The Holocaust
Examples of Genocide in the Modern World
- Armenian genocide
- The holocaust
- The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia
- Rwandan massacre
- Bosnian genocide
- Darfur genocide
Causes of the Holocaust
- Nazi’s rise of power
- Nazi propaganda
- Failure of Évian Conference
- Concentration and Extermination camps
- Wannsee Conference
- Nazi racial theories
What was the Holocaust?
The Holocaust was the deliberate killing of Jews and other groups by the Nazis
How was the Holocaust carried out?
- Death marches
- Cremation
- Mass graves
- Zyklon-B: poisonous gas
- Exhaust fumes from trucks
- Jews separated from camps
- Jews transported to camps
- Jews confined to ghettos
- Sent to concentration camps
- Plans to deport Jews to Madagascar
- SS killing squads
- Hitler’s final solution
- Wannsee Conference
- Six extermination Camps
Consequences
- 6 million Jews killed
- Nuremberg war trials
- People were displace
- Foundation of Israel
- Wars between countries due to establishment of Israel