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UNFORGIVABLE ACTIONS
Japanese
Wartime
Atrocities and
the Holocaust
JAPANESE HORRORS
ALL THAT LEADS
TO…
 Rape of Nanking
 Bataan Death March
 Unit 731
 VIVISECTION – practice of
performing operations on live
humans for the purpose of
scientific research
 No anesthetics
 Infection with disease
 Frostbite testing
 Forced pregnancy
 Weapons testing
AMERICAN INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE
AMERICANS
 1942 – US War Department starts the policy of
internment
 Internment - Temporary holding of members of a specific group
 Japanese families were sent to internment camps for the rest
of the war
 One room shacks with multiple families inside
 Food shortages
GERMAN ATROCITIES
BEFORE THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Nuremberg
Laws
Kristallnacht
First Nazi
attack on the
Jews
MANY JEWS WHO CAN LEAVE DO
ISOLATING THE JEWS
 All Jews left in Germany were forced into ghettos –
segregated areas
 Overcrowded, horrible living conditions, made of barbed wire
and stone walls
 Many Jews died from starvation or disease
THE FINAL SOLUTION - 1939
 Einsatzgruppen - Killing
Squads for
“undesirables”
 Inefficient
 One reason to move to
concentration and
death camps
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Originally work camps to promote the success
 “Undesirables” and political opponents sent there
 Death by starvation
 Doctors performed medical experiments on
prisoners (Dachau)
 Thousands died
DEATH CAMPS
 Wannsee Conference – Nazi leaders
decide to carry out “Final Solution”
 Final Solution – Systematic
extermination of “undesirables”
 Concentration camps turned into death
camps
 Nazis forced prisoners into death
chambers
 Carbon monoxide or Zyklon B was
pumped in
 11 million killed
AUSCHWITZ
 1.1-1.6 million
killed
 Buchenwald
 Labor camp and
medical
experiment
center