"Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar.
what was the holocausT?
THE HOLOCAUST WAS THE SYSTEMATIC, ORGANIZED, BUREAUCRATIC, STATE-SPONSORED PERSECUTION AND MURDER OF SIX MILLION JEWS BY THE NAZI REGIME AND ITS CONSPIRATORS. BAUER, YEHUDA (1982). THE NAZIS, WHO CAME TO POWER IN JANUARY 1933, BELIEVED THAT GERMANS WERE "RACIALLY SUPERIOR" AND THAT THE JEWS, DEEMED "INFERIOR," WERE A FOREIGN THREAT TO THE SO-CALLED GERMAN RACIAL POOL.
NAZI IDEOLOGY
The basic motivation of the Holocaust was purely idea of Aryan supremacy and anti-Semitism.
• Rooted in idea of a Jewish conspiracy to control the world. • No instances in past of idea solely based on myth. • Adolf Hitler was anti-Semitic; believed that Jews were an inferior race, a threat to German racial purity and nationality. • After years of Nazi rule in Germany, during which Jews were consistently persecuted, Hitler’s “final solution”–now known as the Holocaust–came to completion under the cover of world war. • Mass killing centers built in concentration camps mostly in occupied Poland at Auschwitz, Belzec, Sobibor, and many others. |
the final solution
The Process
• The genocide was carried out in stages, ending in what Nazis called the "Final Solution”plan to exterminate Jews in Europe Bergen, Doris (2009).
• German government passed laws to exclude Jews from civil society called Nuremberg laws.
• Nazis established a network of concentration camps starting in 1933.
• Ghettos created to segregate Polish Jews 1939.
• In 1941, paramilitary units called Einsatzgruppen murder two million Jews. Bergen, Doris (2009).
• 1942, victims daily moved by freight trains to camps .Killed in assembly line style.
• The genocide was carried out in stages, ending in what Nazis called the "Final Solution”plan to exterminate Jews in Europe Bergen, Doris (2009).
• German government passed laws to exclude Jews from civil society called Nuremberg laws.
• Nazis established a network of concentration camps starting in 1933.
• Ghettos created to segregate Polish Jews 1939.
• In 1941, paramilitary units called Einsatzgruppen murder two million Jews. Bergen, Doris (2009).
• 1942, victims daily moved by freight trains to camps .Killed in assembly line style.
ExTermination camps
Auschwitz, Belzec, Chełmno, Jasenovac, Majdanek, Maly Trostenets, Sobibór, Treblinka
• Extermination camps supplied with gas chambers for mass killing used.
• Auschwitz, Belzec, Chełmno, Jasenovac, Majdanek, Maly Trostenets, Sobibór, and Treblinka death camps used for mass gassing with Cyklon-B poison gas..
• The camps designed specifically for the mass gassings of Jews
• Built following the Wannsee Conference chaired by Reinhard Heydrich
• Principle set at conference that the Jews of Europe were to be exterminated. Responsibility for the execution of plan was to be executed administrator, Adolf Eichmann.
• Auschwitz, Belzec, Chełmno, Jasenovac, Majdanek, Maly Trostenets, Sobibór, and Treblinka death camps used for mass gassing with Cyklon-B poison gas..
• The camps designed specifically for the mass gassings of Jews
• Built following the Wannsee Conference chaired by Reinhard Heydrich
• Principle set at conference that the Jews of Europe were to be exterminated. Responsibility for the execution of plan was to be executed administrator, Adolf Eichmann.
pOgrOms
- "POGROMS WERE VIOLENT RIOTS WITH PURPOSE TO MASSACRE OR PERSECUTE ETHNIC OR RELIGIOUS GROUPS SUCH AS JEWS, A NUMBER OF DEADLY POGROMS OCCURRED DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR." ELON, AMOS (2002).PAGE 103.
- NAZIS PROVOKED SOME AND OTHERS ERUPTED ON THEIR OWN.
- NAZIS PROVOKED SOME AND OTHERS ERUPTED ON THEIR OWN.
LAB RATS
- Nazi human experimentation consisted of medical experiments on large numbers of Jewish prisoners, including children in its concentration camps. Black, Edwin (2004).
- Populations selected were Romani, Sinti, ethnic Poles, Soviet POWs, disabled Germans, and Jews from across Europe.
- Medical experimentation consisted of twins, freezing, head injury, malaria, bone muscle and nerve transplantation. Bogod, David. [2004]
- Populations selected were Romani, Sinti, ethnic Poles, Soviet POWs, disabled Germans, and Jews from across Europe.
- Medical experimentation consisted of twins, freezing, head injury, malaria, bone muscle and nerve transplantation. Bogod, David. [2004]
References: Royal E. Jackson
Amos, Elon (2002). The Pity of It All: A History of the Jews in Germany, 1743–1933. Metropolitan Books. ISBN 0-8050-5964-4. p. 103.
Bergen, Doris (2009). The Holocaust: A Concise History. Rowman & Littlefield.
Black, Edwin (2004). War against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race. United States: Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 1-56858-258-7. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
Bogod, David. "The Nazi Hypothermia Experiments: Forbidden Data?", Anaesthesia, Volume 59 Issue 12. Page 1155, December 2004.
Bergen, Doris (2009). The Holocaust: A Concise History. Rowman & Littlefield.
Black, Edwin (2004). War against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race. United States: Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 1-56858-258-7. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
Bogod, David. "The Nazi Hypothermia Experiments: Forbidden Data?", Anaesthesia, Volume 59 Issue 12. Page 1155, December 2004.