Tuesday
• Ge. Eisenhower gives the Orders for D-Day (“Operation Overlord”)
• The Atlantic Wall
• D-Day June 6, 1944
o Map
• The Liberation of Paris: August 25, 1944
• July 20, 1944 Assassination Plot
o Major Claus von Stauffenberg
o Pictures
• The Battle of the Bulge
o Hitler’s Last Offensive
o Dec. 16 – Jan. 28
o Pictures
• Cartoon
• US and Russian Soldiers Meet at the Elbe River (in Germany): April 25, 1945
• Hitler commits suicide April 30, 1945
o Pictures
• V-E (Victory in Europe) Day (May 8, 1945)
o Pictures
o General Keitel
• Nazi Propaganda
• The Holocaust
o The genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War 2
o A program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany throughout Nazi-occupied territory
o Approximately two thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had lived in Europe before the Holocaust died
o Some say that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazi’s killing of millions of people in other groups from Germany and other occupied territory
• Genocide 1948- United Nations
o Killing members of the group
o Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members if the group
o Deliberately inflicting of the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
o Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
o Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
• What is the Aryan Race?
o Nazi used term to refer to a so-called master race that originated around Germany
o Perfect Aryan was blonde, blue-eyed, tall and muscular
o The original term refers to a people speaking a Indo-European dialect
• Who was Inferior According to Hitler?
o Jews (6 million dead)
o Gypsies (500,000 to 1,5 million)
o Mentally/physically handicapped people (75,000 to 250,000)
o Soviet Slavs/…
o Poles (5-15 thousand dead)
o Communists/socialists
o Dark skinned people (death and forced sterilization)
o Mixed races
o Jehova’s Witnesses (2,500-5,000)
Wednesday
• Lebensborn- Fount of Life
o The program aimed to promote the growth of “superior” Aryan populations by providing excellent health care and living conditions to women who were of the Aryan Race
o Houses were set up throughout Germany and many occupied territory
o Many Lebensborn children were born to unwed mothers led to many rumors of rape
o Contrary to rumors, women were not forced to have relations with Aryan Germans
• Hitler’s final solution
o Genocide, kill all Jews
o Nazis “temporarily” suspend civil liberties for all citizens in 1933-Never restored.
o The Nazis set up the first concentration camp at Dachau in 1933. The first inmates are 200 Communists
o Jews are prohibited from working as civil servants, doctors in the National Health Service, and teachers in public high schools
o Most Jewish students are banned from public high schools and colleges
• Nuremburg Laws-1935
o Took away German citizenship from Jews thus making Jews second class citizen by removing their basic civil rights
o Defined 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 races
Eventually anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent was at risk in Germany
o Jews could only marry Jews
o No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews
• 1936
o Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses
• Kristallnacht-1938
o On the nights of November 9 and 10, 1938, the Nazis roamed through Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burning synagogues and looting
o In all, 101 synagogues were destroyed and almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed
o 26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps
o Jews were physically attacked ad beaten and 91 died in the attack
• Pictures
• 1938-Cont.
o All Jewish children are expelled from public schools in Germany and Austria
o Nazis take control of Jewish-owned businesses
• 1939
o Hitler orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically disabled in Germany and Austria
o Jews are required to wear armbands or yellow stars
• 1940
o Nazis begin deporting Jews to Poland
o Jews are forced into ghettos
o Nazis begin the first mass murder of Jews in Poland
• 1941
o Jews throughout Eastern Europe are forced into ghettos
o In two days, German units shoot 33,771 Ukrainian Jews at BabiYar- the largest single massacre of the Holocaust
o The death camp at Chelmno in Poland begins murdering Jews
• Auschwitz
• Pictures of Nazi Death Camps
• 1942
o Nazi officials announce “Final Solution”- their plan to kill all European Jews
o Five death camps begin operation in Poland: Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau
o Ghettos of Eastern Europe are being emptied
• 1943
o Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto resist as the Nazis begin new rounds of deportations
o These Jews hold out for nearly a month before the Nazis put down the uprising
• 1945
o Hitler is defeated and World War 2 ends in Europe
o The Holocaust is over and the death camps are emptied
o Many survivors are placed in displaced persons camps until they find a country willing to accept them
• Displaced Person Camps
o Some 850,000 people lived in Displaced Person Camps across Europe
o Armenians, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Yugoslavs, Jews, Greeks, Russians, Ukrainians,…
• 1947
o The United Nations establishes a Jewish homeland in British-controlled Palestine, which becomes the State of Israel in 1948
• Videos
Thursday
• Start WW2 movie
Friday
• Continuing the WW2 movie
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