3.3 The Holocaust (part 2)

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Chapter 3: The Second World War
3.3 The Holocaust (part 

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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.

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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).

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Einsatzgruppen
  • Death squads behind the Wehrmacht in Eastern Europe. 

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What can make 'ordinary men' do such things?

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Wannsee Conference (1942)
  • The Endlösung  (= final solution) was discussed here.
  • The Nazis started to use extermination camps.

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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).

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Why only Eastern Europe?

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Nuremberg Trials

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