Held on January 20th‚ 1942 in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee * 15 men gathered to discuss the “Final Solution” * The conference was held by an SS officer named Reinhard Heydrich * The purpose of the conference was to inform administrative leaders of departments responsible for various policies relating to Jews. * Heydrich proposed the deportation of Jews from Europe and North Africa to the east. * By the end of the conference‚ it was concluded that Jews would be annihilated Final
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Holocaust Timeline 1933-1946 The beginning- 1933: Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. A Chancellor is a leader or head official of a country 1933: Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near the city of Munich. 1934: German President Von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Fuhrer (leader). As he was next in line… 1935: Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed (went into effect) German Jews deprived of citizenship. Jews were not allowed to marry Aryan Germans. 1936: Olympic Games begin in
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The early 20th century is known for its systematic deflation of the traditional rules of Western art. Artists of this era overthrew long held conventions in a series of movements‚ all arising before 1920. For example Cubists created new styles of composition in painting as well as sculpture. Fauvists and Expressionists attacked traditional notions of pictorial representations through brushwork and bright colors. This is referred to as the style of abstraction. Abstract Expressionists attempted
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Hannah Brooks Mr. Turner World History II 27 November 2012 The Holocaust The Holocaust is one of the worst scenarios of genocide ever known to the world. The Jewish people of Europe were terrorized and slaughtered over a period that lasted nearly two and half years. During that time‚ nearly eleven million people were killed‚ including six million Jews. Even though the actual mass killings of the Jews lasted about two and a half years‚ the planning of this genocide started many years earlier
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driving force behind the obsessive and fanatical Nazi persecution and ultimately also the mass slaughter of the Jews and various other groups‚ though the details of implementation were left to the terror apparatus‚ headed by Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich. The rise of the Nazis is the main cause of the Holocaust. According to Kimel‚ the Nazis took advantage of the bad state of Germany‚ at the time in order to take control of the country. After World War I‚ German pride was hurt by the Versailles
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size and technologically superior to those found in the Aktion Reinhard camps. New methods of extermination also became practiced at Auschwitz. Zyklon-B‚ a poisonous gas made up of Prussic acid and originally used for pest control‚ was used in place of carbon monoxide to exterminate Jews. Zyklon-B was manufactured by the German corporation Tesch and Stabenow and originally tested on Russian POWs. Unlike the camps of Aktion Reinhard‚ where victims’ corpses were buried in surrounding meadows‚ Auschwitz
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Gleichschaltung‚ thus establishing a totalitarian grip over all branches of the Third Reich. Once he had grown assured of his subjects’ submission‚ Hitler began to outsource the regime’s workings to SS‚ and to a lesser extent SA officers‚ like Reinhard Heydrich and Joseph Goebbels‚ whom he considered competent enough to implement his Weltanschauung. Unscrupulous careerists like these were a product of the ‘Cult of the Führer’‚ which had given rise to an atmosphere of total adhesion to Hitler’s ends
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History Learning Site- "The Hitler Youth was seen as being as important to a child as school was". The Hitler Youth was a logical extension of Hitler’s belief that the future of Nazi Germany was its children. "The weak must be chiselled away. I want young men and women who can suffer pain. A young German must be as swift as a greyhound‚ as tough as leather‚ and as hard as Krupp’s steel." Movements for youngsters were part of German culture and the Hitler Youth had been created
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During the Second World War it was heavily involved in the resistance to German occupation. On 21st September 1939‚ Reinhard Heydrich told several Schutz Staffeinel (SS) commanders in Poland that all Jews were to be confined to special areas in cities and towns. These ghettos were to be surrounded by barbed wire‚ brick walls and armed guards. The first ghetto was set up in
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to watch and control their movements. The badge also facilitated deportation. Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels was the first to suggest a "general distinguishing mark" for German Jews in a memorandum in May 1938. Security Police chief Reinhard Heydrich reiterated the idea at a November 12‚ 1938‚ meeting convened by Herman Göring following Kristallnacht. In both cases no immediate action was taken. The Germans implemented a complex system of identifying badges for inmates in concentration camps
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