1. Part 3: Genocide
• Your goal:
Be able to compare the impact of genocide
on different ethnic groups.

2. Genocide
Genocide is an
attempt to
exterminate a
group of people.

3. The Holocaust
•The mass killing of Jews and other civilians
•Done by German Nazis during WWII
•This is not the only genocide in the world.

4. Why study the Holocaust?
• As an example of genocide
• As an example of a fragile civilization
• As an example of why we study history:
• To learn from the past that we might not
repeat it.

5. Soon the mass of fainting humanity Is lead to the
clean foyer of death. Disrobe quickly, take a shower
and you will be fed. Food! Food! The hungry mass
of disoriented humanity awakens runs and fights to
get into the chamber of gas.
The heavy door closes and the cyclone dropped.
Soon the parents choke and turn blue. Later the
children turn rigid with death The people become a
twisted load, of intertwined limps and heads glued
with blood.
When the human pulp is ready for the
works, Sondercommando quickly pull the bodies
apart, peel the gold from the mouths, and the
remains are taken to the open pit where the bones
are cleaned with fire, and the fat drained for human
soap.

6. Adolf Hitler, 1939
“Our strength consists in our speed and in
our brutality. Genghis Khan led millions
of women and children to slaughter
- withpremeditation and a happy
heart. History sees in him solely the
founder of a state. It’s a matter of
indifference to me what a weak western
European civilization will say about me.

7. Adolf Hitler, 1939
I have issued the command - and I’ll have
anybody who utters but one word of
criticism executed by a firing squad - that
our war aim does not consist in
reaching certain lines, but in the
physical destruction of the enemy.

8. Adolf Hitler, 1939
Accordingly I have placed my death-head
formations in readiness - for the present
only in the East - with orders to them to
send to death mercilessly and without
compassion, men, women, and children of
Polish derivation and language. Only thus
shall we gain the Lebensraum which we
need. Who, after all, speaks today of
the annihilation of the Armenians?”

9. The Final Solution
In 1941, the Nazis began referring
to the Final Solution.
They were no longer trying to
move the Jews out of their way.
They were trying to destroy them
entirely.

10. In 1933, the Nazis began rounding
up Jews from all over Europe.
They were told they were going to
be resettled in the East (Ukraine).
They could pack up a few
belongings to take with them.
It was unfair, but
resettlement didn’t
sound horrible.

11. The truth:
Jews were being shipped to concentration
camps. They were
starved, abused, experimented on, and
murdered.
The camps killed thousands of people
each day.
One camp alone could kill
20,000 people in a day.

12. The truth:
The gas chamber
Jews were being shipped to
concentration camps. They were
starved, abused, experimented
on, and murdered.
The camps killed over 10,000
people each day.

13. Disposal of bodies
At first they buried
bodies, but there were so
many, they began
cremating them.

14. These were people.
mothers daughters sisters brothers cousins uncles
fathers students teachers neighbors artists friends
bankers butchers bakers classmates aunts citizens family
scientists doctors carpenters musicians farmers athletes
cooks authors children grandparents

15. These were people.
mothers daughters sisters brothers cousins uncles
fathers students teachers neighbors artists friends
bankers butchers bakers classmates aunts citizens family
scientists doctors carpenters musicians farmers athletes
cooks authors children grandparents

16. Holocaust
People were systematically destroyed.

17. Auschwitz 1944
Do you
see the
smoke?

18. Who would believe the truth?
500,000 Gypsies killed
250,000 disabled persons killed
6,000,000 Jews killed
Jews, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, Social
Democrats, Communists, partisans, trade
unionists, Polish intelligentsia, Gypsies, Mentally
disabled persons, physically disabled
persons, blacks, prisoners of
war, criminals, homeless, beggars, writers, journalists, l
awyers and anyone who opposed the Nazis.

19. Who would believe the truth?
Even when reports came back about the
true nature of the camps,
people refused to believe
that anyone would try to systematically
kill so many people.
Jews were still being loaded into
boxcars, thinking they were being
resettled.

20. Why do we study this today?
Why is it important to understand?

22. Your assignment:
Examine the genocide packet and prepare a
group report on two of the genocides listed.
Your report must include the following:
•A map for each country involved
•Number of people affected
•Who was victimized
•Who did this
•What was done to the victims.
You will present this as a group to the entire
class.