HOLOCAUST

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

INDEX
❏ NAZI RULE - INTRODUCTION
❏ SA e SS
❏ HITLER IDEAS
❏ THE "FINAL SOLUTION"
❏ AUSCHWITZ
❏ IMPORTANT IMAGES
❏ SUMMARY MAP
❏ SITOGRAPHY
NAZI RULE - introduction
When it speaks to the Holocaust, the first
person that comes to mind is Adolf Hitler,
who was appointed chancellor of Germany
on January 30, 1933, ending German
democracy. Hitler and the others followed
racist and authoritarian ideas, abolished all
freedoms starting from the basic ones to
create a Volk community.
Adolf Hitler
 NAZI RULE - introduction
Among Hitler's many mistakes was to force political parties and state
states to unite with Nazi goals and to stay under Nazi leadership.
Culture, economics, education and law came under greater Nazi control.
After the unions were abolished, many were forced to join Nazi
organizations, the main ones being workers, employees and employers,
and finally, in mid-July 1933, the Nazi party was the only authorized
political party in Germany.

The rise of Hitler and his nazi party was easy because many still had hate
and depression because of the great defeats and losses of the first world
war.
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The Nazis appealed above all to the unemployed, young people and
members of the lower middle class (owners of small shops, office
workers, artisans and farmers).
Hitler and other Nazi leaders viewed Jews not as a religious group, but

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as a poisonous "race" that "lived" and weakened other races. Everyone
had to abide by the rules, so even teachers who had to measure Jewish
pupils and very often Jews and Gypsies were
humiliated in these processes.
People lost their right to privacy, so officials could
read people's mails, listen to telephone conversations
and search for private homes without a warrant.
HITLER IDEAS
Adolf Hitler has always been obsessed with his race ideas. In his
many speeches and writings, Hitler spread his convictions about the
racial "purity" and superiority of the "Germanic race", also called
"master race" or "Aryan race". He has repeatedly stated that his

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race must remain pure in order to one day conquer the world. For
Hitler, the "Aryan" ideal was blond, with blue eyes and tall.

When Hitler and the Nazis came to power, these beliefs became the
ideology of the government obligatorily and spread in publicly
displayed posters, on the radio, in films, in classrooms and in
newspapers.
 THE “FINAL SOLUTION”
In a nutshell, the "final solution" consisted of gas, shootings, random acts of
terror, disease and hunger that caused the death of about six million Jews,

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two thirds of European Jews.
There were many events that aimed to destroy and eliminate the "Jewish
race" altogether.
Polish and Western European Jews were deported to these ghettos and
concentration camps. The extermination camps were
extermination centers designed to carry out the genocide
and the most important were Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor,
Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek
 SA SS
The two most important paramilitary formations were: SA
and SS, which on June 30, 1934 definitively defeated
the first. This purge is known as "Long Knife Night".

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AUSCHWITZ PEOPLE

The largest camp established by the Germans was Auschwitz, which was
a complex of camps, including a concentration camp, an extermination
camp and forced labor. It was located near Krakow, Poland. More than a
million people lost their lives in Auschwitz, nine out of ten Jews.

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At the entrance there is a sign with Arbeit macht frei written on it, which
means "work makes one free". In fact, it was true but inversely that is the
Nazi genocide which they called "extermination through work".

Auschwitz was very protected, had electric barbed wire fences

everywhere, it was almost impossible. Wherever you turned, the guards
were equipped with machine guns and automatic rifles.
PEOPLE- LIFE IN THE CAMP
The victims were stripped, shaved and tattooed with a registration number on the left
forearm. They always had the usual dirty clothes. They lived in horrible conditions in
small barracks where the ratio was 36 beds for 500 people but with only one bucket

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for the bathroom.

FOOD - watery soup made with rotten vegetables and meat, a few ounces of bread,
a bit of margarine, tea, or a bitter drink resembling coffee.

WORK - man - forced laborers were within the camp, in the kitchen or as barbers

- women - ordered prisoners' piles of shoes, clothes and other belongings

The time of life on the pitch was a few months and for the lucky ones only a few
weeks.
IMPORTANT IMAGES

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German territorial losses, Nazi Parade
Treaty of Versailles, 1919

The swastika, a symbol of

Adolf Hitler National Socialism
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SITOGRAPHY
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