“Big Picture” Questions:1) How & why did Germany invade & conquer Poland?2) What did they do after the conquest of Poland to enact Nazi policies? (“divide

& conquer”)3) How & why was the Euthanasia Program enacted within Germany to enact

Nazi racial policies?

Chapter 5: Experiments in Brutality, 1939-1940: War against Poland & the So-called Euthanasia Program [101-129]

Wehrmacht parade in Warsaw (Oct. 5, 1939)

Poland disappears from the map of Europe

Jewish Emigration from Germany (1933-1938)

Country Jewish Emigration

United States 102,000

Argentina63,500

South Africa 26,100

Shanghai, China20,000

Australia8,600

Brazil8,000

Bolivia 7,000

Canada6,000

Cuba 3,000

United Kingdom 52,200

France30,000

Netherlands 30,000

Poland25,000

Belgium12,000

Yugoslavia 7,000

Switzerland 7,000

Italy 5,000

Country Jewish Emigration

Portugal10,000

Palestine33,390

Jewish emigration from Germany (pre-1933 boundaries)

Year Jews leaving (estimated)

193337,000

193423,000

193521,000

193625,000

193723,000

193840,000

193978,000

194015,000

1941 8,000

19428,500

Year Jewish immigration (U.S.)

1933-4 4,100

1934-5 4,800

1935-6 6,200

1936-7 11,300

1937-8 19,700

1938-9 43,400

1939-40 36,900

1940-1 23,700

1941-2 10,600

Everybody’s Hitler (1940)

How his enemies… …slandered Hitler

"Terror is everywhere, the people are being tortured!" — Hitler's enemies claimed that and spread pictures like this.

This is how the terror in Germany really looks!

At night Frau Keppelmeier turns her dial,And listens in on London.She sits there listening to lies,Happily being led astray.

Nazi poster in Austria (late 1941)

Churchill says to Stalin, as they drive a locomotive named Roosevelt: "Well, Stalin, if noise were power, this wouldn't be such a bad locomotive.".

Fliegende Blätter (1942)

“Big Picture” Questions:1) How & why did the terror & suffering expand

with the German campaigns of 1940-41?2) How were Nazi policies of “race & space”

put into practice with the invasion of the Soviet Union?

3) How & why was the line crossed to annihilation? Wannsee Conference?

Chapter 6: Expansion & Systematization:Exporting War & Terror, 1940-1941 [131-159]

Einsatzgruppen A (Lithuiania)

Einsatzgruppen D (Vinnitsa, Ukraine) 1942