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Monday-

Movie Reviews.

Results In May, 1941, Germany decided to focus on attacking british ships and ports  and thus stopped attacking cities 

British losses around 40,000 cavilians dead and 100,000 injured

German 3,400 aircrew and 2,265 aircraft

Scorched Earth policy Stalin demanded this of the soviet trrops as they retreated. (set fire to anything possible) 

Tuesday-

The North Africa Campaign June, 1940 - May, 1943

Operation Torch - November, 1942

US and British forces invade North Africa.

By May 194, Axis forces surrendered in North Africa

The Campaign would now shift to the islands in the Mediterranean sea

Battle of the buldge

Hitlers last offensive

Dec, 16 1944 - Jan. 28th, 1945

Last offensive push to get to the sea (push allies back to the sea) well circle them and then they should surrender. 

US& Russian soldiers Meet at the Elbe River ( in Germany) April 25, 1945 

Wednesday-

Battle of the buldge

Hitlers last offensive

Dec, 16 1944 - Jan. 28th, 1945

Last offensive push to get to the sea (push allies back to the sea) well circle them and then they should surrender. 

US& Russian soldiers Meet at the Elbe River ( in Germany) April 25, 1945 

Thursday-

The Holocaust 

The Genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II 

A program of systematic state  sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany through Nazi- occupied territory.

Aprproximatley two thirds of the population of nine million jews who had lived in Europe before the Halocaust died

Some say that the definition of the holocause should also include the Nazis killing of millions of people in other groups from Germany and other occumpied territory

By this definition, the total number of Holocause victims would be between 11-17 million people.

Hitlers jewish question 1933

Nazis temporarily suspend civil liberties for all citizens in 1933 - never restored

The Nazis set up the first concentration camp at Dachau in 1933 the first inmates were 200 communist

Jew are prohibited from working as civil servants, doctors in the national health service, and teachers in public high schools 

Most Jewish students are banned from public high schools and colleges

Nuremburg Laws 1935

1. Took away German citizenship from Jews thus making Jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights.

2. Established membership in the Jewish race as being anyone who either considered themselves Jewish or had three or four Jewish Grandparents People with one or two Jewish grandparents were considered to be mixed race.  

3. Jews could only marry jews

4. No sexual relations between non Jewish Germans and Jews.

1936

Noazis boycott jewish owned businesses

Kristallnacht - 1938

"night of the brokedn glass"

Broke windows and burned down jewish stores and houses.

 

Friday-

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