Monday - Mr. Bruns went over his powerpoints. The test might be Thursday/Friday.
Tuesday - We listened to a couple of speeches and Mr. Bruns went over his powerpoint some more. We have an extra credit opportunity tomorrow to read Churchill's fight speech.
Wednesday - Mr. Bruns continued his presentations.
Holocaust
- Genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War 2
- A program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany throughout Nazi-occupied territory
- Approximately 2/3 of the population of nine million Jews who had lived in Europe before the Holocaust died
- some say that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis killing of millions of people in other groups from Germany and other occupied territory
- By this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million - 17 million people
- Hitlers Hit List
- Jews: 6 million
- Gypsies: 500 thousand - 1.5 million
- Mentally/Physically Handicapped: 17-250 thousands
- Soviet Slavs/POW's/Troops: 16.5 million
- Poles: 2.5 million
- Homosexuals: 5-15 thousand
- Communist/Socialist: many (number not confirmed)
- Dark Skinned: many/forced serilization (number not confirmed)
- Mixed Races
- Jehovah's Witnesses: 2,500-5,000
- Aryan RaceLensborn-Fount of Life
- Nazis used term to refer to a so-called master race that originated around Germany
- Perfect Aryan
- Blonde
- Blue-eyed
- Tall
- Muscular
- The original term refers to a people speaking Indo-European dialect
- Program aimed to promote the growth of "superior" Aryan populations
- Breeding program
- Houses were set up throughout Germany and many occupied territories
- Holocaust
- 1933
- Nazis "temporarily" suspend civil liberties for all citizens
- Never restored
- The Nazis set up the first concentration camp at Dachau
- First inmates are 200 Communists
- Jews prohibited from working
- Civil servants
- Doctors
- Teachers
- Nazis "temporarily" suspend civil liberties for all citizens
- 1935
- German citizenship was denied to Jews
- Jews became second class citizens
- 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 mixed race
- Jews could only marry Jews
- No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews
- German citizenship was denied to Jews
- 1936
- Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses
- 1938 (November 9 & 10: Night of the Broken Glass)
- Nazis broke windows and looted Jewish homes and businesses
- Burned Synagogues
- 101 Synagogues destroyed
- 7500 businesses destroyed
- 26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps
- Jews were physically attacked and beaten
- 91 Jews died in the attack
- 1938 Continued
- All Jewish children are expelled from public schools in Germany & Austria
- Nazis take control of Jewish-owned businesses
- Hitler's Final Solution
- Genocide
- Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethical, racial or religious group
- Killing members of the group
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
- Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethical, racial or religious group
- Genocide
- 1939
- Hitler orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically disabled 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 Easter 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
- Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Ghettos of Eastern Europe are being emptied as thousands of Jews are shipped to death camps
- The United States, Great Britain, and 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 deportations. These Jews hold out for nearly a month before the Nazis put down the uprising
- 1944
- Hitler takes over Hungary and begins deporting 12,000 Hungarian Jews each day to Auschwitz where they are murdered
- 1945
- Hitler is defeated and World War 2 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 willing to accept them
- 1947
- The United Nations establishes a Jewish homeland in British controlled Palestine, which becomes the State of Israel in 1948
- 1933
Thursday - Mr. Bruns continued his powerpoints. I continued my notes on facts not covered in the class powerpoints. Notes are above.
Friday - Mr. Bruns continued his powerpoints. I continued my notes on the facts not covered in the class powerpoints. Notes are above.
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