March 13th - March 17th

Mon- Movie Summaries 

Tues- Notes 

  • Never was so much owed by so many to so few
    • talking about the Royal Air Force 
  • Herman Goering 
    • Hitler's successor after he committed suicide
  • German Invasion of USSR- June, 1941   
    • Final Plan for Operation Barbarossa 
      • Germany is doing good at first but then Winter hit and then was bad
    • Scorched Earth Policy 
      • Stalin wanted all of them to retreat 
      • Burns everything on their way out 
    • Battle for Moscow 
      • Germany was getting closer to Moscow 
      • Winter set in 
      • 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 

Wed-

  • Siege of Leningrad 
    • August 30th, 1941
      • Germans took over Leningrad's railroad 
        • Cutting them off from the rest of the world and starts starving them
          • Resorting to eating wallpaper paste and cannibalism
      • The Battle at Stalingrad freed to people
  • North Africa
    • Where we started fighting
    • Operation Torch
      • November 1942
      • US and British invasion of North Africa against Germany and France
      • By May of 1943, Axis forces surrendered in North Africa
      • The Campaign would now now shift to the islands in the Mediterranean Sea and Italy  
    • Captured Sicily and used as the base
    • Took Italy
  • D-day 
    • Omaha Beach
      • One of the Hardest
        • Obstacles in the way making it harder to get to the shore  
  • Battle of the Bulge 
    • Hitler's Last Offensive
    • Worst For US casualties
  • US and Russian soldiers Meet at the Elbe River (in Germany)
    • April 25th, 1945
  • Hitler Commits Suicide
    • With wife of 40 hours
    • People loyal to him, kill themselves and their family
  • Nazi Propaganda
    • Uses the children to lighten his image
  • Holocaust  
    • Mass Genocide in Nazi Territories 
      • 6 million European Jews during WWII
      • A program of systematic State sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany Throughout the Nazi-occupied territory 
      • 2/3 of the population of the 9 million European Jews died
      • Nazi's killed other millions of other ethnic groups other than just the Jews
      • This would make the end type of them dead is 11-17 million
    • Genocide means
      • Anything thing committed against people with intent to destroy a national, ethical, racial or religious groups such as:
        • Killing them 
        • Causing mental or physical harm 
        • Deliberately inflicting terrible group living conditions 
        • Imposing measures intended to prevent births within group 
        • Forcibly transferring children to a different group then their own 
        • Member Countries must "undertake to prevent and punish."
    • What is the Aryan Race?
      • Nazi use term to refer to a so-called master race that originated around German 
      • Perfect Aryan 
        • Blonde Hair, Blue Eye
    • Who was inferior according to Hitler?
      • Jews (6 million dead)
      • Gypsies (500,000 to 1.5 million) 
      • Mentally/Physically handicapped (75,000-250,000) 
      • Soviet Slavs (16.5 million)
      • Poles (2.5 million) 
      • Homosexuals (5-15 thousand) 
      • Communists (many)
      • Darker skinned (death or forced sterilizations 
      • Mixed races 
      • Jehovah's Witnesses (2,500 - 5,000)
    • Lebensborn - Fount of Life
      • Farms where  women (preferably blonde hair blue eyed) voluntary hooked up with a stranger (blonde hair blue eyed) strong men to pump out babies to continue the "perfect" Aryan Race
    • Hitler's Jewish Question - 1933 
      • temporary suspended civil liberties for all citizens n 1933- Never Restored 
      • Nazi set up concentration camps for the communists 
      • Prohibited Jews from working civil jobs 

Fri- 

  • Holocaust 
    • Nuremburg Laws 
      • Who are the Jews? 
        • Had three or more grandparents then was considered Jewish 
          • Changed to 1 Jewish Relative 
      • Jews Could only marries and really associate with other Jews 
      • Prohibited Jews from working any German civil jobs
    • The Night if the Broken Glass 
      • On November 9th and 10th, 1938 Nazis roamed through Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows of Jewish bussinesses also burning buildingd 
      • Jewish People would need to end up wearing the Star of David 
      • 91 people dead 
      • All Jewish children are expelled in Austria and Germany 
      • Nazis Take control whats left of Jewish Businesses 
    • Hitler's Final Solution 
      • Hitler orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically disabled in Germany and Austria 
      • Jews are required to wear the Yellow Stars of David 
      • 1940 
        • Nazisd begin Deporting Jews to Poland 
        • Jews forced to Ghettos 
      • 1941 
        • Jews thoughout Europe are forced into more ghettos 
        • In two days German units shoot 33,771 Ukrainian Jews 
          • They're using too many bullets 
            • Want to find more efficient ways to kill the Jews 
      • 1942 
        • The Germans decide they are going to round up all the Jew in Europe and kill them 
          • Auschwitz- The Largest Concentration 
      • 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 it down 
      • 1945 
        • Hitler is defeated and WWII ends in Europe 
        • The Holocaust is over and the death camps are found emptied 
        • Many survivors are placed in displaced persons camps until they find a country that was willing to accept them 
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