2. KEY EVENTS AND BATTLES IN EUROPE…

3. Crematoria Entrance to Auschwitz: Work Makes You Free Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

4. THE FINAL SOLUTION The Final Solution – a policy of genocide that involved the deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population. rested on the belief that Aryans were superior people and that the purity of the “Master Race” must be preserved

5. THE FINAL STAGE Dachau, gas chamber

8. IMAGES FROM A NIGHTMARE Some of these images are disturbing

9. The main entrance of Auschwitz Extermination Camp, with its infamous motto "Work Makes One Free"

10. Prisoners in nearby woods just before their execution. (1933)

11. Jewish women, some are holding infants as they are forced to wait in a line before their execution by Germans and Ukrainian collaborators.

12. Over 2 million children were killed during the Holocaust

13. A German policeman shoots individual Jewish women who remain alive in the ravine after the mass execution. (1942)

14. Children subjected to medical experiments in Auschwitz

15. A truckload of bodies at Buchenwald concentration camp

16. At Dachau concentration camp, two U.S. soldiers gaze at Jews who died on board a death train

17. A Nazi about to shoot the last Jew left alive in Vinica, Ukraine.

18. Survivors on the day of liberation

19. wanted to wipe out Stalingrad – a major industrial centerHitler wanted to wipe out Stalingrad – a major industrial center Germans took the offensive in the southern Soviet UnionIn the summer of 1942, the Germans took the offensive in the southern Soviet Union the winter of 1943By the winter of 1943, the Allies began to see victories on land as well as sea first great turning point was the Battle of StalingradThe first great turning point was the Battle of Stalingrad Battle of Stalingrad was a huge Allied victory BATTLE OF STALINGRAD, RUSSIA

20. Tough cold winters killed many NAZI troops in USSR.

21. Invasion of Normandy, France: Operation overlord (D-DAY)

22. D-DAY JUNE 6, 1944 D-Day was the largest land-sea-air operation in military historyD-Day was the largest land-sea-air operation in military history D-Day was an amphibious landing – soldiers going from sea to land

23. Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945 The F ü hrer’s Bunker Cyanide & Pistols Mr. & Mrs. Hitler

24. Germany surrenders 1945

25. V-E Day (May 8, 1945)