Japanese Wartime Atrocities and the Holocaust Unforgivable actions Japanese Wartime Atrocities and the Holocaust

Japanese Horrors

All that leads to… Rape of Nanking Bataan Death March

Unit 731 VIVISECTION – practice of performing operations on live humans for the purpose of scientific research No anesthetics Infection with disease Frostbite testing Forced pregnancy Weapons testing

American Internment of Japanese Americans 1942 – US War Department starts the policy of internment Internment - Temporary holding of members of a specific group Japanese families were sent to internment camps for the rest of the war One room shacks with multiple families inside Food shortages

German Atrocities

Before the Concentration Camps Nuremberg Laws Kristallnacht First Nazi attack on the Jews

Many Jews who can leave do

Isolating the jews All Jews left in Germany were forced into ghettos – segregated areas Overcrowded, horrible living conditions, made of barbed wire and stone walls Many Jews died from starvation or disease

The Final Solution - 1939 Einsatzgruppen - Killing Squads for “undesirables” Inefficient One reason to move to concentration and death camps

Concentration camps Originally work camps to promote the success “Undesirables” and political opponents sent there Death by starvation Doctors performed medical experiments on prisoners (Dachau) Thousands died

Death Camps Wannsee Conference – Nazi leaders decide to carry out “Final Solution” Final Solution – Systematic extermination of “undesirables” Concentration camps turned into death camps Nazis forced prisoners into death chambers Carbon monoxide or Zyklon B was pumped in 11 million killed

Auschwitz 1.1-1.6 million killed Buchenwald Labor camp and medical experiment center