Tuesday-
Operation Torch-November, 1942
US and British forces invade North Africa
My May Axis forces surrendered in North Africa
The campaign would now shift to the islands in the Mediterranean Sea and Italy
D-Day June 6, 1944
Normandy Landing
Britain, American, Canadian, and France forces attacked German forces and pushed them back into Germany
July 20- Assassination Plot
Someone was in a meeting with Hitler and had a briefcase with a bomb in it.
It didn't kill him
The Battle of the BUlge
HItler's last chance to take to the land and win the war
US and Russian soldiers meet for the first time because both were going from both sides of Germany
Hitler Commits Suicide
He shoots himself
His wise gets Cyanide
V-E Day
May 8th
Germany surrenders; War in Europe ends
Nazi propaganda made hitler look god like or around children to look more humane
Wednesday-
Lebensborn-Front of Life
The program aimed to promote the growth of “superior” Aryan populations by providing excellent health care and living conditions to women and by restricting access to those deemed ‘fit’
Houses were set up throughout Germany and many occupied territories
Many Lebensborn children were born to unwed mothers which helped lead to many rumors of rape
Contrary to widespread rumors, women were not forced to have relations with Aryan Germans
Hitler's Jewish Question
Nazis ‘temporarily’ suspended civil liberties for all citizens in 1033-Never restored
The NAzis set up the first concentration camp at Dachau in 1933. THe first inmates are 200 Communists.
Jews are prohibited from working as civil servants, doctors in the National Health Service, and teachers in public high schools
Most Jewish students are banned from public high schools and colleges.
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 3 or 4 Jewish grandparents. People with one or two Jewish Grandparents were considered 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
Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses
Kristallnacht
“NIght of the Broken Glass”
On the nights of November 9th and 10th, the Nazis roamed through Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows of Jewish businesses and homes. Burning synagogues and looting
In all, 101 synagogues were destroyed and almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed
26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
Jews were physically attacked and beaten and 91 died in the attack
1938
All Jewish children are expelled from public schools in Germany and Austria
Nazis take control of Jewish-owned businesses
Hitler's Final SOlution
Genocide finally started
1939
Hitler orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically disabled in Germany and Austria
Jews are required to wear armbands or yellow stars
1940
Nazis begin deporting German Jews to Poland
Jews are forced into ghettos
Nazis begin the first mass murder
1941
Jews throughout Eastern Europe are forced into ghettos
In 2 days, German units shoot 33,771 Ukrainian Jews at Babi Yar-the largest single massacre of the Holocaust
The death camp at Chelmno in Poland begins murdering Jews
1942
Nazi officials announce ‘Final SOlution’- Their plan to kill all European Jews
1943
Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto resist as the Nazis begin new rounds of deportations. THese Jews hold out for nearly a month before the NAzi put down the uprising.
1944
Hitler takes over Hungary and begins deporting 12,000 HUngarian Jews each day to Auschwitz where they are murdered
1945
Hitler is defeated and WW2 ends in Europe
The Holocaust is over and the death camps are found emptied
Many survivors are placed in displaced persons camps until they find a country willing to accept them
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