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

2. Japanese Horrors

3. All that leads to…
Rape of Nanking
Bataan Death March

4. 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

5. 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

6. German Atrocities

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

8. Many Jews who can leave do

9. 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

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

12. 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

13. 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

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