Quiz on Wednesday. Assigned blog is to watch another WW2 movie. Cycle starts over now
Mein Kampf
-his struggles
-Hitler's book
-talks about the arians that are superior
-talks about the hatred of the jews
-talks about how democracy is weak.
-Lebensraum: Area in Russia where the Arians are going to flourish and come to power.
Germany Great depression
-This allows Hitler and the Nazi's to flourish and people like him
-Hitler burns down the Rightsag
-He eliminated the Weimar Republic
-He was known as the Fuhrer
Holocaust
- The genocide of approximately six million European Jews during WW2
- A program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany throughout Nazi-occupied territory
-Genocide:Mass killing of a certain group of people in a systematic way.
-approximately two-thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had lived in Europe before the Holocaust.
-Some maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' genocide 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.
-6 million Jews were killed
-500,000 to 1.5 million Gypsies were killed
- 75,000 to 250,000 Mentally/Physically handicapped people were killed
-16.5 million Soviet Slavs/POW's/Troops were killed.
-2.5 million Poles were killed
-5 to 15 thousand Homosexuals were killed
-Many but numbers not confirmed communists/socialists were killed
-Death and forced sterilization dark skinned people were killed
- Mixed races-" The mulatto children came about through rape or the white mother was a whore," Adolf Hitler
-2,500 to 5,000 Jehovah's witnesses were killed.
Aryan Race
- Master race that originated around Germany
- Perfect Aryan was blonde hair, blue-eyed, tall, and muscular.
-term original term refers to a people speaking a indo-European dialect
Lebensborn
- Hitler believed that the Aryans needed to flourish and so he rounded up Aryan men and women and gave them healthcare, homes, and others so they can reproduce. They were treated really good, but some felt like it was rape but most women volunteered.
Hitlers Jewish Question 1933
- What are we going to do with the Jews?
-Hitler would start off by segregating the Jews. They "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 communist.
-Hitler started off be eliminating small things
Nuremberg Laws 1935
- Took away German citizenship from Jews thus making Jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights.
- Established membership in 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 Nazi Germany.
-Jews could only marry Jews
-No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews
1936
-Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses
Kristallnacht-1938 "Night of the broken Glass"
- night when Germans destroyed the Jewish properties
1938
- All Jewish children are expelled from Public schools in Germany and Austria.
-Nazis take control of Jewish-owned businesses.
1939
-Hitler orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically disabled in Germany and Austria.
-Jews are required to wear armbands or the star of David.
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 P0land Begins Murdering Jews
1942
-Nazi officials announce "Final solution"-their plan to kill all European Jews
-Five death camps began operation in Poland: Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblink, Belzec, and Aushwitz-Birkenau
-Ghettos of eastern Europe are being emptied as thousands of Jews are shipped to death camps.
-Thee United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union acknowledge that German are exterminating the Jews of Europe.
1943
-Jews in the 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.
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