Today, Mr. Bruns continued his WWII presentation.
The Holocaust
-six million jews died.
-2/3 of european jews died.
-the total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 and 17 million people.
Killed in the Holocaust
1. Jews
2. Gypsies. (500,000 to 1.5 million)
3. Mentally/Physically handicapped people. (75,000 to 250,000)
4. Soviet Slavs (7.4 million)
5. Polish people (2.5 million)
6. Homosexuals (5-15 thousands)
7. Communists/socialists.
8. Dark skinned people.
9. Africans and Asians.
10. Jehovah's Witnessess- Religious.
Aryan Race- Blond hair and blue eyes- Tall and Muscular.
Lebensborn- Fount of Life- This program aimed to promote the growth of "superior" Aryan populations. Blonde hair and blued eyed women would have "relations" with German Soldiers.
Hitlers Jewish Questions:
1- Suspend Jew's Rights.
2- Concentration Camps.
3- Jews could no longer work in government jobs- doctors, teachers and students were kicked out of school.
Nuremburg Laws-
1. Took away German citizenship rights from Jews thus making Jews second class citizens.
2. Defined Jewish- If you were even 1/4 Jewish, you were considered Jewish.
3. Jews could only marry Jews.
4. No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews.
Kristallnacht- "Night of Broken Glass"
^ Jewish businesses were destroyed and Jews were physically attacked and beaten. -Amed to destroy their churches and businesses. Also, start transporting them to Concentration Camps.
1939- Hitler ordered the systemactic murder of the mentally and physically handicapped. Jews were also required to wear armbands and yellow stars.
1940- Nazis begin deporting German Jews to Poland. -Forced into ghettos. Also, death camps start.
1941- BabiYar- German units shoot 33,771-largest single massacre of the Holocaust. First death camps begin murdering Jews.
1942- Hitler announces his final solution to Hitler's questions: "Kill them all."
Some death camps operated in Poland are: Majdanek, Sobibor, Belzec.
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