UNFORGIVABLE ACTIONS Japanese Wartime Atrocities and the Holocaust
UNFORGIVABLE ACTIONS Japanese Wartime Atrocities and the Holocaust
JAPANESE HORRORS
ALL THAT LEADS TO… Rape of Nanking Bataan Death March
Unit 731 § VIVISECTION – practice of performing operations on live humans for the purpose of scientific research § No anesthetics § Infection with disease § Frostbite testing § Forced pregnancy § Weapons testing
AMERICAN INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE AMERICANS 1942 – US War Department starts the policy of internment § Internment - Temporary holding of members of a specific group § Japanese families were sent to internment camps for the rest of the war § One room shacks with multiple families inside § Food shortages
GERMAN ATROCITIES
BEFORE THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS Nuremberg Laws Kristallnacht § First Nazi attack on the Jews
MANY JEWS WHO CAN LEAVE DO
ISOLATING THE JEWS All Jews left in Germany were forced into ghettos – segregated areas § Overcrowded, horrible living conditions, made of barbed wire and stone walls § Many Jews died from starvation or disease
THE FINAL SOLUTION - 1939 Einsatzgruppen - Killing Squads for “undesirables” § Inefficient § One reason to move to concentration and death camps
CONCENTRATION CAMPS Originally work camps to promote the success § “Undesirables” and political opponents sent there § Death by starvation § Doctors performed medical experiments on prisoners (Dachau) § Thousands died
DEATH CAMPS Wannsee Conference – Nazi leaders decide to carry out “Final Solution” § Final Solution – Systematic extermination of “undesirables” § Concentration camps turned into death camps Nazis forced prisoners into death chambers § Carbon monoxide or Zyklon B was pumped in 11 million killed
AUSCHWITZ 1. 1 -1. 6 million killed Buchenwald § Labor camp and medical experiment center
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