Monday-Notes
Siege of Leningrad
On August 30th 1941, the Germans took Leningrad's railroads, cutting them off from the rest of the Russia and the world
Unlike the battle of stalingrad, the Germasn surrounded the city to starve the city into submission
Between November 1941 and October 1942, 641,000 people died of starvation
People resorted to eating rats, wallpaper paste and some resorted to cannibalism
The Germans never took Leningrad, but it was one of the most costly conflicts Russia had ever faced-over one million dead.
The North Africa Campaign
Gen. Bernard Montgomery(Monty)
Gen. Erwin Rommel(The Desert Fox)
Operation-Torch
US and British forces invade North-Africa
Tuseday-Notes
D-Day June 6 1944
V-E Day May 8 1945
The Holocaust
The Genocide of approximately six million european jews during World War II
A program if systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany throughout Nazi-occupied territory
Approximately two-thirds of nine million Jews who had lived in Europe befor the Holocaust died
Some say that definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis killing of million of people in other groups from Germany and other occupied territory
By this definition, the total number off Holocaust victims would be between 11 millions and 17 millions people
What is the Aryan Race
Nazi used terms to refer to a so-called master race that originated around germany
Perfect Aryan was blonde,blue eyed, tall and musclar
Wednesday-NO SCHOOL
Thursday-Notes
Lebensborn-Fount of life
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
Houses were set up throughout Germany and many occuiped territories
Hilter Jewish Questions
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 imates are Communists
Jews are prohibited from working as civil servants, doctors in the Nation Health Services, and teachers in public high schools
Nuremburg Laws-1935
Took away German citizenship from jews thus making Jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights
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 race
Eventually anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent was at risk in Germany
Jews could only marry Jew
No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews
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