Monday - Dentist Appointment Absent
Tuesday - Notes
German Invasion of USSR
- Final plan for Operation Barbarossa
- The invasion set by Hitler to take over Russia
Scorched Earth Policy
- Stalin demanded that the Soviet Troops would retreat and burn anything they left behind
Battle for Moscow
- The Soviet Winter Counteroffensive - December 6th, 1941 - April 30th, 1942
- The Russian winter sets in and make is a huge turning point in the war
Battle of Stalingrad
August 1942 - February 1943
- 2 million casualties combined from both sides
- The turning point on the Eastern Front, but also the turning point of the entire WWII
Siege of Leningrad
- On August 30th 1941, the Germans took over Leningrad's railroads, cutting them off from the rest of Russia and the world
- Unlike the Battle of Stalingrad, the Germans surrounded the city to starve the city into submission
- Between November 1941 and October 1942, 641,000 people died of starvation
- People resorted to eating rats, wallpaper paste and some resorted to cannibalism
- A successful Russian counter-offensive at Stalingrad forced the Germans to move troops there and eventually, the siege failed
- The Germans never took Leningrad, but it was one of the most costly conflicts Russia ever faced - over one million died
Wednesday - Notes
Operation Torch (November, 1942)
- The US and Britain invading North Africa
- 7 months later the war in North Africa was over
Operation Avalanche (September, 1943)
- Massive invasion from the South by US and Britain on Italy
Allies Liberate Rome (Late 1944)
Normandy Landing (June 6, 1944)
The Liberation of Paris (August 25, 1944)
- Paris is liberated
Thursday - Notes
What is the Aryan Race
- Master Race to the Nazis
- Perfect Aryan was blonde, blue-eyed, tall and muscular
What was Inferior According to Hitler?
- Jews - 6 million dead
- Gypsies - 500,000 to 1.5 million
- Mentally / Physically handicapped people - 75,000 to 250,000
- Poles - 2.5 million
- Homosexuals - 5 to 15 thousand
- Communists / socialists - many but no confirmed #
- Dark skinned people - death and forced sterilization
- Mixed races -
- Jehovah's Witnesses - 2,500 to 5,000
Hitler's 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 are 200 communists.
- Jews are prohibited from working as a government worker, doctors in the National Health Service, and teachers in public high schools
- Most Jewish students are banned from public high schools and college
Friday - Notes
Nuremburg Laws 1935
- Took away German citizenship from Jews thus making Jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights
- If 1 out of 4 of your grandparents were Jewish you were considered Jewish
Jews could only marry Jews
- No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews
Nuremburg Laws 1936
- Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses
Kristallnacht - 1938
- Nazis went to Jewish parts of town and destroyed Jewish churches, businesses, and homes
- 26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps
- Jews were physically attacked and beaten and 91 died in the attack
1938
- All Jewish children are expelled from public schools in Germany and Austria
- Nazis take control of Jewish-owned businesses
1939
- Hitler orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically disabled people in Germany and Austria
- Jews are required to wear armbands or yellow stars
1940
- Nazis begin deporting German Jews to Poland
- Jews are forced into Ghettos
- Nazis begin the first mass murder of Jews in Poland
1941
- Jews throughout Eastern Europe are forced into Ghettos
- In two days, German units shoot 33,771 Ukrainian Jews at BabiYar - the largest single massacre in the holocaust
1942
- Nazis officials announce "final solution" - their plan to kill all European Jews
- Five death camps begin operation in Poland
- Ghettos of Eastern Europe are being emptied as thousands of Jews are shipped to death camps
- The United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union acknowledge that Germans are exterminating the Jews of Europe
1943
- Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto resist as the Nazis begin new rounds of deportation. These Jews hold out for nearly a month before the Nazis put down the uprising
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