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Aim: How was the Nazi regime able to commit genocide?
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I- Definitions 1- Holocaust- Greek- complete destruction by fire
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2- Genocide- the systematic and planned extermination of an entire racial, ethic, political, religious or social group
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3- Final Solution- Der endlösung der Judenfrage- Nazi codeword for the physical extermination of European Jews A- decided at the Wansee Conference which took place on 20 Jan 1942- decided the number of Jews in each Nazi occupied territory that would be exterminated within a given amount of time B- Adolf Eichmann was the mastermind of the Final Solution
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4- Zyklon B- pesticide used in the gas chambers
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5- Einsatzgruppen- mobile killing units of the SS used before the advent of the gas chambers & camps
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6- Aryan- Übermensch- those of Germanic “pure blooded” background
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7- Eugenics- science of improving the human breeds through DNA to secure a desirable combination of physical & mental characteristics- Nazi policy of “euthanising” & removing reproductive organs of the handicapped A- Aktion T-4 – Tiergartenstraβe 4 Nazi policy of “racial hygene”
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8- Nuremberg Laws- laws instituted by the Nazis against Jews and others considered Üntermensch
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The Camps II- The Camps
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1- Concentration Camp- Konzentrationslager- forced labor camps located mainly in or around Germany
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2- Extermination Camp- Vernichtungslager located mainly in Poland to prevent the Allies from learning of the Final Solution- mainly women & children sent to prevent another generation from being born
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3- Prisoners were off-loaded from cattle cars, separated from their families & given tattoos for dehumanization purposes
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4- Gas chambers in the extermination camps were disguised as showers to prevent mass hysteria, chaos & rebellion
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Human Experimentation III- Human Experimentation 1- Dr. Josef Mengele- The “Angel of Death”- headed human experimentation at Auschwitz A- goal was to purify the Aryan race & have Aryans produce more multiple births B- experimented on pregnant women and twins C- twin experimentation- isolation endurance, blood transfusions, castration, dye injections, lethal germ injections, torture endurance, tissue samples, sex change operations, removal & exchange of organs and limbs, DNA, incest – all performed without anesthesia
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D- fertility experiments- to find optimal conditions for impregnation & gestation- mothers subjected to various stimuli & forms of stress, offspring monitored, experimented upon & killed – female sterilization
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2- Military experimentation- done mainly to further the war effort – modifications for equipment, soldiers, etc… A- Freezing- simulated arctic warfare & conditions along the Eastern Front to see how soon death would come & how best to resuscitate victims
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B- Pressure chambers- tested optimal conditions for the Luftwaffe & Ünterseeboots
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C- Sunlamps- simulated desert warfare & conditions in Africa to see how long a human could survive while the skin slowly burned & optimal treatments
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D- live bacterium, gasses & poisons were often injected into the veins & lungs of victims to test immunity & death rates
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IV- T TT The Lebensborn Project
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1- “Life Spring”- secret Nazi breeding program of the SS to enrich German racial lines & “assist” German women to give birth to racially pure children to increase the Aryan population for Hitler’s “Thousand Year Reich”
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2- Racially pure German women were mated with SS officers to produce offspring
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3- Some children remained with their birth parents, others were adopted by SS families or raised by the state
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V- T TT The Aftermath
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1- Over 12 million people were exterminated by the Nazi regime
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2- anyone deemed to be impure & not Aryan were to be liquidated- Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, political dissidents, physically & mentally handicapped, etc…
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3- The Nuremberg Trials- high ranking Nazi officials are tried for “crimes against humanity”
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A- Most tried were given prison sentences, 12 were given the death sentence
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B- Showed both leaders & soldiers could be held accountable for their actions in war “But this trial has shown that under a national crisis, ordinary men -- even able and extraordinary men -- can delude themselves into the commission of crimes so vast and heinous that they beggar the imagination…” - Judgement at Nuremberg
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