Description
As part of their new order for Europe, the Nazis proclaimed that the German people were the Aryan or "master" race. They believed that Jews and all other non- Aryan people were inferior and eventually this racist ideology led to the Holocaust, the mass slaughter of civilians especially Jews. For many generations, the Germans targeted Jews as the cause of their failure and even blamed them for Germany's defeat in WWI as well as its economic problems after the war. In 1933, the Nazis made persecution a government policy and they created the Nuremberg Laws which deprived Jews of their rights to German citizenship, jobs, and property. They began to attack Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues and before the horrors of the Holocaust, Hitler favored emigration as a solution to what he called "the Jewish problem." He later found that he could not get rid of the Jews through emigration so instead he ordered Jews in all countries to be moved into certain cities in Poland. These areas become known as "the ghetto,"segregated Jewish areas where the Jews were herded into overcrowded unkempt places, sealed off with barbed wire and stone walls. The hope was that the Jews would die from starvation and disease. While waiting for the Jews to die out, Hitler grew restless and therefore decide to take a more direct action, this plan was called the "Final Solution," which was genocide, the systematic killing of the entire Jewish population. The Nazis built concentration camps where Jews were kept as prisoners and those deemed fit for work would be overworked seven days a week with little to no food and those who were deemed unfit would be rounded up and taken into the gas chambers for mass murder.
Maps
The map shows the placement of extermination camps and concentration camps throughout Europe. It also shows which cities had Jewish ghettos and major travel routes.
Here is a map of Auschwitz. It lays out where different roads, barracks, infirmaries, etc.
The yellow, white and black dots are ghettos established in occupied Europe (European countries occupied by Germany) throughout 1939- 1944, and German allies.
After Kristallnacht, Jews became scared and started emigrating out of Germany. This shows the amount of Jews emigrating out of Germany and into the US, Palestine, South America etc.
This maps out what the extermination camps looked like and puts in order the events that happened there.
1) Unloading dock rail platform
2) Fake rail station
3) Barracks, in which the victims were compelled to undress
4) Gas chambers
5) Pits, where the gasses victims were burned
Videos
A Holocaust surviver returns to Auschwitz.
This video is not on youtube, so click here to watch the video.
or click the link below
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust/videos
or click the link below
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust/videos
This video shows the liberation of the prisoners in the concentration camps.
Opera interviews Elie Wiesel while in Auschwitz.
Articles
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005161
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005141
.http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005681
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005137
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005137
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005059
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005130
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005474
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005151
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143