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The HolocaustThe Holocaust

Anti-Semitism in Europe

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Reparations

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German Anti-Semitism

German Anti-Semitism: Humiliation

DefinitionDefinition CharacteristicsCharacteristics

ExamplesExamples

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GenocideGenocide

Government sponsored destruction of an ethnic, political, or cultural group

•Organized/systematic•Large number of deaths

Armenian Genocide Holocaust

Khmer Rouge

Rwanda

Darfur

The Jewish Question

How did the Nazi’s ‘Answer’ the Jewish

Question?

Phases of the HolocaustPhases of the Holocaust

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Removal of Jews from German Society

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The Nuremberg Laws

• September 1935• Economic, social & political

persecution of Jewish life– Boycotts– Law for the Protection of

German Blood & Honor– Reich Citizenship Law

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Ghettoization of Europe’s Jews Forced Jewish labor (1939-1942)

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Ghettoization• 1939-1942• Jews rounded up,

isolated in ghettos• Conditions?

– Crowded • 10-20 per room

– Starvation• 200 calories per

person, per day

– Disease

• Slave labor



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You may not liveAttempt to eliminate Europe’s Jews•Einsatzgruppen (1941 – 1942) •Final Solution (1942 – 1945)

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Einsatzgruppen

• Action Squads• Followed German army

into the East• Rounded up:

– Communists– Political rivals– Slavs– Gypsies– Jews

• Killed 1.4 million

The Final Solution

• Wannsee Conference– Berlin, Jan 20, 1942– Attended by highest ranking Nazi officials– Here that the “final solution to the Jewish

question” was decided

– “Final solution” = Elimination of Europe's 11 million Jews

The Final Solution

Deportation

Atomic Bomb

V-E DayV-E Day

• April 1945 Russia/U.S. Troops meet in April 1945 Russia/U.S. Troops meet in eastern Germanyeastern Germany

• Hitler commits suicideHitler commits suicide

• Germany surrenders Germany surrenders unconditionallyunconditionally

• May 8th 1945: Victory in May 8th 1945: Victory in Europe Day Europe Day

V-E Day: LondonV-E Day: London

V-E Day: NYCV-E Day: NYC

Should the U.S. have used atomic weapons on Japan?

Reasons For Reasons Against

• Killed civilians—women and children

• Japan would have surrendered by Nov 1945– Seeking peace

• Unfair to use Japan as bargaining chip w/ USSR

• Forever change nature of warfare

• Why 2?

• To end the war quickly• To avoid invasion of Japan

—save American lives• Justifying $2 billion spent on

the Manhattan project• Racism• To intimidate the soviet

union

The Atomic BombThe Atomic Bomb

• August 6, 1945, U.S. dropped atomic August 6, 1945, U.S. dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima, wiped bomb on Hiroshima, wiped out 70 percent of the out 70 percent of the city and killed city and killed 70,000 70,000 Japanese civilians. Japanese civilians.

• 22ndnd bomb in Nagasaki bomb in Nagasaki

three days three days later killed 40,000+ later killed 40,000+

NagasakiNagasaki

The The remains remains

of a small of a small child in child in

NakasakiNakasaki

Surrender of JapanSurrender of Japan

• Emperor Hirohito forces his generals to Emperor Hirohito forces his generals to surrendersurrender

• Aug. 15th 1945 V-J DayAug. 15th 1945 V-J Day

Hiroshima, Aug 6 Nagasaki, Aug 9Sep 2, 1945 unconditional surrender

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