1. Chapter XIX SIII
By 1942 Nazi regime stretches from the English Channel to Moscow

2. Resettlement in the East
Himmler is in charge of resettlement.
In Poland one million Poles are being
evicted and replaced with German
families.
With the invasion of SU the plans are on the way to enslave the
Slavic population and serve as slave labor to Germans.
Slave labor in Germany-Why does Germany experience an
acute labor shortage?
Summer 1944: seven million people labor in Germany.
The story of Adolph Wolf, my grandfather.

3. Albert Speer, one of the main organizers
of the forced labor for Nazi Germany
A great organizer, he triples armament
production despite air raids.
Also, he served as minister of armaments
He was the only one who accepted
personal responsibility for Nazi atrocities
He was given only 20 years in jail.
Why such a mild punishment?
A. Speer-the architect
We shall meet him later during the
Nuremberg Trial.

4. A plan was drafted that called to the physical extermination of Jews
The Holocaust
A plan was drafted that called to the physical
extermination of Jews
It was the final solution-a genocide historically referred to as the Holocaust.
Einsatzgruppen - who were they?

5. They were a special commando. They were created by this man
They were a special commando.They were created by this man. Heydrich was a talented musician, fencer and absolutely
devoted to the Fuehrer. He and Himmler were the architects of the final solution for the Jewish population, when it was decided
that expulsion of Jews to Palestine would not be successful.
R. Heydrich
Heydrich was appointed as the protector of Bohemia and Moravia
Hated for his brutal rule, oppression and crimes, he was
assassinated in 1942 by British trained Czech paratroopers.
Heydrich was the only high ranking officer killed in occupied
Europe.

6. The town of Lidice (north west fromPrague) was obliterated
all the men executed and women and children
taken to the concentration camps where most of them parished.
Auschwitz in Poland becomes the centre of extermination of
European Jews.

8. Children of War It is estimated that 1,2 million Jewish children
died as the result of Holocaust.
In Germany many camps were set up to protect children from aerial bombing in the cities.
Similar thing occurred in Britain. At the end of the war there were around 13 million children
w/o parents.

9. Japan RC: How did the Japanese treat the native population?
“Asia for the Asiatics”
Burma, Dutch East Indies, Vietnam and the
Philippines.
Japan soon loses any support due to its harsh
treatment of local population and arrogance and contempt for local customs.
Koreans sent to Japan to work.
The Burma - Thailand rail road: POW and workers die by the end of the project.
RC: How did the
Japanese treat
the native population?
Starving Australian workers