The Holocaust (rest of story)

Who were ALL of the targets? (8)

Jews, Polish, Soviets, disabled, Jehovah Witnesses, communists, gays, Gypsies (Roma)

What legal actions against Jews were implemented?

• Star of David patch

• Mandatory first names: Sarah or Israel

• Can’t buy meat, eggs, or milk

• No pets

List the three types of concentration camps

1. Light labor: containment - good skills

2. Hard labor: breaking - physically strong

3. Extermination: killing

What would happen to the prisoners?

Shaved, tattoos, no gold teeth, fed 200-400 calories, wooden shoes, coarse clothing

Einsatzgruppen

Mobile killing squads

What were the experiments?

Nazis could dissect anyone they wanted in any way they wanted

Dr. Joseph Mengele

Well known for being twin obsessed

What was the horse pen? Describe the process.

• for Soviet POWs

• Enter into a room to “measure your height”, Nazi’s would snipe them in the back of the head on beat with the loud ahh music

How did Germany lose the war?

• Allies invade Germany and Poland

• SS try to destroy all of their evidence

Violette Szabo

• French-British spy

• During a mission in France she got taken by the Nazis and executed in Ravensbrück concentration camp

• the first British woman to be awarded the George Cross