I’m going to tell you something about the second world war. First I’ll tell you about the start of the war. Then I’ll tell you the facts of the holocaust. And at least I tell something about the battle of Britain and D-Day.
START OF THE WAR
No one wanted war. Yet, when Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, other European countries felt they had to act. The result was six long years of World War II
At the beginning of the German attack, Great Britain and France sent Adolf Hitler an ultimatum - either withdraw German forces from Poland or Great Britain and France would go to war against Germany.
On September 3, with Germany's forces penetrating deeper into Poland, Great Britain and France both declared war on Germany.
World War II had begun.
FACTS HOLOCAUST
What Does Holocaust Mean?
- The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and ended in 1945 when the Nazis were defeated by the Allied powers.
- The term "Holocaust," originally from the Greek word "holokauston" which means "sacrifice by fire,"
- The Nazis also persecuted Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the disabled for persecution.
- The Nazis used the term "the Final Solution" to refer to their plan to murder the Jewish people.
THE BIG NUMBERS
- It is estimated that 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. Six million of these were Jews.
- The Nazis killed probably two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe.
PERSECUTION BEGINS
- The Nuremberg Laws, issued in the year 1935, began to exclude Jews from public life. The Nuremberg Laws included a law that stripped German Jews of their citizenship and a law that prohibited marriages and sex between Jews and Germans.
- Nazis then issued additional anti-Jews laws over the next several years. For example, some of these laws excluded Jews from places like parks, fired them from civil service jobs and prevented Jewish doctors from working on anyone other than Jewish patients.
- After World War II started in 1939, the Nazis began ordering Jews to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing so that Jews could be easily recognized and targeted.
GHETTOS
- After the beginning of World War II, Nazis began also ordering all Jews to live within very specific areas of big cities, called ghettos.
- Jews were forced out of their homes and moved into smaller apartments, often shared with other families.
- Nazis would then order deportations from the ghettos. In some of the large ghettos, 1,000 people per day were loaded up in trains and sent to either a concentration camp or a death camp.
CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMPS
- Although many people refer to all Nazi camps as "concentration camps," there were actually a number of different kinds of camps, including concentration camps, extermination camps, labor camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and transit camps.
- After Kristallnacht in 1938, the persecution of Jews became more organized.
- Life within Nazi concentration camps was horrible. Prisoners were forced to do hard physical labor and yet given tiny rations. Prisoners slept three or more people per crowded wooden bunk. There wasn’t a mattress or a pillow.
- Prisoners transported to these extermination camps were told to undress to take a shower. Rather than a shower, the prisoners were herded into gas chambers and killed.
- Auschwitz was the largest concentration and extermination camp built. It is estimated that 1.1 million people were killed at Auschwitz.
BATTLE OF BRITIAN
The Battle of Britain was the intense air battle between the Germans and the British over Great Britain's airspace from July 1940 to May 1941, with the heaviest fighting from July to October 1940.
The Germans began their attack of Great Britain in July 1940. At first they targeted airfields, but soon switched to bombing general strategic targets, hoping to crush British morale. Unfortunately for the Germans, but the British morale stayed high and the reprieve given to British airfields gave the British Air Force the break it needed.
Although the Germans continued to bomb Great Britain for months, by October 1940 it was clear that the British had won and that the Germans were forced to indefinitely postpone their sea invasion. The Battle of Britain was a decisive victory for the British, which was the first time the Germans had faced defeat in World War II.
D-DAY
During World War II, the Allied powers planned to create a two-front war by continuing the Soviet Union's attack of Nazi-occupied lands from the east and by beginning a new invasion from the west.
In June 1944, the United States, the United Kingdom and many other western countries began the long-awaited attack from the west, the Normandy Invasion. June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, was the very first day of this massive amphibious invasion, which brought thousands of ships, tanks, planes, and troops across the English Channel.
It takes a long time before whole Europe was liberated. But at May the 5 of the year 1945 the Netherlands was liberated.
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