Extra Credit opportunity- change your avatar to something WW2-related. If you use something bruns doesnt recognize, thats +3 to the 5 you got for the initial change. so 8 possible points, due tomorrow, totally optional. pick something fringe.
groups of 3 or 4 for group test next week.
continuing with the uber powerpoint. propoganda.
joeseph goebbels was in charge of german propoganda. full-on hitler supporter.
The Holocaust - the genocide of approximately 6 million European Jews during WW2
A program of systematic state-sponsered ectermination by Nazi Germany throughout Nazi-occupied territory
approximately 2/3 of the population of 9 million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust died. Some maintain that the definition of the Holocuast 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.
Who did hitler consider inferior?
- Jews (6 million)
- Gypsies
- mentally/physically handicapped people
- Slavic people
- Poles (2.5million dead)
- Homosexuals (5-15 thousand)
- communists/socialists
- dark skinned people
- mixed races
- Jehovah's Witnesses
What is Aryan? term misused by the Nazis to mean a so-called master race that originated around Germany.
Aryans are actually a people group that originated from eurasia, kinda indian, from india. so this was another hijacked thing, stolen by hitler. Hitler considered the perfect aryan to be blonde with blue eyes, tall and strong, etc.
Lebensborn (living space)-Fount of Life
the program aimed to promote the growth of "superior" aryan populations by providing excellent health care and living condiions to women and by restricting access to those deemed "unfit". Houses were set up throughout Germany and many occupied territories.
Many Lebensborn children were born to unwed mothers which helped lead ro many rumors of rape. Contrary to widespread rumors, women were not forced to have relations with Nazi Germans. Although its true that some were probably forced. After the war, the women and their children were not very well liked, seen as traitors, so many said they were raped. at the time, though, they had thought doing such things would be safe- women who participated got taken care of, were well-off, stayed safe.
Drat. we're done.
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