Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany

Joachim von Ribbentrop, was an agreement officially titled the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union[1] and signed in Moscow in the late hours of 23 August 1939.[2] It was a non-aggression pact under which the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany each pledged to remain neutral in the event that either nation were attacked by a third party. It remained in effect until 22 June 1941, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union. In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included

people died in (Chelmno: 156,000–172,000) Chelmno was the first killing facility to begin operations, in December 1941. It was located in the Reich province Wartheland, which encompassed a part of Poland annexed to Germany. At Chelmno, a former aristocratic manor house served as the reception area. Members of a special detachment of SS and police subordinate to the Higher SS and Police Leader for Wartheland guarded the facility and killed people in trucks, in which the exhaust pipes had been reconfigured

The holocaust was a racist event that killed millions of Jews. The group of people that murdered all these people were called the Nazis. There leader was Adolf Hitler who blamed Germany’s problems on the Jews. The main method of killing was gassing. Gassing vans were used because carbon monoxide was projected into inside of van (holocaust-education.dk, ushmm.org). Zyklon B is used in pest control, but also in the holocaust, because it turns to a deadly gas when exposed to air (google.com). Gassing

the failure of Appeasement, also played starring roles. The biggest influence was the rise of the Nazi Party and German expansion, as it caused the most conflict between Germany and the Allies. The extent to which the Great Depression contributed to World War Two was that it caused economic distress which led to the rise to power of new governments, in particular the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany. After the armistice that ended World War One in 1918, many countries were willing to do anything

Molotov–Ribbentrop pact, named after the Soviet secretary of state Vyacheslav Molotov and also the German secretary of state Joachim von Ribbentrop, formally the treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and additionally called the Ribbentrop–Molotov pact or Nazi–Soviet pact, was a non-aggression treaty signed in Moscow within the late hours of twenty three August 1939. The pact 's publicly declared intentions were a guarantee of non-belligerence by every

According to the Cambridge dictionary a ghetto is: “an area of a city, especially a very poor area, where people of a particular race or religion live closely together and apart from other people”. However the term "ghetto" originates from the name of the Jewish quarter of Venice, created in 1516, so we can say that the ghettos of Jews during World War II are not a new idea of the Nazis, since ghettos of Jews exist since the Middle Ages. During the Second World War, the ghettos were isolated neighborhoods

Before World War Two, Germany terminated the agreement of keeping a friendly relationship with Poland, and they attacked Poland with Russia because so that they can divide the lands and the resources. Russia was just next to Poland, so it was easy for strong Germany to attack Russia. Germany has first betrayed Russia, so Russia needed to attend the World War Two before Germany attacked them first. Besides, at that time Russia was short of money, so they need to expand their power and get more lands

1918, a terminate-fire went into validity for each combatants. The war might had ended, the results, however, are still evident in today’s world. The social order, cultural, and political views of the world was significantly altered in countless areas, even beyond the places specifically included in the World War I aftermath. New terrains were created, old ones were

the World War II and in German-occupied locations, for example The Boy in Striped Pajamas takes places in Poland in a house near the Auswitchz concentration camp (was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II.) , mean while The Diary of a Young Girl takes place in Holland, inside a secret annex. Anne is a thirteen teenage girl and Bruno is a nine-year-old boy. Both of them

The Holocaust was the persecution and the murder of six million Jews by Hitler, the nazi party and its collaborators. The meaning of the word holocaust is "sacrifice by fire." During the holocaust the government was the Nazi party. The Nazis, who came to power in Germany, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. Germans thought the Roma's (gypsies), homosexuals, and the disabled people were