1. Chapter 29
Results of World War II

2. The Holocaust
Jan. 1942, top Nazi officials met in Wannsee to plan systematic and efficient extermination of Jews
“a final solution to the Jewish question”
Organized a system of:
Concentration Camps where Jews from around Europe were gathered
Extermination Camps were Jews and other “undesirables” were killed
- Roma (gypsies), homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Russian P.O.W’s, Communists, Poles, Magyars

3. The Holocaust
“Our strength consists in our speed and in our brutality. Genghis Khan led millions of women and children to slaughter—with premeditation and a happy heart. History sees in him solely the founder of a state. It’s a matter of indifference to me what a weak western European civilization will say about me. I have issued the command—and I’ll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad—that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formation in readiness—for the present only in the East—with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space (Lebensraum) which we need. Who, after all, speaks to-day of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
-Adolf Hitler

5. The Holocaust
Upon arrival to the camps, S.S. doctors selected who would be sent to work camps,
- and who would be sent immediately to the gas chambers
Forced labor at concentration camps supported the German war effort
Some underwent grotesque medical experimentation

6. Signs at the gates read “work makes free”
The Holocaust
Signs at the gates read “work makes free”

7. Working and Living in the Camps

8. Medical Experiments

9. Holocaust

10. Death Camps
Gas Chamber
Crematorium

11. The Holocaust
7 million Jews killed
6 million “undesirables” killed

12. Who is responsible for the Holocaust?

13. 45,000,000-55,000,000 casualties

14. The Devastation of the War
Industrial capacity in 1945 was half of the 1939 level
Many major cities destroyed
Communication and transportation networks destroyed

15. The Devastation of the War
Refugees
60 million displaced people
Prisoners of war
German slave laborers
People who had moved to avoid fighting

16. Potsdam Meeting June 1945 Potsdam Meeting June 1945
Harry Truman replace FDR, who had died
Clement Attlee replaced Churchill, who had been defeated in elections
Josef Stalin

17. Potsdam Meeting June 1945 Potsdam Meeting June 1945
All Nazi institutions abolished
German arms production limited, industry controlled
Democracy and Free Speech restored
Germany divided into 4 zones of occupation, as was Berlin

18. War Crimes Trials Nuremburg Trials 1945-1946 International tribunal
Punish Hitler’s closest associates for “Crimes Against Humanity”
Exposed the horrors of the Nazi regime

19. International Agencies
United Nations

20. International Agencies
Bretton Woods Conference 1944
International Monetary Fund
World Bank
Created to help reconstruction, capital investment and creation of stable currencies