CLIL History

M3 The Holocaust The Extermination Planning The first consequence of the deportation of the Jews to Eastern Europe was their segregation in ghettos. One by one they all lost their rights and the simple chance to survive. Overcrowding, disease, and lack of food caused thousands of victims. Before the war concentration camps had been used to confine the opponents of the Nazi Party, who were German Communists, Socialists and Social Democrats. Other people belonging to minority groups, such as the Roma, Jehovah s Witnesses, homosexuals and persons accused of asocial or socially deNorway Finland Grini viant behaviour were also imprisoned in Berg Vaivara the camps. The camps were under the USSR administration of the SS, who exploited Sweden the prisoners as a captive labour force. North Kaiserwald Denmark Sea Baltic Those who were unable to work were Horserod Sea executed or died of starvation or disUnited Stutthof Kingdom Neuengamme Ravensbr ck Maly Trostenets Soldau ease. As the number of detainees inWesterbork Bergen- Sachsenhausen Potulice Netherlands Treblinka Belsen creased, many concentration camps Herzogenbosch Lager Sylt Germany Berlin Chelmno (Alderney) Mechelen were transformed into extermination Niederhagen Sobibor Belgium Gross-Rosen Drancy Auschwitz/ Majdanek Breitenau Buchenwald camps. The camps were built around Birkenau Paris Theresienstadt Belzec Flossenb rg Lety two structures. The first structure conPlaszow Hodonin Natzweiler-Struthof Dachau Mathausen Slovakia tained the poison-gas chambers where France Ebensee Vienna the prisoners were supposedly taken for Kistarcsa Switzerland Vichy Bolzano a shower and instead they were killed Hungary San Sabba Romania Asti with the lethal Zyklon B gas. The second Gurs Jasenovac Fossoli Vernet Sajmiste Ind. State structure was the crematoria, where the of Croatia Schabatz Topovske Supe Black Sea Italy Spain corpses coming from the gas chambers Crveni krst Servigliano Bulgaria Nish were burnt. Millions of Jews, political Dupnista Adriatic Skopje Sea prisoners, prisoners of war, people from Tyrrhenian Albania (Italy) minority groups and even the disabled Sea Greece Turkey were killed in the extermination camps. Extermination camp Countries occupied by Axis Concentration camp Allies Internment and transit camp Co-belligerent country with Axis Main deportation routes Neutral countries Axis powers Linea del fronte nel 1941-42 The extermination plan in Europe. Satellite States and allies of the Axis ACTIVITY 4.D After reading The Extermination Planning, work with a partner and try to analyze the map. Copy the chart in your workbook and complete it with the necessary information. What they were Where they were From To Concentration camps Extermination camps Ghettos Main deportation routes 29