4.6 Holocaust

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4.6 Holocaust

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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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The meaning of Holocaust
  • Meaning:  a Jewish sacrificial offering that was burned completely on an altar. 
  • Shoah: Used 12 times in the old Testament. Means Destruction, annihilation,  demise, etc.
  • ''Shoah'' is a better name. 

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Phase 1
Bullying and humiliating

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Fase 1
Pesten en vernederen

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Kristallnacht
9th of November 1938




  • Germans destroy jewish property after a radio speech from  Joseph Goebbels, 

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Phase 2
Exclude

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Fase 3
Ghettos
(name comes from the Medieval times: 
Jewish neighbourhood in Venice)

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Life was hard in the Gettos: 
There was not enough living space for 
the thousands of people who had to live there. 

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Another problem in the Ghettos was the
shortage of food. Many people died of
malnutrition.

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  • Concentration camps were much 'easier to oversee'  'and more efficient' to solve the ''Jewish problem''.
  • In Gettos you could find ways to hide from the Germans. In concentration camps, this was pretty much impossible. 

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Warning!
The images in this part of the lesson can be experienced as shocking.

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Phase 4a
Elimination of the Jews

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The murder of Jews started early on in the war. However it wasn't systematic yet.

Lots of executions were done by the SS-Einsatzgruppen.

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Phase 4b
Systematic elimination of the Jews
Endlösung (=final solution)

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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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Transportation Camps
  • People were send here before being send to concentration- or extermination camps.

  • Examples: Westerbork and Vught.

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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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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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A picture made in secret by the resistance of
women who are walking towards the gas chambers.

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Zyklon B


  • It was originally a pesticide against vermin and existed before the war.

  • Zyklon B consists of granules (=korrels) that evaporate (prussic acid= blauwzuur) when they come into contact with air.

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All evidence had to be destroyed.
clothes, pictures.....bodies. 

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Life in the camps

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