Assigned Blog #5 - WWII video
Quiz Wednesday: Hitlers book to where we end up tomorrow! STUDY!
The Holocaust:
- genocide; six million european jews during WWII (DIED)
- 2/3 jews were killed
- 11-17 million people
- 6 million jews killed
- 500,000 to 1.5 million gypsies killed
- 75,000 to 250,000 - mentally/physically handicapped people killed
- 16.5 million - soviet slavs/POWs/Troops killed
- 2.5 million poles dead
- 5-15 thousand -homosexuals dead
- jehovahs witness (2,500-5,000)
- Aryan Race
- master race that orginated around germany (misused by the nazi)
- perfect= blonde, blue-eyed, tall and muscular
- Lebensborn-Foundt
- aimed to promote the growth of "superior" Aryan populations by providing excellent health care and living conditions to women
- Nuremburg Laws 1935
- basic civil rights were takin away
- jews could only marry jews
- 1936
- nazi boyish jews owned businesses
- Kristallnacht 1939
- Night of the Broken Glass
- aimed to take away their living or their livelyhood
- synagogues were destroyed
- 1938
- all jewish children- expelled from public schools in germany
- nazis take control of jewish-owned businesses.
- 1939
- hitler orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically disabled
- jews are required to wear the yellow star (star of david)
- 1940
- nazis- deporting german jews to poland
- jews- forced into ghettos
- first mass murder of jews in poland
- 1941
- largest single massacre accured - babiyar
- first death camp at chelmno in poland
- 1942
- hitler announces his final solution
- kill all european jews
- 5 death camps accur - Aushwitz, Belzec, Sobibor
- ghettos are being emptied- thousands of jews are shipped to death camps
- 1943
- jews resist as new rounds of deportations then they hold out for nearly a month before the nazis put down the uprising
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