1. Describe what fighting was like during WWI.
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RAISING YOUR HAND,
Describe what fighting was like during WWI.
What made it this way? 1

2. What is different about this war?
Fast Forward. . .
to WWII.
What is different about this war? 2

3. Same deadly technologies from WWI +
New, even deadlier, even more brutal weapons
HATRED, ANGER, RACISM =
Unimaginable atrocities committed by ALL 3

4. The Rape of Nanking & The Holocaust Today's Agenda Two Exterminations:4

5. The Rape of Nanking
(December, 1937) 5

6. Background Japan invades China View of Chinese
Territorial expansion
View of Chinese
Prince Asaka: loot and rape what you want
“Battle” of Nanking (Dec. 9) 6

7. Mopping Up Japan's view of surrender/retreat Extermination
“The killing contest” 7

8. The Rape Gang rape Genital mutilation Forced incest
Elderly, young girls
Genital mutilation
Forced incest
Religious devotees (monks) 8

9. “The seventh and last person in the first row was a pregnant woman
“The seventh and last person in the first row was a pregnant woman. The soldier thought he might as well rape her before killing her, so he pulled her out of the group to a spot about ten meters away. As he was trying to rape her, the woman resisted fiercely ... The soldier abruptly stabbed her in the belly with a bayonet. She gave a final scream as her intestines spilled out. Then the soldier stabbed the fetus, with its umbilical cord clearly visible, and tossed it aside.” 9

10. City Destroyed 10

11. The 10,000 Corpse Ditch 11

12. 12

13. Bayonetted 13

14. 14

15. Beheaded 15

16. 16

18. Shot 18

19. Numbers 57,000 POWs killed 20,000 women raped
200, ,000 killed in 6 weeks 19

20. My question for YOU:
How come EVERYBODY learns about the Holocaust, but few learn about the Nanking Massacre?

21. The Holocaust:
“The Final Solution”
( ) 21

22. Process of Removal 22

23. Step 1: Identify “German”
A. Nuremburg Laws (1935)
1. Germans have no Jewish blood in three generations
a. The mitchling (the mixed) – anyone with a Jewish connection in
three generations 23

24. Step 2: Deny rights A. Nuremburg Laws (continued)
1. Stripped of citizenship
2. Banned from professional affiliations
3. Overall exclusion 24

25. Step 3: Educate and Ostracize
A. Massive campaign
1. Educate Germans in anti-Semitic ways
2. Cast Jews out from society 25

26. Step 4: Sterilization & Infanticide
A. Eliminate all parasitic, degenerate entities
1. Mentally retarded
2. Disabled
* 6,000 babies killed 26

27. Step 5: Lebensraum A. Create space for German super-state in the East
1. 60,000 Jews still remained in Germany
2. Millions of Jews in Poland/USSR
What to do, what to do. . . 27

28. Step 6: The Final Solution
A. Wannsee Conference
1. 16 German officials meet to figure out what to do
2. Meet for 90 minutes
3. Draw up lists of undesirables
4. Decide to put Jews in ghettos
a. Use able-bodied ones for labor, kill the rest 28

29. The United States Government
Hitler's Models:
Manuel Weyler
&
(drum roll……..)
The United States Government 29

30. Result: Concentration Camps! - Buchenwald - Dachau - Amersfoot
- Auschwitz
&
15,000 others 30

31. Rounded up and shipped off31

32. Starved, Worked to the bone32

35. Tortured 35

36. Tested 36

37. . . . and tested 37

38. Gassed 38

39. Cremated 39

40. . . . or thrown in a large hole40

41. Some tidbits. . . ID numbers Disinfected – like animals
Break down the mind – DON'T THINK
Dehumanization! 41

42. In all,
6 million killed 42

43. Final Comments
The nature of this war 43

44. Your Assignment RAFT – 1 page Role: witness to one of the events
Audience: a news reporter
Format: Letter explaining what you've seen
Task: Relay your story so it goes public and will convince people to help 44