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WWIIThe Holocaust of Europe
andJapanese Internment Camps of
the U.S.A.
Holocaust• Genocide – effort to murder and entire people
or nationality• Jewish people are whom Hitler blamed all of
Germany’s problems on– Part of Hitler’s philosophy was intense hatred of
Jews• Holocaust refers to his attempted genocide of
the Jews during WWII• Final Solution – plan of Hitler and other Nazis
leaders to murder all European Jews
Holocaust• First Jews were shot next to open trenches
they had been forced to dig themselves.
Holocaust• When this method of extermination proved to slow
the Nazis, large concentration camps were built across Europe
• Jews sent to these camps in railroad cattle cars.• Upon arrival, most were killed with poison gas– Bodies burned in large ovens
• Some spared to work– Half were starved and worked under inhumane conditions
• About 6 million Jew – 2/3 living in Europe – killed during the Holocaust
• Another 6 million gypsies, Slavs, political prisoners, elderly, mentally-disabled and others also dies in Nazi concentration camps
Discussion Question
• Should the President ever be allowed to change the Constitution during War? – Why or Why not?
Holocaust Video
• After watching the video, how would you feel if this event was going on today?
• 1. What would you advise the President to do? Why?
• 2. What is your assessment (belief) of how E.O. 9066 was carried out?
• What is your opinion of the formal apology and reparation of payments?
Internment Video Clip• 3. Based on the interviews of those placed in
camps, how do you think they felt about being an American?
• What other options do you think the U.S. government could have considered instead of Internment Camps?
Life in an interment camp
• Write a 1 page letter/journal detailing what life might have been like in an Interment Camp