Atrocities of World War II

HITLER’S NAZI GERMANY

He Proclaimed the

German People to be the:

MASTER RACE

He Proclaimed the

Jewish People to be the:

INFERIOR RACE

Laws were passed to

Deprive Jews of their Rights:

NUREMBURG LAWS

All Jews were

eventually required

to wear a yellow

“Star of David” on

their outer garments

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HITLER’S NAZI GERMANY

He Directed that Jews

should be deported

The son of a deported

Jew took revenge

SHOT A GERMAN DIPLOMAT

Nazis launched

Violent attacks on

Jews in Germany

KRISTALLNACHT

“Night of Broken Glass”

Nazis Stepped-Up

Policies Against

ALL Jews

PERSECUTION

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HITLER’S NAZI GERMANY

Jews react to the

Increased violence

REFUGEES

FLEE GERMANY

Remaining Jews

were either shot

or arrested by the

German SS

Many Jews were

Placed in

Segregated areas

of key cities

GHETTOS

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HITLER’S NAZI GERMANY

Hitler hoped that the

Living Conditions

in the Ghettos would

cause the Jews to:

STARVE TO DEATH

When the Jews failed

to die fast enough

Hitler created a

New Plan

Hitler’s New Plan

called for the

Systematic Killing

of All the Jews

GENOCIDE FINAL SOLUTION

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HITLER’S NAZI GERMANY

The Nazi’s Racial Purity

Included the Elimination

of all the following:

POLISH

RUSSIANS

GYPSIES

HOMOSEXUALS

INSANE

DISABLED

INCURABLE

Hitler’s Elite SS Police

Hunt down and Kill Jews

KILLING SQUADS

or DEATH SQUADS

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HITLER’S NAZI GERMANY

Jews capable of

working were placed

in Slave Labor Prisons

CONCENTRATION

CAMPS

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HITLER’S NAZI GERMANY Jews who were sick,

elderly, or troublesome

were placed in facilities with

gas chambers & crematoriums

EXTERMINATION

CAMPS

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HITLER’S NAZI GERMANY

The Nazi’s Largest and

Most Famous

Death Camp

AUSCHWITZ-

BIRKENAU

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IMPERIAL JAPAN

The Japanese Considered all

Surrendering Soldiers to be:

DISHONORABLE

The Japanese had complete

Contempt for all Allied:

PRISONERS OF WAR

In the Philippines, the Japanese forced Allied Prisoners to walk:

50 MILES to the POW Camp

Approximately

16,000 DIED

BATAAN

DEATH MARCH

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IMPERIAL JAPAN

Toward the end of the War

Tokyo issued a new policy

concerning Allied POW’s:

KILL ALL POLICY

The Japanese used easy

Methods to kill Allied POW’s:

BURNED ALIVE

or SHOT

RAID ON

CABANATUAN

In January 1945, U.S. Army Rangers

Completed the most successful mission to

free 522 Allied

Prisoners of War

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GERMAN

War Crimes Trials

22 Nazi War Criminals

were tried in this

German City

Nuremburg Trials

Three Key Leaders Committed

Suicide before being captured

Der

Fuhrer

Hitler’s

SS Chief

Heinrich Himmler

Hitler’s

Propagandist

Joseph Goebbels

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GERMAN

War Crimes Trials

Field Marshall

Hermann Goering Rudolph Hess

Three Key Leaders were given Death Sentences

Commander of

the Luftwaffe

(Hitler’s Primary

Field Commander)

Hitler’s Deputy

Commander

(Next in line to

the Fuhrer)

Slayer of the Poles

(Creator of the Nazi

Death Camps)

Hans Frank

Punishment: Hung & Cremated

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JAPANESE War Crimes Trials

23 Japanese War Criminals

were brought to trial in Tokyo by the

Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific Key Leader who was

Tried & Convicted

(Due to torture and

Murder of POW’s

and Civilians)

Premier Hideki Tojo

General

Douglas MacArthur

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JAPANESE War Crimes Trials

7 War Criminals were Condemned to Death

16 War Criminals were given Life in Prison

How were the condemned executed? HANGING

EMPEROR HIROHITO (SHOWA)

was not tried for war

crimes and continued

to serve as Japan’s

Emperor until 1989