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World War II part 4

World War II part 4. The Holocaust . The Nazi state condemned all European Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and captured communist to extermination. In 1941 Hitler and the Nazi leadership stopped all Jewish immigration from Europe and speeded up planning for a mass murder.

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World War II part 4

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  1. World War II part 4

  2. The Holocaust • The Nazi state condemned all European Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and captured communist to extermination. • In 1941 Hitler and the Nazi leadership stopped all Jewish immigration from Europe and speeded up planning for a mass murder. • Jews were forced into ghettos and prevented from leaving. The most notorious ghetto was Warsaw. The Ghetto in Warsaw housed 400,000 people.

  3. The Holocaust • All over Nazi controlled Europe Jews were arrested, packed like cattle on freight trains, and sent to extermination camps. • Some Jews sent to Concentration camps were used as slave labor. They were poorly fed and taken care of. • Some Jews sent to Concentration camps were sent directly to the gas chambers.

  4. The Holocaust • When the Germans began pushing into Russia they established mobile killing units to kill Jews that lived in Soviet territory. • The Germans also established several special Concentration camps for the purpose of killing large numbers of Jews and destroying their bodies.

  5. The Holocaust • As Americans and allied soldiers pushed closer into Europe towards Germany they started to discover German Concentration Camps. • When the Russians discovered Auschwitz in 1945 there were 7,000 starving survivors and hundreds of thousands of pieces of clothes a strong indication that more had been held there.

  6. The Holocaust

  7. Post War G. I. Bill • The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, known informally as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s). • Benefits included low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, cash payments of tuition and living expenses to attend college, high school or vocational education, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. • It was available to every veteran who had been on active duty during the war years for at least ninety days and had not been dishonorably discharged; combat was not required. • By the end of the program in 1956, roughly 2.2 million veterans had used the G.I. Bill education benefits in order to attend colleges or universities, and an additional 6.6 million used these benefits for some kind of training program. G I = government issue

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