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Hitler’s “New Order” Revealed

Hitler’s “New Order” Revealed. Final Solution. Wannsee Conference. January, 1942 Set up a systematic plan for exterminating the Jews Use of poison gas Concentration camps set up. Intended as a solution to the “Jewish question” Heinrich Himmler: Head of the SS, headed the final solution.

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Hitler’s “New Order” Revealed

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  1. Hitler’s “New Order” Revealed Final Solution Wannsee Conference January, 1942 Set up a systematic plan for exterminating the Jews Use of poison gas Concentration camps set up • Intended as a solution to the “Jewish question” • Heinrich Himmler: Head of the SS, headed the final solution. • At first: Rounded up Jews and shot them in large groups

  2. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

  3. Concentration Camps • Separation into groups as you entered (age, health, and sex) • Unable to do work/weak: Sent to “showers” • Able to do work: Average life span: 3 months )forced labor, brutal treatment, starvation, filth, and disease) • Germany: Largest: Dachau and Buchenwald • Poland: Largest: Treblinka and Aushwitz • At first: Buried their dead in mass graves • Later: Huge ovens to cremate their dead.

  4. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Entrance to Auschwitz:Work Makes You Free Crematoria at Majdanek

  5. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Mass Graves at Bergen-Belsen

  6. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Eli Wiesel Slave Labor at Buchenwald

  7. The Nuremberg War Trials:Crimes Against Humanity

  8. Nuremberg Trials: 1945-46 • Full horror of of German concentration camps and Nazi racial purification was revealed to the world. • Hitler was dead and many high-ranking officials had fled to South America. • Many were captured. • International court met in Nuremberg, Germany. • 22 Nazi leaders charged with crimes against peace and humanity. • 12 Sentenced to death • 7 Sentenced to life imprisonment • 3 Acquitted • Court declared the Nazi party a criminal organization

  9. Japanese War Crimes Trials General Hideki Tojo -Sentenced to death: November 12, 1948: -Executed by hanging -In his final moments, he apologized for the atrocities committed by the Japanese military and urged to U.S.A. to show compassion toward the Japanese people

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