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Germans in France, Netherlands
and Belgium
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German rule in France.
German rule in Netherlands.
German rule in Belgium.
Collaboration with Germans.
Resistance movement in France.
German Rule in Czechoslovakia
and Poland
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Division of Czechoslovakia.
German rule in Czechoslovakia.
Resistance in Czechoslovakia.
Death of Reinhard Heydrich.
Lidice.
German rule in Poland. Hans Frank.
Question of Polish Jews.
The Jewish Question
• Aryan theory and German superiority
according it.
• Jewish question in Germany.
• The Crystal Night – November 9-10,
1938.
• Ghettoes and Concentration Camps.
• Problem with the Polish Jews.
• Hitler wants to solve problem forever.
The Final Solution
• The Wannsee Conference – January 20,
1942.
• Heydrich’s plan.
• Adoption of Heydrich’s plan and
decision to exterminate all Jews, who
cannot work; all others had to be
exhausted by work and then killed.
• Why Jews did not oppose German
repressions with the whole strength?
The Final Solution in Action
• Concentration Camps and mass
murders of Jews.
• Auschwitz (Oswiencim).
• Gas lorries and Chambers.
• Josef Mengele.
• Adolf Eichmann.
• World’s reaction to the news of Nazi
barbarities.