1. Rape of Nanking Capital of China at the time Lasted from 6-8 weeks
Japanese>Chinese as Nazis>Jews
Fed to dogs, beheaded, used as target practice, frozen alive, experimented on, raped.
Women were gang raped and men were burned and shot at by the thousands (about 250,000).
MacArthur traded silence for Japanese research on germ warfare’s affects on humans

2. Rape of Nanking Law against raping enemy women just led to murder.
After raping them many of the Japanese soldiers cut parts off.
Streets were full of bodies, and intestines were strewn all over the place.
400,000 est. killed in 8 weeks
Younger than 8 and older than 70 raped and tortured.
Tied men to posts and stuck needles in them, crucified them, ran over them, etc…

3. The Holocaust
Holocaust Memorial in Berlin

4. Jews Targeted Anti-Semitism was deep rooted in European history.
***READ FIRST PAGE OF BOOKLET***
Anti-Semitism was deep rooted in European history.
Scapegoats for all problems including WWI.
Hitler’s Germany = racially pure (ARYAN race)
Nuremburg Laws = stripped Jews of civil rights
Kristallnacht = night of broken glass
November 9th, 1938

5. Timeline :
Jews are no longer allowed National health insurance or legal qualifications and are banned from teaching Germans, accounting, and dentistry.
Hitler becomes Fuhrer: approval rating is 90%.
Jews are banned from serving in the military.
The German Gestapo is placed “above the law”.
Olympic Games take place in Berlin(Hitler is popular).
1938:
Kritstallnacht
Jews are issued identification cards.
Jewish doctors are no longer allowed to practice medicine.
Jewish people are forced to add Christian names to their legal documents.
Nazis arrest Jews of Polish decent and deport them.

6. Timeline cont… 1939: 1940: Nazis take all gold and silver from Jews.
Jews are given curfews and begin to be placed into ghettos.
Trains
Unsanitary, over crowded, and lack of food
Jews are referred to as a “plague” in German newspapers.
Hitler makes proclamation about isolation of Jews.
Polish Jews are forced to wear yellow stars to identify themselves.
1940:
Nazis build Auschwitz concentration camp.
German Jews are deported to Poland and France.

7. Timeline cont… 1941: 1942: First use of Zyklon-B gas in Auschwitz.
Jews from other countries begin being deported to Auschwitz.
New York Times reports that 100s of 1,000s of Jews have been gunned down by Nazis.
Medical experiments begin at Auschwitz.
Britain recognizes Nazi goal to exterminate the Jewish people.
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8. Timeline cont…
1943:
Nazis dig up bodies of over one million Jews that were killed and burn the evidence.
First Jewish resistance at Concentration Camps-some actually escape.
Gas chambers and crematories open at Auschwitz.
Dr. Mengele arrives at Auschwitz and begins performing operations.

9. Timeline cont…
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1944:
Roosevelt creates War Refugee Board and accuses Germany and Japan of “crimes against humanity”.
Anne Frank and her family are arrested by Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz.
Nazis continue to gas Jews at Auschwitz and force others to run miles in winter weather.
1945:
Nazis conduct death marches of Concentration Camp inmates as allies approach.
Russians Liberate Budapest, Warsaw, and Auschwitz.
Allies liberate Buchenwald and U.S. Army liberates Dachau.
Americans free 33,000 concentration camp inmates.
Germany signs unconditional surrender.

10. Hitler’s Final Solution
*Put into lines and sorted-torn from family
*Buried Bodies, then built Crematorium to hide evidence
*Prisoners buried their own dead/put them in crematorium(Family threatened)
*Forced Labor-worked to death

11. Concentration Camps Mass executions
Still did not satisfy the Germans
Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp
Bodies burned in ovens
Massive burial pits
Covered up evidence
Jews were put to death by:
Gas chambers
Killed 6,000 daily
Scientific experiments
Hanged
Injected w/poison
Executed

12. Who was killed? Two thirds of all European Jews Killed Jews
Jehovah’s witnesses
Catholics
Communists
Socialists
Gypsies
Homosexuals
Soviet POWs
Two thirds of all European Jews Killed

13. Adolf Eichmann
Appointed by Hitler as mastermind and helped to organize and implement:
Kristallnacht
Deportation and Final Solution
Death camps and Gas chambers
Escaped to Buenos Aires with a new name
Found by 5 Israelis
Long process began in 1961
Signatures and Ordered murder of boy who ate cherries.
Death sentence in May of 1962

14. Heinrich Himmler Head of S.S. Involved in Speech to S.S.
Implementation of Final Solution
Camp security
Gas chamber because of women and children in “cold blood”
Speech to S.S.
Extermination of Jews was a “small matter”
Better place in war due to lack of Jews
Any German who disagrees…
Fled in May of 1945 and was captured by British: bit cyanide pill

15. Josef Mengele Chief Doctor at Auschwitz “Angel of Death” and “Uncle”
Twins, dwarfs, eye color, abnormalities, created Siamese twins, dissected, chemicals in eyes, pregnant women, etc…
Fled to Farm in Germany, then to Argentina, them Paraguay, then stroke while swimming.

16. Liberation Forced Death Marches
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Forced Death Marches
Allies liberated the first camps in July of 1944
Soviets first to get there
6 million Jews had died
Found 14,000 lbs of hair, clothes, etc…