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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.”

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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”