Eugenics

Euthanasia

Sir Francis Galton

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Concentration Camp Maps

1. First regular concentration camp 1933

2. Served as a model for future camps

3. Initially for political opponents

4. SS training conductedhere and served as aModel

5. At the end of the war,The Americans foundapproximately 32,000prisoners, crammed1,600 to each of 20barracks, which had beendesigned to house 250people each

Rape of Nanking

League of Nations 1919

Genocide

[A]ny of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

• Killing members of the group;• Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;• Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring

about its physical destruction in whole or in part;• Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;• Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.• The specific “intent to destroy” particular groups is unique to genocide.

A closely related category of international law, crimes against humanity, is defined as widespread or systematic attacks against civilians.

Raphael Lemkin

Wannsee Conference 1942

Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the SD (Security Service) and Nazi governor of Bohemia and Moravia.

German History

• 1st Reich

• 2nd Reich

• 3rd Reich

Germany During WWII