adult Jewish males‚ they would be able to acclimate themselves to mass executions without the shock of killing women‚ young children‚ and the infirm. According to Alfred Filbert‚ the commander of Einsatzkommando 9‚ the [execution] order from [Reinhard] Heydrich "quite clearly" "included also women and children." Yet‚ "in the first instance‚ without a doubt‚ the executions were limited generally to Jewish males." By generally keeping units’ initial massacres to smallish numbers (by German standards)
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Honors Global The Einsatzgruppen were a highly effective group of mass murderers‚ who had a particularly strong negative bias towards the Jews. The Einsatzgruppen was a German killing squad organized by Reinhard Heydrich. They consisted of several thousand men‚ divided into units of 800 to 1200. They were mainly composed by Schutzstaffel (SS‚) and personal police. The Schutzstaffel was established by Hitler to serve as his personal guard at
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“One important member of Einsatzgruppen‚ Hans Friedrich‚ said that he had ‘no empathy for any of the Jews he had killed’.”(ww2history.com) Although Adolph Hitler was the leader of all Nazis‚ he left the Einsatzgruppen under the command of General Reinhard
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Held on January 20th‚ 1942 in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee * 15 men gathered to discuss the “Final Solution” * The conference was held by an SS officer named Reinhard Heydrich * The purpose of the conference was to inform administrative leaders of departments responsible for various policies relating to Jews. * Heydrich proposed the deportation of Jews from Europe and North Africa to the east. * By the end of the conference‚ it was concluded that Jews would be annihilated Final
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Holocaust Timeline 1933-1946 The beginning- 1933: Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. A Chancellor is a leader or head official of a country 1933: Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near the city of Munich. 1934: German President Von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Fuhrer (leader). As he was next in line… 1935: Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed (went into effect) German Jews deprived of citizenship. Jews were not allowed to marry Aryan Germans. 1936: Olympic Games begin in
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The early 20th century is known for its systematic deflation of the traditional rules of Western art. Artists of this era overthrew long held conventions in a series of movements‚ all arising before 1920. For example Cubists created new styles of composition in painting as well as sculpture. Fauvists and Expressionists attacked traditional notions of pictorial representations through brushwork and bright colors. This is referred to as the style of abstraction. Abstract Expressionists attempted
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Hannah Brooks Mr. Turner World History II 27 November 2012 The Holocaust The Holocaust is one of the worst scenarios of genocide ever known to the world. The Jewish people of Europe were terrorized and slaughtered over a period that lasted nearly two and half years. During that time‚ nearly eleven million people were killed‚ including six million Jews. Even though the actual mass killings of the Jews lasted about two and a half years‚ the planning of this genocide started many years earlier
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driving force behind the obsessive and fanatical Nazi persecution and ultimately also the mass slaughter of the Jews and various other groups‚ though the details of implementation were left to the terror apparatus‚ headed by Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich. The rise of the Nazis is the main cause of the Holocaust. According to Kimel‚ the Nazis took advantage of the bad state of Germany‚ at the time in order to take control of the country. After World War I‚ German pride was hurt by the Versailles
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size and technologically superior to those found in the Aktion Reinhard camps. New methods of extermination also became practiced at Auschwitz. Zyklon-B‚ a poisonous gas made up of Prussic acid and originally used for pest control‚ was used in place of carbon monoxide to exterminate Jews. Zyklon-B was manufactured by the German corporation Tesch and Stabenow and originally tested on Russian POWs. Unlike the camps of Aktion Reinhard‚ where victims’ corpses were buried in surrounding meadows‚ Auschwitz
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high- ranking Nazis officials and German leaders gathered together with the purpose of coordinating and implementing the “The Final Solution” where Nazis would try to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe. This meeting was convened by Reinhard Heydrich‚ who was SS (a parliamentary organization under the direction of Hitler) chief Heinrich Himmler’s head deputy (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). 2. Final Solution (to the Jewish question): The Final Solution (to the Jewish question)
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