Monday - No School
Tuesday - D-Day - (June 6, 1944) "Operation Overlord" America invades France. Germany is in control of France
The Liberation of Paris: August 25th, 1944
July 20, 1944 - Assassination Plot
The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Offensive (Dec. 16, 1944 - Jan. 28, 1945)
US & Russian Soldiers Meet at the Elbe River(in Germany): April 25, 1945
Hitler Commits Suicide on April 30, 1945
V-E Day Victory in Europe (May 8, 1945)
The Holocaust
- The genocide of approximately 6 million European Jews during WWll
- A program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany throughout Nazi-occupied territory
- Approximately 2/3 of the population of 9 million Jews who had lived in Europe before the Holocaust died
- Some say that the defination of the Holocaust should also include the Nazi's killing of millions of people in other groups from Germany and other occupied territory
- By this defination, The total number of Holocaust victims would be betweeen 11 million and 17 million people
What is the Aryan Race?
- Nazis used term to refer to a so-called master race that originated around Germany
- Perfect Aryan was blonde, blue-eyed, tall and muscular
- The original term refers to a people speaking Indo-European dialect
Who was Inferior According to Hitler?
- Jews (6 million dead)
- Gypsies (500,000 to 1.5 million)
- Metally/physically handicapped people (75,000 to 250,000)
- Soviet Slavs/POW's/Troops (16.5 million)
- Poles (2.5 million dead)
- Homosexuals (5-15 thousand)
- Communists/ Socialists
- Dark skinned people
- Mixed races
- Jehovah's Witnesses (2,500-5,000)
Wednesday - Lebensborn-Fount of Life
- Program aimed to promote the growth of "superior" Aryan populations by providing excellent health care and living conditions to women who were of the Aryan race
- Houses were set up throughout Germany and many occupied territories
- Many Lebensborn children were bron to unwed mothers led to rumors of rape
- Rumors, women were not forced to have relations with Aryan Germans
Hitler's Jewish Question
- What are we going to do with the Jews?
- Nazis "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 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
Nuremburg Laws-1935
- Took away German citizenship from the Jews thus making Jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights
- Defined the Jewish race as being anyone who either considered themselves Jewish or had three or four Jewish grandparents - People with 1 or 2 Jewish grandparents were considered to be mixed race - Eventually anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent was at risk in 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"
- The Nazis roamed Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows, burning synagogues and looting
- 101 synagogues were destroyed and 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed
- 26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps
- Jews were attacked and beaten and 91 died in the attack
1938-Cont.
- 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 yellow stars
1940
- Nazis begin deporting German Jews to Poland
- Jews are forced into ghettos
- Nazis begin the first mass murder of Jews to Poland
1941
- Jews throughout Eastern Europe are forced into ghettos
- In 2 days, German units shoot 33,771 Ukrainian Jews at BabiYar- the largest single massacre of the Holocaust
- The death camp at Chelmno in Poland begins murdering Jews
1942
- Nazi officials annouch "Final Solution" -their plan to kill all European Jews
- 5 death camps begin operation in Poland: Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Ghettos of Eastern Europe are being emptied as thousands of Jews are shipped to death camps
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 Nazis put down the uprising
1945
- Hitler is defeated and WWll ends in Europe
- The Holocaust is over and the death camps are emptied
- What happened to the Jews that survived?
- Many survivors are placed in displaced persons camps until they find a country willing to accept them
Some 850,000 people lived in Displaced Person camps across Europe
Armenians, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Yugoslavs, Jews, Greeks, Russians, Ukrainians and Czechoslovaks
1947
- The United Nations establishes a Jewish homeland in British-controlled Palestine, which becomes the State of Israel in 1948
Hitler's Final Solution
- Genocide
Thursday - No Notes
Friday - No Notes
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