THE HOLOCAUST AND OTHER ATROCITIES OF THE WAR

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THE HOLOCAUST AND OTHER ATROCITIES OF THE WAR

• CHAPTER 25 SECTION 3

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HIMMLER
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JEWS SCRUBBING PAVEMENT
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DUG THEIR OWN GRAVES
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EXECUTION AFTER DIGGING GRAVE
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WOMEN EXECUTED
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MOVING INTO KRAKOW GHETTO
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BUILDING WALL TO CLOSE IN KRAKOW
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CLOSING IN OUTSIDE WINDOWS
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REGISTERING IN KRAKOW
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FATHER AND SON
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CENTER OF KRAKOW
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SS OFFICER CHECKING IDS
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DIGGING DITCHES IN KRAKOW
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KRAKOW RESIDENTS LINED UP AGAINST WALL
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BEING DEPORTED OUT OF KRAKOW TO CONCENTRATION
CAMPS
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Jews in Auschwitz doing labor
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WHEN AUSCHWITZ WAS LIBERATED
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WHEN AUSCHWITZ WAS LIBERATED
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WHEN BELSEN WAS LIBERATED
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BODIES FOUND IN RAIL CARS USED BY GERMANS
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ENTRANCE TO AUSCHWITZ
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ENTRANCE TO BIRKENAU
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BUCHENWALD
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AN EXECUTION _at_ BUCHENWALD
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REGISTRATION _at_ BUCHENWALD
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ROLL CALL _at_ BUCHENWALD
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WHEN BUCHENWALD WAS LIBERATED
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WHEN BUCHENWALD WAS LIBERATED
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CREMATORIES _at_ BUCHENWALD
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BURNING BODIES BEFORE LIBERATION
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BODIES AND CLOTHES
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FURNACES FOR CREMATION
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BAGS OF HAIR
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DACHAU
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KREMATORIUM
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KREMATORIUM
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KREMATORIUMS
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LIBERATION _at_ DACHAU
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LIBERATION
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WOMENS LABOR CAMP
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CREMATION
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WARSAW
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WEDDING RINGS
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EXECUTIONS _at_ WARSAW
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HITLERS RACIAL IMPERIALISM - GOALS

• PRIMARY GOAL WAS TO CONQUER LIVING SPACE IN
  EASTERN EUROPE SOVIET UNION COLONIZE IT W/
  GERMANS
• ANTICIPATED DESTRUCTION OF ENSLAVEMENT OF THE
  SLAVIC POPULATION OF EASTERN EUROPE _at_ RUSSIA

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THE HOLOCAUST

• HITLER PLANNED TO ELIMINATE JEWS FROM EUROPE IN
  THE FINAL SOLUTION IN ORDER TO ENSURE THE
  PURITY OF THE NEW GERMAN EMPIRE
• THROUGHOUT 1930S PERSECUTED JEWS
• DURING WAR EXTENDED TO JEWS LIVING IN COUNTRIES
  OCCUPIED BY GERMANY

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THE HOLOCAUST

• 1941 PLANNED TO CARRY OUT THEIR FINAL
  DESTRUCTION
• ACT OF GENOCIDE CALLED THE HOLOCAUST
• HEINRICH HIMMLER MAN LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR
  CARRYING OUT HITLERS VISION OF RACIAL
  EXTERMINATION HEAD OF THE SCHUTZSTAFFEL (SS)

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THE HOLOCAUST

• SS MILITARY ARM OF THE NAZI PARTY
• INITIALLY SS ROUNDED UP JEWS AND SHOT THEM
• SOON DEVELOPED A MORE EFFICIENT METHOD USE OF
  POISON GAS

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THE HOLOCAUST

• JAN 1942 SR. NAZI OFFICIALS MET IN WANNSEE _at_
  THE WANNSEE CONFERENCE IN ORDER TO FINALIZE THEIR
  PLANS FOR THE EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS
• FOR 3 YEARS THE SS TRANSPORTED ALL THE EUROPEAN
  JEWS THEY COULD FIND TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS

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DEATH CAMPS

• ARRIVED BY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
• SS SORTED THEM BY AGE, HEALTH, SEX TEARING
  APART FAMILIES FROM THE BEGINNING
• SOME WERE SELECTED FOR IMMEDIATE EXECUTION
  TOOK THEM OFF TO GAS CHAMBERS WHERE THEY BELIEVED
  THEY WOULD BE TAKING SHOWERS

