Monday - Notes
Soviet - German Non Aggression Pact - where they agreed not to fight each other but also agreed to trade with each other and invade Poland
Russia gave Germany money and weapon
- Germany Invasion of Poland-Blitzkrieg
- Both Germany and Russia invaded from opposite ends
Nazi- Soviet Non Aggression Pact - Russia gave Germany raw materials and more
Blitzkrieg- Lightning War
- Airplanes (Lufwaffe) - You want to take out as many tanks, troops, anti air craft guns, etc. They were going to come in and make it difficult to communicate or to fight back
- Tanks (Panzers)
- Trucks with troops
- Infantry
- Air force attacks enemy front line and rear positions, main roads, airfields, and communication centers. At the same time infantry attacks on the entire front-line and engages enemy.
- Tank units breakthrough main lines of defense and advance deeper into enemy territory. Mechanized units pursue and engage defenders preventing them from establishing defensive positions. Infantry continues to engage enemy for the same reason.
SItxkrieg- The Phony War - they declared war but nothing was going on or happening
Tripartite Pact 1940 - Japan joins
Tuesday - More Notes
Wednesday - Notes
The Holocaust - The genocide of 6 million European Jews during World War II
A program of systematic extermination by Nazi Germany throughout Nazi-occupied territory
Around 2/3 of the population of 9 million Jews who had lived in Europe before the Holocaust died
Some say 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
By this definition. The total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million people
Who 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)
Soviet Slavs/POW’s/Troop (16.5 million)
Poles (2.5 million dead)
Homosexuals (5-15 thousand dead)
Communists/Socialists (Many)
Dark skinned people (Death and forced sterilization)
Mixed Races
Jehovah’s Witnesses (2500-5000)
What is the Aryan Race?
Nazi used term to refer to a so- called master race that originated around Germany
Perfect Aryan was blonde, blue-eyed, tall and muscular
Thursday - Notes
Lebensborn- Fount of Life
The program aimed to promote the growth of “superior” Aryan populations by providing excellent health care
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 civil servants, doctors in the National Health Service, and teachers in public high schools.
Jews were banned from colleges
Kristallnacht - 1938
"Night of the Broken Glass"
- 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.
- In all, 101 synagogues were destroyed and almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed
- 26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps
- Jews were physically attacked and beaten and 91 died in the attack
1938-Cont.
- All Jewish children are expelled from public schools in Germany and Austria.
- Nazis take control of Jewish-owned businesses
What is Genocide?
- Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group such as:
- (a) Killing Members of the group
- (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
- (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
- (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
- (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
- Member Countries must "undertake to prevent and punish."
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 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
- 5 death camps begin operation in Poland: Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Ghettos of Eastern Europe are being emptied as thousands of Jews are shipped to death camps
1943
- Jews in 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,
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