The Final Solution

Nancy Thao 4A
Jewish Question
A plan to eliminate all Jews
Summer of 1941
Deadly
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What is it?
Nazi Party had power in Germany in 1933

Nazis set out to get rid of the Jews in the Soviet
Union
Gathered as much as they could

Make it a reality





What happened?
Anti-Jewish policy increaced
Ghettos
Western Europe and Polish Jews
Beginning of WWII
First the Germans kill them with guns and put their bodies in
pits.
Didnt work as well
Death camps
Number of deaths increased
Gas chambers
6,000 died
24/7, non-stop
Killing Centers
Operation Reinhard
A code given to the Nazi plan to murder the Polish jews
Most deadly phase
Introduced extermination camps
Madjanek
SS killed tens of thousands of Jews
152,000 were killed in gas vans
Not only Jews but Gypsies

Killing Centers
Himmler designated Auschwitz II
Murdered 1,000,000 Jews
German SS murdered 2,700,000 Jews



Killing Centers
1.1 million children were killed (an estimate)
The concentration camps were suppose to hold
people who didnt agree with Hitlers beliefs.
Nazi doctors conducted medical experiments on
prisoners.
Jews werent the only ones that were being targeted
Jews were being killed before the Holocaust even
began

Some not fun facts
http://library.thinkquest.org/trio/TTQ03068/finalsolution.htm
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005151
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Reinhard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution
http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/a/holocaustfacts.htm
http://0.tqn.com/d/history1900s/1/0/D/6/EasternEurope3.JPG
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_did_the_Final_Solution_begin?#slide=13


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