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DEATH CAMPS

• ANY CONSIDERED HEALTHY ENOUGH WENT OT WORK IN
  CAMP FACTORIES WHERE THEY ENDURED REGULAR
  BEATINGS AND SLOW STARVATION
• SOME WERE SELECTED FOR CRUEL MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS
  INCLUDING OPERATIONS WITHOUT THE USE OF ANESTHESIA

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DEATH CAMPS

• IF THEY WERE NOT IMMEDIATELY EXECUTED A NUMBER
  WOULD BE TATTOES ON THE ARM TO IDENTIFY THEM
• MOST NOTORIOUS CAMP AUSCHWITZ IN POLAND
• MOST PEOPLE SENT TO THE CAMPS WERE KILLED
• NOT ONLY JEWS ALSO SLAVS, GYPSIES, POLITICAL
  DISSIDENTS HOMOSEXUALS

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DEATH CAMPS

• INITIALLY BURIED IN MASS GRAVES
• EVENTUALLY RESORTED TO HUGE OVENS IN WHICH THEY
  WERE CREMATED
• FORCED CONCENTRATION CAMP PRISONERS TO EXTRACT
  GOLD FILLINGS FROM TEETH OF THE DEAD AND TO
  COLLECT HAIR TO BE USED FOR SUCH THINGS AS
  STUFFING THE SEAT CUSHIONS OF MILITARY VEHICLES
• EXTIMATED 6 MILLION JEWS KILLED

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PEOPLE WHO HELPED

• IN POLAND AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA, OSKAR SCHINDLER
  (GER INDUSTRIALIST UNDER GER CONTRACT) SECRETLY
  SAVED AS MANY JEWS AS HE COULD BY EMPLOYING THEM
  IN HIS FACTORIES
• EVENTUALLY HE WENT BANKRUPT

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OTHER ATROCITIES

• OFTEN EMPLOYED PARTICULARLY BRUTAL MEASURES TO
  PUT DOWN RESISTANCE IN GER OCCUPIED COUNTRIES
  EXECUTE WHOLE VILLAGES OF PEOPLE
• GUILTY OF MISTREATING ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR

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JAPANESE ATROCITIES - NANKING

• VIEWED THOSE WHO SURRENDERED AS DISHONORABLE
• DEC 1937 JAPAN OCCUPIED CHINESE CITY OF NANKING
  FOR 2 WEEKS THEY LOOTED, BURNED STORES AND
  HOMES AND CONDUCTED MASS EXECUTIONS
• MURDERED ABOUT 250,000 PEOPLE IN NANKING

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PRISONERS OF WAR

• BRUTAL TO POWS
• SUBJECTED 78,000 AMERICAN AND FILIPINO PRISONERS
  TO A 65 MILE FORCED MARCH UP THE BATAAN PENINSULA
  IN 1942
• WHILE MARCHING GUARDS BEAT, BAYONETED, SHOT, AND
  BEHEADED MANY PRISONERS

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PRISONERS OF WAR

• KILLED OVER 600 AMERICAN AND 10,000 FILIPINOS
• KNOWN AS THE BATAAN DEATH MARCH
• USED PRISONERS FOR RESEARCH IN CHEMICAL AND
  BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AND FOR CRUEL MEDICAL
  EXPERIMENTS

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SOVIET ATROCITIES DIFFERENT PEOPLE

• WENT AFTER SPECIFIC CLASSES OF POPULATION
  LANDOWNERS, LOCAL OFFICIALS, CLERGY, TEACHERS,
  AND INTELLECTUALS
• URGED PEASANTS TO MURDER LANDLORDS
• NKVD SOVIET EQUIVALENT OF HITLERS SS

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SOVIET ATROCITIES

• SUBJECTED 1000S OF POLES TO TORTURE, IMPRISONMENT
  AND EXECUTION
• BEFORE GIVING IN TO THE GERMANS THE NKVD BEGAN
  SHOOTING IMPRISONED POLES APPROSIMATELY 100,000

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Websites about the Holocaust

• http//www.ushmm.com/
• http//www.ushmm.com/museum/exhibit/online/phistor
  ies/

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Holocaust museum