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The Defeat of Nazi
Germany and the
Holocaust
June 6, 1944
 D-Day. Allied forces storm the beaches of
Normandy and defeat the Germans.
Vive La France!
 By September of 1944, France is liberated
from German occupation.
Battle of the Bulge
 Last German offensive in WWII.
Berlin is invaded in 1945.
 The Soviet army take Berlin.
 Hitler commits suicide.
U.S. re-captures the Pacific
Islands
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hirohito surrenders.
Final Count
 15 million killed during the war.
 40 million dead from starvation, genocide,
and disease.
The Holocaust
Untermenschen
 Slavs were seen as
subhuman beasts.
 Many Poles were
killed.
 Marriage was limited
for the Poles to
prevent children.
Judenrein
 “Free of Jews”
 6 Million Jews lived in Poland alone
Anti-Semitism
 Prohibited Jews from
having certain jobs,
 Businesses were closed
Sundays.
 Jews enter medicine
and law professions.
1st Plan
 Herd all of the Jews into Lublin, Poland.
Ghettos
 Jews were forced to live in ghettos.
 The largest were in Lodz and Warsaw.
 Many died here of disease and
malnutrition.
Genocide
 1941- Jews were forced to leave the
ghettos for concentration camps.
1945
 90% of the Polish Jews were killed.