THE HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTSWHAT ARE THEY?

THE “PLAN”

• My Hero stories—read aloud• WWYD segments—watch• Response writings to the above and quotes

WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO YOU

• PLEASE COMPLETE PAGE 11 IN THE HANDOUT PACKET• THESE PACKETS WILL NEED TO TRAVEL WITH YOU TO ENGLISH AND

LITERATURE.

WORLD WAR II

WHAT DO YOU ALREADY KNOW?

• MAKE A LIST OF EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT WORLD WAR II.

• DATES, PEOPLE, PLACES, EVENTS, ETC.

WW II--HISTORYWHY ARE THESE DATES

SIGNIFICANT?• DECEMBER 7, 1941• JUNE 6, 1944• DECEMBER 16, 1944 TO JANUARY 1945• MAY 1945• JUNE 1945

WHY ARE THESE TERMS/PLACES SIGNIFICANT?

• MINIDOKA AND MANZANAR• HOLOCAUST• GHETTO• CONCENTRATION CAMP/

INTERNMENT CAMP/ EXTERMINATION CAMP

I CRY OUT WITH ALL MY HEART AGAINST SILENCE—ELLIE WIESEL

AN OBVIOUS EXAMPLEIN MODERN HISTORY, THERE IS ONE TIME, ONE HORRID MOMENT WHEN ALL HUMANITY SEEMED TO DISAPPEAR.

WORLD WAR IIDURING THIS TIME, ADOLPH HITLER, THE LEADER OF GERMANY’S NAZI PARTY, CONVINCED MANY THAT THE

PROBLEMS OF HIS COUNTRY…AND EVEN THE WORLD….WERE CAUSED BY JEWS.

HITLER SET OUT TO RID THE EARTH OF THE JEWISH POPULATION. FIRST, HE HAD TO CONVINCE OTHERS

THAT HE WAS RIGHT. HE DID SO BY USING PROPOGANDA.

DURING THE FOLLOWING SLIDES, TAKE GOOD NOTES. YOUR NOTES WILL OFTEN BE USED FOR A

GRADE.

TIMELINE OF WWII• GERMANS AND SOVIETS SIGN A

PACT TO NOT INVADE EACH OTHER.• SEPTEMBER 1, 1939—GERMAN

FORCES INVADE POLAND• SEPTEMBER 3, 1939—BRITAIN

AND FRANCE DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY• SEPTEMBER 28, 1939—POLISH

ARMY SURRENDERS TO THE GERMANS

• APRIL 9, 1940—NORWAY AND DENMARK ATTACKED BY GERMAN FORCES• DENMARK IS OCCUPIED IN ONE DAY • MAY 10, 1940—NETHERLANDS,

BELGIUM, AND LUXEMBOURG INVADED• JUNE 10, 1940—NORWAY

SURRENDERS

TIMELINE PART 2• MAY 10, 1940—GERMANS INVADE

WESTERN EUROPE… LUXEMBOURG, FRANCE

• JUNE 10, 1940, ITALY JOINS GERMANY

• JUNE 22, 1940—FRANCE SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH GERMANY WHICH PROVIDED FOR GERMAN OCCUPATION OF THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTRY, AND A GOVERNMENT SEAT IN THE SOUTH.

• JULY 10, 1940-OCTOBER 31, 1940—BATTLE OF BRITAIN, AN INTENSE AIR WAR OVER ENGLAND

• 1941—GERMAN FORCES INVADE YUGOSLAVIA AND GREECE—GERMANY WAS SUPPORTED BY ITS ALLIES (ITALY, BULGARIA, HUNGARY, AND ROMANIA)

• JUNE 22, 1941—GERMANS ATTACK THE SOVIET UNION.

• IN DECEMBER OF 1941, THE SOVIET UNION LAUNCHES A COUTEROFFENSIVE, FORCING THE GERMANS TO RETREAT

TIMELINE PART 3• DECEMBER 7, 1941—JAPAN BOMBS

PEARL HARBOR . THE UNITED STATES DECLARES WAR ON JAPAN

• DECEMBER 11, 1941—GERMANY AND ITALY DECLARE WAR ON THE U.S.

• MAY 1942—ENGLAND BOMBS KOLN, GERMANY—TAKING THE WAR TO THEM.

• MAY 1943—AXIS POWERS SURRENDER IN AFRICA.

• SEPTEMBER 8, 1943—ITALY GETS NEW LEADERSHIP AND SURRENDERS TO THE ALLIES

TIMELINE 4—D DAY• JUNE 6, 1944—D-DAY—

ALLIED FORCES LAND IN FRANCE…ON THE BEACHES OF NORMANDY. MORE THAN 150,000 ALLIED SOLDIERS LAND.

