Holocaust+Study+Guide

Create a study guide for your topic by answering the following questions/themes below: **Genocide is the systematic destruction of a whole ethnic, Racial, religious, or national group. Some examples from history are the Holocaust in which millions of people were killed by the Nazis, Rwanda were 1 million people were killed, and Darfur Sudan were 450,000 people have been killed so far.** The short term consequences of the holocaust were: Many different races died in some of the most brutal ways. Ex: Jews, gypsies, Slavics, Ethnic poles, Romani, disabled, freemasons, homosexuals, and Jehovah’s witnesses. The races were brutally exterminated and hated on and have never fully recovered from it. Some of the long term effects of the holocaust were: Most of the Jews and other ethnic groups that survived the concentration camps had really bad infections in the heart, and lungs. The longterm effects are that the Jews and other minorties have been hurt and discriminated and will never be the same after the Holocaust. Jackie, Olivia, and Ashley 1. The treatment of the Jews started in the 1930's because of racial discrimination. Hitler had gained power and had started taking over different countries, which led to him controling populations of people as well. The Jews did not fit into Hitler's futuristic picture. Thus, Hitler formed the "Final Solution" in order to get rid of the entire population of Jews, and to attempt to racially dominate the world. The Nazi's formed ghettos, or places in Jewish cities where they quarentined and condensed several thousands of Jews before deportation. In these ghettos, the Jews were starved, beaten, and sometimes shot. They were put in forced labor camps and were used by the Nazi's to murder their fellow Jews. After the Final Solution was in order, all the ghettos were destroyed. The Jews were shot and then dumped ito mass graves or deported to concentration camps. Once they arrived at the concentration camps, they were quarentined into barracks. The Nazi's chose several Jews and performed experiments on them, while others were just taken to be murdered. The tgree most popular methods used by the Nazi's in order to get rid of the Jewish population were gassing, shooting, and burning. Over three million Jews were killed in extermination camps. In 1944, allied troops began to move across Europe and encountered these different types of camps. The Germans tried to deny their envolvement and knowledge of the camps. However, becaues of the hasty evacuations of the camps, many gas chambers were left standing and left behind evidence of many mass murders. Finally, by 1945, the camps were liberated. A few thousand prisoners survived, however most of the Jewish population had been terminatied. 2. Genocide is the mass destruction of an entire racial, cultural, religious, or political group. This term did not excist in 1944 during the holocaust but was developed to describe the Nazi systimatic murder to exterminate all Jews. Another example of genocide is the killing at Rwanda. On April 6th 1994 a Habyarimana's Plane was shot down by Hutu extremists killing the Rwanda president Habyarimana and the Burundian president. This started the Genocide, the Rwanda army and Hutu Militia went from house to house killing any one who was a tutsis. Civilians went to Burundi trying the excape the slaughter but many were left behind. The genocide stoped a few months later, there was an estimated 800,000 people who were killed. 3. Some short-term consequences of the Holocaust include there being a lower population of Jews due to the mass murders carried out by the Nazi's. Another short-term consequense of the Holocaust was that cities had been destroyed due to the Nazi's trying to cover up thier actions. After the concentration and extermination camps had been created, ghettos were no longer needed. The ghettos had been established in Jewish communities and cities. Thus, many cities had been destroyed. A long-term consequence of the Holocaust was that the Germans had to recover from another war. Also at this time the Germans endured the emotional and physical reprecautions of what happened to millions of people. The Nazi's and german police who carried out the monsterous actions will have the memories of murder and death embedded in thier memories forever.
 * Trace the treatment of Jews from the early 1930's to the end of the war:
 * What is genocide? What are some real life examples today of genocide? A:
 * What were the short-term and long-term consequences of the Holocaust? A: (patrick Hickey- don't delete my stuff)