Monday- No School
Tuesday-
General Eisenhower gave the orders for D-Day (June 6th, 1944)
- Invaded the beaches of Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword
- Attack made by United States, Great Britan, and Canida
- Succes of Liberation of Paris: August 25, 1944
Battle of The Buldge
- Hitler's Last Offensive
US and Russian Soldiers Meet at the Elbe River in Germany
- Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945
- He shot himself and his wife took poisin
Holocaust
- The genocide of approximately six million European Jews during WW2
- A systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany throughout Nazi-occupied territory.
- Two-thirds fo the population of 9 million jews died
- Total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million people
Aryan Race
- Nazis so-called master race originated from Germany
- Perfect Blonde, blue-eyed, tall and muscular
- people speaking a Indo-European dialect.
Inferior According to Hitler
- Jews (6 million killed)
- Gypsies (500,000-1.5 million)
- Mentally/Physically handicapped people (75,000-250,000)
- Soviet Slavs/POW's/Troops (16.5 million)
- Poles(2.5 million)
- Homosexuals (5-15 thousand)
- Communists
- Dark Skinned people
- Mixed Races
- Jehobah's Witnesses (2,500-5,000)
Wednesday- Lebensborn-Fount of Life
- The program aimed to promote Aryan populations probiding excellent helath care and living conditions to women who were Aryan.
- Houses were set up throughout Germany and many occupied territories
- Many Lebensborn children were born uneed mothers led to many rumors of rape
- Contray to rumors, women were not forced to have relations with Aryan Germans.
Hitler's Jewish Question- 1933
- What are we going to do with the Jews?- Genocide
- 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.
- 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
- Took away German citizenship from Jews thus amkingn Jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights.
- Ddefined the Jewish race as being anyone who either considered themselves Jewish or had three or four Jewish grandparents
- Jews could only marry Jews
- No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews
1936
- Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses
Kristallnacht-1938 "Night of the Broken Glass"
- On the nights the Nazis roamed through Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burning synagogues and looting.
- In all, 101 synagogues were destroed and almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed
- 26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration campsJews were physically attacked and beaten and 91 died in the attack.
1938-Cont.
- All Jewish childeren are expelled from public schools in Germany and Austria
- Nazis took control of Jewish-owned businesses
1939
- Hitler orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically disabled in Germany and Austria
- Jews are requred 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 of the Holocaust
- The death camp at Chelmno in Poland begins murdering Jews
1942
- Nazi officials announce "Final Solution" - their plan to kill all European Jews
- Five death camps begin operation in Poland: Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau
1943
- Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto resist as the Nazis begin new rounds of deportations.
- These Jews hold out for nearly a month before the Nazis put down the uprising
1945
- Hitler is defeated and World War II end in Europe
- The Holocaust is over and the death camps are emptied
- What happened to the Jews that survived?
- Many survivors are placed in displaced persons camps until they find a country willing to accept them.
- Amenians, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Yugoslavs, Jews, Greeks, Russians, Ukranians, and Czechoslovaks
1947
The United Nations establishes a Jewish homeland in British-controlled Palestine, which becmoes the State of Israel in 1948/
Thursday-' Gone for IJC
Friday- watched WW2 documentary
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