Monday- Bruns quizzed 1 of the 6 groups then continued with his powerpoint
Siege of Leningrad
- On August 30th 1941, the Germans took over Leningrad's railroads, cutting them off from the rest of Russia and the world.
- Unlike the Battle of Stalingrad, the Germans 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
- A successful Russian counter-offensive at Stalingrad forced the Germans to move troops there and eventually, the siege failed
- The Germans never took Leningrad, but it was one of the most costly conflicts Russia had ever faced-over one million died
The North Africa Campaign:
June, 1940-May, 1943
- Gen. Bernard Montgomery (“Monty”)
- Gen. Erwin Rommel, The “Desert Fox”
Operation Torch-November, 1942
- By May, 1943, Axis forces surrendered in North Africa
- The campaign would now shift to the islands in the Mediterranean Sea and Italy
The Atlantic Wall
(Belgian Gates, Teller Mines, Ramps, Hedghogs, etc.)
Tuesday - Another Quiz and Bruns Continued with his PowerPoint
D-Day (June 6, 1944)
Normady Landing (June 6, 1944)
July 20, 1944(Assassination Plot) (Major Claus von Stauffenberg) (Hitler First)
The Liberation of Paris (August 25, 1944)
The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Offensive ( Dec. 16, 1944 - Jan. 28, 1945)
US & Russian Solders Meet at the Elbe River (In Germany) (April 25, 1945)
HItler Commits Suicide (April 30, 1945) (The Fuhrer's Bunker) (Cyanide and Pistols) (Mr. & Mrs. Hitler)
V-E Day (May 8, 1945)
The Holocaust
- The genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II
- A program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany throughout Nazi-occupied territory
- Approximately two-thirds 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 and 17 million people
What is Genocide? (1948-United Nations)
Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(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.
Wednesday - NO SCHOOL
Thursday - Another Quiz and Bruns continued with his PowerPoint
What is the Aryan Race?
- Nazis used term to refer to a so-called master race that originated around Germany
- Perfect Aryan was blonde, blue-eyed, tall and muscular
- The original term refers to a people speaking a Indo-European dialect
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/Troops-(16.5 million) Poles(2.5 million dead)
- Homosexuals(5-15 thousand dead)
- Communists/socialists(many but number not confirmed)
- Dark skinned people(death and forced sterilization)
- Mixed races-"The mulatto children came about through rape or the white mother was a whore," Adolf Hitler
- Jehovah’s Witnesses(2,500-5,000)
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 occupied territories
- Many Lebensborn children were born to unwed mothers led to many rumors of rape
- Contrary to rumors, women were not forced to have relations with Aryan Germans
Hitler’s Jewish Question
- What are we going to do with the Jews?
Hitler’s Final Solution
- Genocide
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
- Most Jewish students are banned from public high schools and colleges
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