3.3 The Holocaust (part 2)

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Chapter 3: The Second World War

3.3 The Holocaust (part 

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.

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).

Einsatzgruppen

• Death squads behind the Wehrmacht in Eastern Europe. 

What can make 'ordinary men' do such things?

Wannsee Conference (1942)

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

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).

Why only Eastern Europe?

Nuremberg Trials