Only a fool learns from his own mistakes' I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others' Otto Von Bi

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Dark Shadows of the Past
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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes
I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others
-Otto Von Bismarck
First Chancellor of the Second German Reich
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Adolf Hitler made a big mistake. He blamed his
problems and all the problems of Germany on the
Jewish nation.
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Gradually I began to hate them. For me this was
the time of the greatest spiritual upheaval I
have ever had to go through. I had ceased to be
a weak-kneed cosmopolitan and become an
anti-Semite.
-Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf 1933
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Hitler united the Germans and made them feel
powerful. He gave them a common enemy the
Jewish people.
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Hitler became Chancellor of Germany on January
30, 1933. The Third Reich boasted Hitler, would
endure a thousand years.
It lasted twelve years and four months
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In March 1938 his army invaded Austria, Hitlers
birthplace.
The German army then marched into neighboring
countries and took over their governments.
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The German armies then put the Jews in fenced in
Ghettos.
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They were then packed into trains that took them
away.
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The trains stopped at the concentration camps
where the Jews were forced into labor.
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Work Makes One Free read the sign on this camp.
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The prisoners who survived the labor were starved
and mistreated.
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Children were held prisoners in the camps too.
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But Hitlers real plan was to kill all the Jews.
Here is a room marked Showers which was really
a killing gas chamber.
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After death, the Jews bodies were burned in
ovens so to not leave a trace of the crimes.
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Some Jews tried to escape. Here the ship St.
Louis is turned away in Cuba in 1939. They were
forced back to Europe and death.
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The war with Germany ended in 1945. This is what
the American soldiers found when they entered
the camps.
Nearly 6 Million Jews were killed in the
Holocaust.
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The Genocide became well known and the Germans
who organized the killing were put on trial in
Nuremburg.
All over the world people said, Never Forget.
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Never is a long time.
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Today the news uses Ethnic Cleansing instead of
Genocide but the results are the same
1971 - Bangladesh (over 1 Million killed)
1975 - Khmer Rouge Cambodia (over 1.5 Million
killed)
1986 - Kurdish Conflict (over 50,000 killed)
1991 - Kosovo Serbia (over 10,000 killed)
1993 Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict (over 30,000
killed)
1994 - Rwandan Genocide (over 1 Million killed)
2003 - Darfur Conflict (over 400,000 killed)
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Only a Fool learns from his own mistakes
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Dark Shadows of the Past by Emma
Haney Grade 6
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RESOURCES
All photographs used in the presentation United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Website http//www.ushmm.org/research/collections/
search/ph_catalog.phpsearch
Music used in the presentation Bartok, Bela,
Music for Strings, Percussion Celesta Fritz
Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 1959.
Shrier, William L., The Rise and Fall of the
Third Reich Simon Schuster, New York, NY, 1959,
1990.
Ruggiero, Adriane, American Voices from World War
II Marshall Cavendish, Tarrytown, NY, 2003.
Panchyk, Richard, World War II for Kids Chicago
Review Press, Chicago, IL, 2002.
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