WW2 quiz this Wed.
Assigned blog #5 : WW2 Movie
Holocaust:
Who was killed in the Holocaust?
-6 million Jews
-Gypsies (500,00-1.5 Mill)
-Mentally/physically handicapped people (75,000-250,000)
-Soviets Slavs/POW's/Troops(16.5 Mill)
-Poles :polish people: (2.5 Mill)
-Homos(5-15 thousand)
-Comminists/Socialists (many)
-Dark Skinned (death and sterilization)
-Mixed races
-Joehovas Witnesses 2,500-5,000 What is the "Aryan Race"- Misused by the Nazis to mean master race (blue eyed, blonde hair, tall & muscular)- Germany, Norway, Luxinberg, Denmark, Belgum, Netherlands, Great Britan Lebensborn- Fount of Life-Program aimed to promote the growth of "superior" aryan populations by providing excellent health care and living conditions to women (fit, beutiful, aryan) Hitlers Jewish Question 1933- Nazis "temporarily" suspend civil liberties for all citizens in 1933- never restored-!st concentration camp was set up in 1933 at Dachau-Jews were prohibited from working as civil servants, doctors in the National health service, and teachers in the public high schools. All but few jewish students are banned from bublic high schools and colleges Nuremburg Laws 1935-Took away german citizenship from jews thus making jews 2nd class citizens by removing there basic civil rights-Established membership by the number of jewish grandparents-Jews could only marry jews-No sexual relation between non jewish germans and jews 1936-Nazis boycott jewish-owned buisnesses Kristallnacht-1938-Nov 9.10 1938 gangs and nazi youth roamed through hewish neighborhoods breaking windows and other glass-101 synagogues were destroyed almost 7,500 jewish busnesses were destroyed. 26,000 jews were arrested and taken to concentration camps-91 died 1928 cont-All jewish children are expelled from public schools in germany & austia-Nazis take control of jewish oened buisnesses 1939-Hitlers (final solution) orders the systematic murders of the mentally disabled in Germany and Austria-Jews are required to wear armbands or stars 1940-Nazis start deporting german jews to poland-Jews are forced to ghettos-Nazis begin the first mass murder of jews in poland 1941-Jews throughout eastern europe are forced into ghettos-Death camp Chelmno in poland starts killing jews 1942-Final solution to kill them all!-Auschwits- Birkenau, Belzec, Sobibor are some camps that enforced the final solution 1943-Jews in Warsaw Ghetto resist as the Nazis begin new rounds of deportation these jews hold out for nearly a month before the nazis put down the uprising 1944-Hitler takes over Hungary and begins deoprting 12,000 Hungarian Jews each day to auschwitz 1945-Hitler is defeated and WW2 ends in Europe-Holocaust is over and the death camps are emptied-Many survivors are placed in displaced camps until they find a country willing to accept them 1947-United Nations estblishes a jewiosh homeland in british - controlled palestine which becomes the state of Israel
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