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Chapter 5 Experiments in Brutality, 1939-1940
War against Poland the So-called Euthanasia
Program 101-129
Big Picture Questions 1) How why did Germany
invade conquer Poland? 2) What did they do
after the conquest of Poland to enact Nazi
policies? (divide conquer) 3) How why was
the Euthanasia Program enacted within Germany to
enact Nazi racial policies?
Wehrmacht parade in Warsaw (Oct. 5, 1939)
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Poland disappears from the map of Europe
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Jewish Emigration from Germany (1933-1938)
Country Jewish Emigration
Country Jewish Emigration
United States 102,000
United Kingdom 52,200
Argentina 63,500
France 30,000
South Africa 26,100
Netherlands 30,000
Shanghai, China 20,000
Poland 25,000
Australia 8,600
Belgium 12,000
Brazil 8,000
Portugal 10,000
Bolivia 7,000
Yugoslavia 7,000
Canada 6,000
Switzerland 7,000
Cuba 3,000
Italy 5,000
Palestine 33,390
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Jewish emigration from Germany (pre-1933
boundaries)
Year Jews leaving (estimated)
Year Jewish immigration (U.S.)
1933 37,000
1933-4 4,100
1934 23,000
1934-5 4,800
1935 21,000
1935-6 6,200
1936 25,000
1936-7 11,300
1937 23,000
1937-8 19,700
1938 40,000
1938-9 43,400
1939 78,000
1939-40 36,900
1940 15,000
1940-1 23,700
1941 8,000
1941-2 10,600
1942 8,500
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Everybodys Hitler (1940)
How his enemies
slandered Hitler
"Terror is everywhere, the people are being
tortured!" Hitler's enemies claimed that and
spread pictures like this.
This is how the terror in Germany really looks!
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At night Frau Keppelmeier turns her dial,And
listens in on London.She sits there listening to
lies,Happily being led astray.
Nazi poster in Austria (late 1941)
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Churchill says to Stalin, as they drive a
locomotive named Roosevelt "Well, Stalin, if
noise were power, this wouldn't be such a bad
locomotive.".
Fliegende Blätter (1942)
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Chapter 6 Expansion Systematization Exporting
War Terror, 1940-1941 131-159
Big Picture Questions 1) How why did the
terror suffering expand with the German
campaigns of 1940-41? 2) How were Nazi policies
of race space put into practice with the
invasion of the Soviet Union? 3) How why was
the line crossed to annihilation? Wannsee
Conference?
Einsatzgruppen D (Vinnitsa, Ukraine) 1942
Einsatzgruppen A (Lithuiania)