4.6 The Netherlands during WW2 (Holocaust part 2)

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The Holocaust (part 2)

4.6 The Netherlands during WW2

At the end of this lesson...

• You will be able to explain the difference between concentration camps, transportation camps and extermination camps. 
• You will be able to tell when the Nazi's started using extermination camps.  

What do you remember from the last lesson?

Genocide

• Meaning:  The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

Transportation Camps

• People were send here before being send to concentration- or extermination camps.

• Examples: Westerbork and Vught.

Concentration camps

• Contain prisoners in one place without trial.
• Prisoners were usually subjected to forced labor.
• Initially: primarily political prisoners (''enemies of the state'')
• Example: Dachau (1933-1945).

Extermination camps

•  People were transported here from deportation camps (ex. Westerbork). 
• People were seperated at arrival. 
• Those not fit to work went to the gas chamber.
• Only in Eastern Europe (Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka).

Wannsee Conference (1942)

• The Endlösung  (= final solution) was discussed here.
• The Nazis started to use extermination camps.

Homework

Exercise 1 to 5 paragraph 4.6