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Genocide

Genocide. The End of the Holocaust. Entrance to Auschwitz “Work will set you free”. Crowded Conditions. Photo credit: German National Archives. eyeglasses. Shoes. Liberated Russian children cheer / Dachau. After Liberation.

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Genocide

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  1. Genocide The End of the Holocaust

  2. Entrance to Auschwitz “Work will set you free”

  3. Crowded Conditions

  4. Photo credit: German NationalArchives

  5. eyeglasses

  6. Shoes

  7. Liberated Russian children cheer / Dachau

  8. After Liberation Survivors of the Holocaust faced the difficult task of trying to get their lives back. Many of them did not want to stay in Europe anymore and decided to move to the United States or Israel.

  9. Nuremburg Trials Held in Nuremburg, Germany 1945-46 (10 mo.) Prosecutors = Russia, US, Great Britain, France Indicted: 24 German men 6 Nazi Party organizations Charges: Systematic murder and planning war in Europe

  10. Nuremburg Trials Charges against the Nazi defendants: Conspiracy to Wage Aggressive War Crimes Against Peace War Crimes Crimes Against Humanity

  11. Nuremburg Trials From U.S. Justice Robert Jackson: “The crimes which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated.” Your summary?

  12. Nuremburg Trials Verdicts and Sentences against 22 men: 3 – Acquitted = NOT guilty 7 – Long prison sentences 12 – Sentenced to death  19 men guilty for 11 million deaths

  13. Is justice served? Does the punishment fit the crime?

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