The holocaust by h. plouffe

The
Holocaust

An examination of
the crimes of the
Nazis

Yellow - Jew
Brown - Gypsy
Violet - Jehovah's
Witness
Pink - Homosexual
Green - Habitual
criminal
Red - Political
prisoner
Black - Asocial
Blue - Emigrant

SHOAH - a great terrible
wind
(Hebrew)

SHOAH - a great terrible
wind
(Hebrew)

HOLOCAUST(Greek): Holos
means “whole”, caustos
means
“burnt”.

HOLOCAUST is an example
of GENOCIDE.

The United Nations
Convention of 1948 defines
genocide as
“acts committed to destroy
in whole or in part a national,
ethnical, racial or religious

Genocide in History

!1904-5: annihilation of Herero
in Africa by German settlers.

Genocide in History

!1904-5: annihilation of Herero
in Africa by German settlers.
!1915-16: Turks massacre 1 M.
Armenians.

German
Imperialism
in S.W. Africa
(Namibia)

!1965-66: 1 M communists and
their families massacred by
Indonesian army.
!1972: 150,000 Hutus
massacred by ruling Tutsis in
Burundi.

!1975-79: Up to 2 M.
Cambodians murdered by
Khmer Rouge in Kampuchea.

!1975-79: Up to 2 M.
Cambodians murdered by
Khmer Rouge in Kampuchea.
!1975-2002: 200,000 Timorese
murdered by Indonesian army.

!Brazilian Indians by
destruction of rainforests.
!“Ethnic Cleansing” in former
Yugoslavia.

Two Approaches to
Examining this history:

Two Approaches to
!When they examine the factors which
enabled the Holocaust to occur they are
then what is called FUNCTIONALIST.

Two Approaches to
!When they examine the factors which
enabled the Holocaust to occur they are
then what is called FUNCTIONALIST.
!When they believe that from the moment
of the Nazis gaining of power that all
Jewry was to be annihilated then this is
what is called an INTENTIONALIST.

Steps to Genocide

1. You have no right to live
among us as Jews.

Steps to Genocide

2. You have no right to live
among us.

Steps to Genocide

3. You have no right
to live.

Anti-Semitism: A History
!Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

!The revolutions in Judea under
Roman rule…Diaspora.

!The Crusades.

!The Crusades.
!The Enlightenment.

!The Crusades.
!The Enlightenment.
!19th Century nationalism.

!In the late 19th cent. Jews were
seen as anti-nationalist: they
were Zionists.

Two Peoples One

!Sephardim: means
Spain; refers to
Jews in the
Mediterranean
basin.
!They speak
Ladino; eat
couscous; listen to
Oriental music.

!Ashkenazim: means
Germany; all Jews
living in western,
central and eastern
Europe…and North
America.
!Speak Yiddish:
Hebrew + Medieval
German.
!Listen to Slavic
melodies.

The Nazi Approach

!Step One:
!Nuremberg Laws (1935)
!Jews could not enjoy German
citizenship
!Step Two:
!Forced ghettoization.
Especially in Poland.

!Step Three:
!The Final Solution 1942
!Killing factories.

!The Evian Conference, July, 1938:
Many countries discuss why they
can’t accept refugees.
!“Suppose the conference actually
does find territories other than
Palestine to shelter Jewish
refugees? If other doors are open,
it will damage Zionism in
Palestine! Better the conference
comes to no decision.” David Ben-

!“If the international Jewish
financiers in and outside Europe
should succeed in plunging the
nations once more into a world
war, then the result will be not
the Bolshevization of the earth
and thus the victory of Jewry,
but the annihilation of the
Jewish race in Europe.” Hitler,

!There was a plan to ship Jews
to Madagascar, but with Britain
still fighting on, this was
scrapped in the summer of 1940.
!Shipped to centralized locations
in Poland; ghettos (once more).
!Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin

!“Non-productive” Jews were taken
out of the ghettos for “resettlement”.
!The approach to a solution.

The Final Solution
!Several ways of mass killing
were utilized, but they were
slow and psychologically painful
on the murderers: shooting and
carbon-monoxide.
!Solution: Zyklon B

!On January 20, 1942, the aims
of the Final Solution were
dictated:
!11 million JEWS in Europe. 4.5
are in German held areas, 5 are
in Russia.

!All are to be gathered in the
East.
!They are to be used as slave
labour. Most will die from
disease, starvation, and
brutality.
!Jews will be taken to transit
ghettos and then to camps.

The Economics of the
Final Solution.

!Nearly 500,000 slave labourers
were used in German industry.
!Many companies found in
Germany today utilized this force:
Krupp Steel, I.G. Furban
Chemicals, Siemans, Graetz, and
Krone-Presswerk.
!Most produced war material.

Auschwitz-Birkinau
!The most
infamous
camp: 1/5th of
all killings
!3 camps
!Zyklon-B used
in gassing.
Thirty minutes.

!12,000 a day
!In two
months the
entire Jewish
population of
Hungary was
murdered.

Jewish Resistance

!No chances
!Many collaborated with Nazis to
hunt down Jewish people.
!Warsaw Ghetto, April 18, 1943.
!Treblinka Death Camp
Rebellion, summer, 1943.

!By December, 1941, reports had
been received by the allies of the
genocide going on.
!Two Czech Jews that had
escaped from Auschwitz had
evidence of what was happening
and numbers; both were

!By August, 1944, aerial
photographs of Auschwitz
were taken.
!Chimneys of the
crematoria could be seen.

!Rather than bomb that, the
Americans aimed at Auschwitz
III, the synthetic rubber factory.
!In the end it was felt that
bombing death camps would
endanger crews.

War Crimes and Trials
!Holocaust crimes were not
pursued as fervently as other
crimes.

crimes.
!Especially by the British.

crimes.
!Of the thousands involved in the
Holocaust only a fraction have
been brought to justice.

crimes.
!Of the thousands involved in the
Holocaust only a fraction have
been brought to justice.
!More Japanese soldiers/leaders
were executed than Germans.

!Many prominent businessmen
who benefited by the slave
labour, were not punished, or
were given light sentences.

The Endurance of Anti-
Semitism

!In Poland nine months after the
war, more than one thousand
Jews were murdered in a series
of pogroms.
!Revisionist historians seek to
prove that the Holocaust is a
Jewish conspiracy.

Comfort Women:
Sex slaves for
Japanese Soldiers

!One woman was required for every
thirty-five soldiers.
!100,000 plus women were forced
into this.
!Eighty percent were Korean.
!The rest Taiwanese or Filipino.

!Few of them have ever been
compensated.

POW Abuse & Murder

Death rate for POWs in Nazi
camps: 3%

POW Abuse & Murder

Death rate for POWs in Nazi
camps: 3%

Death rate for POWs in
Japanese camps: 37%.

Nanjing Massacre Dec. ‘37- Mar. ‘38

Nanjing Massacre Dec. ‘37- Mar. ‘38

300,000 massacred Chinese
were in Nanjing.
Over 20,000 women were
raped.

Japanese Diet members commemorating
the service of their war criminals, i.e. Matsui
Iwane of the Nanking Massacre
http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/NanjingMassacre/
NMB&J.html

Canadian Crimes…Somalia

!Canadian Airborne
Regiment on U.N.
Peacekeeping Mission
to Belet Huen,
Somalia.
!Under U.N. Charter 7,
same as Korean War
and Gulf War.
!Somalia was engaged
in a civil war.

!Members tortured a
Somali boy, Aaron, till
he died from his
wounds.
!The mission met with
violence every day.
!They did meet their
objectives.

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