3.3 The Holocaust (part 2)

Chapter 3: The Second World War

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Chapter 3: The Second World War

3.3 The Holocaust (part

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Genocide

Meaning: The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

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Concentration camps

Contain prisoners in one place without trial.
Prisoners were usually subjected to forced labor.
Initially: primarily political prisoners (''enemies of the state'')
Example: Dachau (1933-1945).

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Do you know the name of a Nazi concentration camp?

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Einsatzgruppen

Death squads behind the Wehrmacht in Eastern Europe.

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What can make 'ordinary men' do such things?

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Wannsee Conference (1942)

The Endlösung (= final solution) was discussed here.
The Nazis started to use extermination camps.

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Extermination camps

People were transported here from deportation camps (ex. Westerbork).
People were seperated at arrival.
Those not fit to work went to the gas chamber.
Only in Eastern Europe (Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka).

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Why only Eastern Europe?

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Nuremberg Trials

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