1. WWII
The Holocaust of Europe
and
Japanese Internment Camps of
the U.S.A.

2. Holocaust
• Genocide – effort to murder and entire people
or nationality
• Jewish people are whom Hitler blamed all of
Germany’s problems on
– Part of Hitler’s philosophy was intense hatred of
Jews
• Holocaust refers to his attempted genocide of
the Jews during WWII
• Final Solution – plan of Hitler and other Nazis
leaders to murder all European Jews

3. Holocaust
• First Jews were shot next to open trenches
they had been forced to dig themselves.

4. Holocaust
• When this method of extermination proved to
slow the Nazis, large concentration camps were
built across Europe
• Jews sent to these camps in railroad cattle cars.
• Upon arrival, most were killed with poison gas
– Bodies burned in large ovens
• Some spared to work
– Half were starved and worked under inhumane
conditions
• About 6 million Jew – 2/3 living in Europe – killed
during the Holocaust
• Another 6 million gypsies, Slavs, political
prisoners, elderly, mentally-disabled and others
also dies in Nazi concentration camps

6. Discussion Question
• Should the President ever be allowed to
change the Constitution during War?
– Why or Why not?

7. Holocaust Video
• After watching the video, how would you feel
if this event was going on today?

9. • 1. What would you advise the President to
do? Why?

11. • 2. What is your assessment (belief) of how
E.O. 9066 was carried out?

13. • What is your opinion of the formal apology
and reparation of payments?

14. Internment Video Clip
• 3. Based on the interviews of those placed in
camps, how do you think they felt about being
an American?
• What other options do you think the U.S.
government could have considered instead of
Internment Camps?

15. Life in an interment camp
• Write a 1 page letter/journal detailing what
life might have been like in an Interment
Camp