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Wwii Holocaust Powerpoint
Wwii Holocaust Powerpoint
• What is genocide?
What is genocide?
• It is a very specific term, referring to
violent crimes committed against groups
with the intent to destroy the existence of
the group.
• Are there other genocides other than the
Holocaust?
How did it start?
By late 1941, the first Jews
from Germany and
western Europe were
gathered and moved,
along with many other
minorities, to
concentration camps in:
Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, and
western Russia, where they were
first used as slaves and then
murdered.
In the first years of the war…
- the gas chambers of the
later Nazi concentration
camps were not yet
common