1. Holocausts of World War II
How did the Japanese & Germans persecute civilians?

2. Rape of Nanking: Forgotten Holocaust of WW II
1931: Japan invades Manchuria, 1937: Japan invades rest of China
Japanese sack Peking (Beijing), Shanghai, capital city of Nanking
Japanese soldiers kill civilians & POWs, rape women and force other women into prostitution (comfort women) – 300K in 6 weeks
American response: Impose economic sanctions on Japan, but League of Nations had already done this
Discuss: Why did the US have a weak response to Japanese aggression?

3. Holocaust in Europe
Nuremberg Laws (1935)
Defined race & citizenship in Nazi Germany
2. Kristallnacht (1938)
Businesses, homes are smashed & burned by SS, thousands of Jews are arrested by Gestapo
3. Relocation to ghettos (1940)
Send Jews into walled off parts of cities, mostly in Poland

4. US Response to Nazi Aggression
FDR: “feel sorry for Jews, but can’t do much for them”
740 Jews with US immigration papers board the St. Louis, headed to Miami, US doesn’t allow them into country
St. Louis passengers must return to Europe, 50% killed in Holocaust

5. Final Solution
Nazis develop plan of genocide called “the Final Solution”
SS killing squads shot people & bury the bodies in mass graves, but eventually Nazis turn to poison gas
1942: People are shipped to death camps, mostly in Poland, camps had gas chambers that could kill up to 6K a day