Vwo 3 tto: WW2 - lesson 5

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Vwo 3 tto: WW2

Lesson 5

Start of the lesson

Sit in your spot

Phone (off/silent) in phonebag

Books + laptop on table

Menu of the day

Introduction

Factory-like slaughter

Genocide

Introduction

What is hate towards Jews called?

Why were Jews a convenient scapegoat?

Trapped

Discrimination against Jews increased under the Nazi regime; this led to the Reichskristallnacht (see source 2)

• They lost their citizenship rights, had to wear a yellow star and had to live in ghetto's.
  
• They were then sent to concentration camp where they had to work hard.

Factory-like slaughter

• In 1942 the Nazis gathered to plan the total extermination of the Jews​
  
• This meeting was called the Wannsee Conference​
  
• The plan was called Endlösung (Final Solution)​

Factory-like slaughter

• The nazis build special extermination camps in Poland
• Jews and other undesirables were moved here from concentration camps
• What do the following pictures tell about Auschwitz?

Factory-like slaughter

• It wasn’t just Jews, also Sinti & Roma, homosexual, criminals, political opponents (communists)​
  
• 6 million of them died (mostly Jews): Holocaust

Genocide

• What is a genocide?
• There are 10 stages --> you can either read about them (wikipedia) or watch short videos about them (youtube: Genocide Watch Official)
• Your task is to match these stages with the events of WW2: how did the nazis do this?

How did the Nazis classify the Jews?