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The end of WWII in Europe
Liberation of the Death Camps
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Soviet Union was the first to come across a
concentration camp in Poland- July 1944
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SS guards worked to bury and burn all
evidence
 1,000 starving prisoners barely alive
 Largest crematorium
 Store house of 800,000 shoes
Unconditional Surrender
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April 25, 1945 Soviet Army stormed Berlin
Underground headquarters – Hitler prepared
April 28, 1945- married longtime companion, Eva
Brawn
Hitler wrote his last address to the German people.
Blames the Jews for starting the war and his generals
for losing it.
Next day- shot himself, Eva drink poison
Bodies- carried out, gasoline poured on them and
they were burned
V-E Day
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May 8. 1945 unconditional surrender of the
Third Reich
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Victory in Europe Day
President Roosevelt dies- April 12, 1945 of a
stroke
 Harry S. Truman is the new president
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The Holocaust
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Persecution began April 7, 1933
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All non-aryan removed from government jobs
Holocaust- the systematic murder of 6 million Jews across
Europe
Target- Jews were the main target
 Disliked- gypsies, freemasons, Jehovah’s witness,
homosexuals, mentally deficient, mentally ill, physically
disabled, incurably ill
Spread Anti-semitism- hatred of Jews
1935 Nuremburg Laws- stripped Jews of German citizenship,
jobs, property. Had to wear a tar of David attacked to
clothing
 swastika
Kristallnacht
 “Night
of Broken Glass”- Nazi attacked
Jewish homes, business, and synagogues
across Germany and Austria.
 100
Jews killed, 100’s more injured
 Some 30,000 Jews arrested and 100’s of
synagogues where burnt
 Nazi’s blames the Jews for the
destruction
Jewish Refugees
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Jews fleeing Germany had trouble finding
nations that would accept them.
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Why?
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America accepted 100,000 Jews in the United
States
Hitler’s Final Solution
Genocide- systematic killing of a group of
people
 Death Squads
 Ghetto’s
 Concentration Camps
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