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PowerPoint® Presentations in World History
The Holocaust
By Elizabeth A. Ten Dyke, Ph.D
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The Holocaust
The Genocide of Europe’s Jewry
Reflections
• What do you know about the Holocaust?• What do you want to know about the Holocaust?
Studying theHolocaust
History of Jewish Persecution Nazis’ Anti-Jewish Ideology
and Rise to Power
Nazi Persecution of the Jews andthe “Final Solution”
Aftermath
Who Are theJews?
• Descendants of Abrahamand Sarah
• The Jewish tribes conqueredCannan (Israel) in ~1000BCE after leaving Egypt(the Exodus)
• Set up independent kingdomunder King David
• Conquered by Romans in 70CE which began thedispersion of Jewsthroughout Europe andMiddle East (the Diaspora) Sculpture of Moses
Anti-Semitism• Term coined in
1879• Anti-Jewish
sentiment hadexisted forhundreds ofyears beforethat
“The Eternal Jew,” an anti-Semitic book
Christian Anti-Semitism
• Denied civil rights
• Permitted synagogueburnings
• Occupationalexclusion
• Yellow badges
• Massacres
• Ghettos
• Expulsions Fresco depicting the crucifixion of Jesus
“The missionaries of Christianity had said in effect, you haveno right to live among us as Jews. The secular rulers whofollowed had proclaimed: you have no right to live among us.The German Nazis at last decreed: you have no right to live.”
—
Dead bodiesstacked beneathChristmas wreathsat Buchenwald
Raul Hilberg
Martin Luther
• 1483–1546• Started the Protestant
Reformation• Published “On the Jews
and their Lies”• Called for the burning of
synagogues• His work was honored by
the Nazis
Martin Luther
Foundations for Nazi Anti-Semitism
Weimar Republic• Political conflicts
brought outtensions betweenleftist, rightist, andcentrist parties
• This 1930 postersupports thesocialist “List 1”party against theNazis and thecentrists
“List 1 SPD [socialists]:Against the Centrists and the Swastika”