Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany

Bitz Language Arts March 24 Chelmno Concentration Camp The first concentration camp was established on December 7,1941 and that’s when the first victims of the extermination were killed. The Chelmno concentration camp killed all the Jews in the area besides in Lodz. Knowing where and when it was made, and what its purpose was, and how it affected Jews and others in it, can allow us to better understand the Chelmno death camp. The Chelmno concentration camp was made in Chelmno which was roughly

destroyed Germany, and areas of Austria and Czechoslovakia. SA and Hitler Youth units throughout Germany and the annexed areas, destructed any Jewish-owned businesses, houses, synagogues, cemeteries, hospitals, and schools. Kristallnacht, a very important event in time, should be included and displayed in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Ever since 1933, German Jews were subjected to repressive policies, ever since Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. Before Kristallnacht, Nazi policies

largest of its kind established by the Nazi regime. It included three main camps. All three camps used prisoners for forced labor. One of them also functioned for an extended period as a killing center. The camps were located approximately 37 miles west of Krakow. They were near the prewar German-Polish border in Upper Silesia, an area that Nazi Germany annexed in 1939 after invading and conquering Poland. The SS authorities established three main camps near the Polish city of Oswiecim: Auschwitz I in

assassinated by a jewish boy. Two days later on November 9th, 1938 Nazi mobs torched or vandalized hundreds of synagogues throughout Germany and damaged, if not completely destroyed, thousands of Jewish owned property. The result of Kristallnacht left 267 synagogues destroyed, around 100 jewish men murdered, and 30,000 sent to concentration camps. Kristallnacht was a night where Nazi mobs attacked and terrorized Jews all over Germany and was part of Hitler's plan to remove Jews from public life. On

The Invasion of Poland (1939): • Germany had lost land to Poland under the Treaty of Versailles. • Many German-speaking people lived in areas that were now part of Poland. • Germany viewed Poles as subhuman and wanted their land for lebensraum. • The Nazi-Soviet Pact ensured Russia would not stop Germany’s invasion of Poland. • Hitler thought Britain and France would not keep their promise to defend Poland. • On 1 September 1939 Hitler ordered the German army to invaded Poland. • Britain

innovations developed until the advent of World War two, Nazi Germany would possess a devastating brainchild that would eventually grow into the Shock and Awe technique of combat that we see today.2 The execution of the invasion hailed the Germans with the overall victory they sought, however their technique of the experiment were far from calibrated. The invading German army received heavy and unanticipated losses from Polish defenders, even though Polish defense lines fell within two days of initial

Throughout history, there have been many Heroes in the catholic faith. Whether they be mortars,saints, or popes. For my knights of columbus essay I have picked Maximilian Kolbe. St Maximilian Kolbe was born Raymond Kolbe on January 8,1894 in Poland ( part of the Russian empire). Much of his life was strongly influenced By his version of the Virgin Mary he had when he was 12. One year after his vision Raymond and his brother joined the Franciscans and he was given his religious name Maximilian.

Slide 1: Auschwitz concentration camp was a chain of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in southern Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It was originally created to serve as a detention centre for political prisoners, but it evolved into a network of camps consisting of Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II–Birkenau, Auschwitz III–Monowitz, and 45 sub camps. Slide 2: The total death count at the three main Auschwitz camps was

On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, which marked the beginning of the World War II. The Soviet Union isolated Poland due to the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact which was signed a few days before the war . Poland, thus isolated, was defeated by Nazi Germany. In 1944, the Polish underground resistance planned a rebellion against Nazi forces which leads to the Warsaw Uprising. However, the Warsaw uprising was failed due to lack of outside support. The two sources to be evaluated are

Even though Germany had already annexed the Sudetenland and Austria, this was the last straw because France and Britain had guaranteed Poland’s borders. If they had lost them, France and Britain’s credibility would almost be depleted and the rest would lie with their homeland ("Invasion of Poland"). Germany had invaded Poland on September 1st but Poland was very reluctant to go to war and was even willing to forget the invasion if Germany had retreated by September 3rd ("Why Germany invaded"). Naturally