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Document 1: German Conquests by 1942

Document 1: German Conquests by 1942. Document 2: The Nazi New Order. Nazi occupied Europe was organized in two ways : Some areas annexed and made into German provinces Most areas were occupied and administered by Germans

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Document 1: German Conquests by 1942

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  1. Document 1: German Conquests by 1942

  2. Document 2: The Nazi New Order • Nazi occupied Europe was organized in two ways: • Some areas annexed and made into German provinces • Most areas were occupied and administered by Germans • Racial considerations: those considered “Aryan” were treated with lenience (Norway, Netherlands, Denmark) • Resettlement plans of the East • Poles were uprooted and moved • 2 million ethnic Germans settled Poland, 1942 • Need for labor: exploitation of conquered people • By 1944, 20% of German workforce was foreign!

  3. Document 3: Resistance Movements • France: Charles de Gaulle • Free French movement • Against Communist liberation groups • Yugoslavia: Communist Josip Broz (“Tito”) • Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ) • Communist leader who later broke with Stalin and the Soviet bloc • Germany • The White Rose movement, Hans and Sophie Scholl • Gestapo executes all involved students • Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg • Stauffenberg assassination attempt (Operation Valkyrie)

  4. Document 4: “The Jewish Question” • First Plan: Madagascar Plan • Ship Jews to Madagascar • Second Plan: Einsatzgrupen (special forces) • confine Jews to ghettos • begin policy of shooting large groups: too difficult • Third Plan: Final Solution---Death camps • In operation by the spring of 1942 • Shipments of Jews from Poland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Greece, southern France, Italy, and Denmark • Use ZyklonB (hydrogen cyanide) to kill prisoners who could not work • Rudolf Hoess---commandant of the Auschwitz-Birkau Death Camp • 2/3 European Jews Killed by 1945 • The Other Holocaust • Death of 9 - 10 million people beyond the 5 - 6 million Jews • 40 percent of European Gypsies, Homosexuals, handicapped

  5. Document 4: “The Jewish Question” cont… Death camps v. Concentration Camps

  6. Document 5: Home Front • Great Britain • 55 percent of the people were in ‘‘war work” • By 1944, women held 50 percent of the civil service positions • Dig for Victory • Emphasis on a planned economy • Luftwaffe begin the Blitz in Britain beginning in 1940 • The Soviet Union • “Great Patriotic War” • Enormous losses, 2 of every 5 killed in World War II were Russians • Supercentralization(total control by Stalin) • 55% of income used on war supplies • Factories moved to the interior when Germans advanced • Starvation due to increased focus on war production • 60% women in factories • Only country in WWII to use women in combat • Germany • Continued production of consumer goods first two years of the war • Plan: Blitzkrieg and then plunder conquered countries • Total mobilization of the economy not until 1944: too little too late! • British raids of German cities began in 1942---didn’t start evacuating until 1943 • Dresden was worst---35,000 civilians dead

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