Death of Hitler

    • Hitler commits suicide
    • he kills himself rather than face capture by the Soviet Red Army
    • wife drinks poison
    • he shoots himself
    • told them to burn their bodies so the Soviet Red Army couldn't even take their bodies
    • Germany surrenders within a week
  • Mr. Frank returns to the annex

    • finds annes diary
    • weak from concentration camp
    • upset and very sad