“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? Chapter 5: Experiments in Brutality, : War against Poland & the So-called Euthanasia Program [ ] Wehrmacht parade in Warsaw (Oct. 5, 1939)
Poland disappears from the map of Europe
Jewish Emigration from Germany ( ) Country Jewish Emigration United States102,000 Argentina63,500 South Africa26,100 Shanghai, China20,000 Australia8,600 Brazil8,000 Bolivia7,000 Canada6,000 Cuba3,000 United Kingdom52,200 France30,000 Netherlands30,000 Poland25,000 Belgium12,000 Yugoslavia7,000 Switzerland7,000 Italy5,000 Country Jewish Emigration Portugal10,000 Palestine33,390
Jewish emigration from Germany (pre-1933 boundaries) YearJews leaving (estimated) , , , , , , , , , ,500 YearJewish immigration (U.S.) , , , , , , , , ,600
Everybody’s Hitler Everybody’s 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!
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)
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)
“Big Picture” Questions: 1) How & why did the terror & suffering expand with the German campaigns of ? 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? Chapter 6: Expansion & Systematization: Exporting War & Terror, [ ] Einsatzgruppen A (Lithuiania) Einsatzgruppen D (Vinnitsa, Ukraine) 1942