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.
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.