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.