MONDAY- no school
TUESDAY-
Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders for D-Day "Operation Overload" June 6, 1944 (mis information)
-Invade France (German under control)
The Liberation of Paris : August 25, 1944 (De Gaulle in Triumph)
Assassination Plot -July 20, 1944 Major Claus von Stauffenberg -tried to kill Hitler
The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Offensive (Dec 16,1944 - Jan 28, 1945)
-Hitler wanted to push US to the sea but pushed up back
-US lost a lot of men
-Unsuccessful
US & Russian Soldiers Meet at the Elbe River (in Germany) April 25, 1945
Hitler Commits Suicide
-The Fuhrer's Bunker
-Cyanide & Pistols
-Mr. & Mrs. Hitler
V-E Day (May 8, 1945 end of Italy & Germany)
know VE Day, Pearl Harbor, D-Day
The Holocaust
-The Genocide of approximately six million European Jews During World War II
-A program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany throughout Nazi-occupied territory
-Approximatley two-thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had lived in Europe before the Holocaust died
-Some say that the definition 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 definition, the total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million & 17 million people
Genocide- means killing members of the group, causing bodilly or harm to members of the group, transferring childrem of the group to another group, prevent births
What is the Aryan Race?
-Nazis used term to refer to a so-called master race that orginated around Germany
-Perfect Aryan was blonde, blue eyed, tall and muscular
-The original term refers to a people speaking a IndoEuropean dialect
Who was Inferior According to Hitler?
1. Jews (6 million dead)
2. Gypsies (500,000-1.5 million) -theories they steal
3. Mentally/Physically handicapped people (75,000-250,000) -Only want the strong, don't want them to reproduce
4. Soviet Slavs/POWS/Troops - (16.5 million) -Russians
5. Poles (2.5 million)
6. Homosexuals (5-15,000)
7. Communist/Socialist (many but not confirmed)
8. Dark skinned people (death and forced sterilization)
9. Mixed races
10. Jehovah's Witnesses
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 born to unwed mothers to led to many rumors of rape
-Contrary to rumors, women were not forced to have relations with Aryan Germans
Hitler's Jewish Question- 1933
What are we going to do with the Jews?
What are smaller things that Hitler did to the Jews beside Genocide?
-Nazi's "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 sevants, doctors in the National Health Service, and teachers in public high schools
*-Most Jewish students are banned from pubic high schools and colleges
Hitler's Final Solution - Genocide
Nuremburg Laws -1935
1. Took away German citizens from Jews thus making Jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights
2. Defined 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 Germany)
3. Jews could only marry Jews
4. No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews
1936
-Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses (don't buy from Jewish businesses, we want them to fail)
Kristallnacht -1938 "Night of the Broken Glass"
-On the nigh tof November 9 and 10, 1938, 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 7,5000 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
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 in Poland
1941
-Jews throughout Eastern Eurpope are forced into ghettos
-In two days, German units shoot 33,771 Ukrainian Jews at BabiYar - the largest single massavre of the Holocaust
-The death camps at Chelmno in Poland begins murdering Jews
Auschwitz - most famous concentration camp
1942
-Nazi officials announce "Final Solution' - their plan to kill all European Jews
-Five death camps begin operation in Poland: Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau
-The US, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union acknowledge that Germans are exterminating the Jews of Europe
-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 World War II ends in Europe
-The Holocaust is over and the death camps are emptied
What happened to the ews that survived?
-Many survivors are placed in displaced persons camps until they find a country willing to accept them
Displaced Person Camps
Some 850,000 people lived in Displaced Person Camps across Europe
-Armenians, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Yugoslavs, Jews, Greeks, Russians, Ukranian and Czech
1947
-The United Natiosn establishes a Jewish homeland in British controlled Palestine, which becomes the State of Israel in 1948
Israel -Promise land for the Jews
THURSDAY- video
FRIDAY- video
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