• AUGUST 25, 1944—ALLIES ENTER PARIS…MOST OF FRANCE LIBERATED BY THE END OF AUGUST

• SEPTEMBER 11, 1944—US TROOPS CROSS INTO GERMANY

TIMELINE—PART 5• DECEMBER 1944—GERMAN FORCES

ATTACK THROUGH THE ARDENNES FOREST IN BELGIUM IN AN ATTEMPT TO DIVIDE AND DESTROY ALLIED FORCES. ALLIES FORCE THEM INTO A RETREAT—KNOWN AS THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE

• JANUARY 1945– POLAND LIBERATED.• FEBRUARY 1945—ALLIES BOMB

DRESDEN KILLING 35,000 CIVILIANS.• MARCH 7, 1945—AMERICANS CROSS

THE RHINE RIVER • APRIL 30, 1945—AS SOVIET FORCES

NEAR HIS COMMAND BUNKER IN BERLIN, ADOLF HITLER COMMITTS SUICIDE.

• MAY 7, 1945—GERMAN FORCES SURRENDER IN THE WEST,

• AND IN THE EAST ON MAY 9, 1945. THIS DATE IS KNOWN AS V-E DAY

• JUNE 1945—EUROPEAN WAR OFFICIALLY OVER

• AUGUST 1945—WAR IN THE PACIFIC ENDS SOON AFTER THE U.S. DROPS ATOMIC BOMBS ON THE JAPANESE CITIES OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKE, KILLING 120,000 CIVILIANS

• SEPTEMBER 2, 1945—JAPAN SURRENDERS.

ANTISEMITISM• DEFINED: PREJUDICE

AGAINST OR HATRED OF JEWS.

• THE HOLOCAUST, A STATE-SPONSORED PERSECUTION AND MURDER OF EUROPEAN JEWS BY NAZI GERMANY AND THEIR COLLABORATORS BETWEEN 1933 AND 1945 IS HISTORY’S MOST EXTREME EXAMPLE OF ANTISEMITISM.

JEWS ARE NOT WANTED HERE. 1936

HOW EARLY DID IT START FOR HITLER AND HIS FOLLOWERS?

• IN 1933, THE NAZI PARTY ORDERED ANTI-JEWISH BOYCOTTS, STAGED BOOK BURNINGS, AND PASSED ANTI-JEW LAWS.

• THE NUREMBERG LAWS DEFINED JEWS BY “BLOOD” AND ORDERED TOTAL SEPERATION OF JEWS AND NON-JEWS—ARYANS.

• USED TO DECIDE WHO WAS A JEW.

• THIS LEGALIZED RACIAL PREJUDICE

KRISTALLNACHT• NOVEMBER 9, 1938—

KRISTALLNACHT POGROM, OR NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS

• THIS NIGHT MARKED THE MOVE TO DESTRUCTION AND VIOLENCE

• JEWISH BUSINESSES WERE DESTROYED BY VANDALISM AND FIRE.

• MANY JEWS WERE PULLED INTO THE STREETS AND BEATEN

PROPOGANDAInformation, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause

or point of view.

PROPOGANDA HAS A POWERFUL

EFFECT…LADDERS AND

PYRAMIDSHITLER ESTABLISHED A REICH MINISTRY

OF PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT AND PROPOGANDA HEADED BY JOSEPH

GOEBBELS.

TO ENSURE THAT THE NAZI MESSAGE WAS SUCCESSFULLY COMMUNICATED

THROUGH ART, MUSIC, THEATER, FILMS, BOOKS, RADIO, EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, AND THE PRESS.

GERMAN CHILDREN READING “DER GIFTPILZ” OR “THE POISONOUS

MUSHROOM”

HOW IT WORKS

• PROPOGANDA WAS DESIGNED TO ENCOURAGE PASSIVITY AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE MEASURES AGAINST JEWS.

• LEADERS DECIPTED THE NAZI GOVERNMENT AS STEPPING IN AND RESORING ORDER—PROTECTING THE GERMAN PEOPLE FROM AN EVIL ELEMENT.

• THEY PAINTED A TERRIFYING PICTURE OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE ALLIES WON THE WAR.

“THE POSONOUS MUSHROOM

• INSIDE THE BOOK, THE COMPARISON TO THE MUSHROOM IS EXPLAINED WHEN A MOTHER TELLS HER CHILD: “JUST AS IT IS DIFFICULT TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN A POISONOUS MUSHROOM AND AN EDIBLE MUSHROOM, IT IS DIFFICULT TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN A GOOD JEW AND A LYING, THIEVING JEW.

CHILDREN TAUGHT EARLY

• CHILDREN WERE TAUGHT IN SCHOOL HOW TO “IDENTIFY” THE EVIL JEWS.

• THE NOSE WAS SAID TO BE SHAPED LIKE A “6”

• COMPARISONS WERE THEN MADE TO THE LEGENDARY ASSOCIATION OF THE NUMBER “6” TO SATAN.

CHILDREN WERE ENCOURAGED TO FEAR THE JEWS

• THE CAPTION WITH THIS PICTURE READS: “HERE MY LITTLE ONE, YOU GET SOMETHING VERY SWEET, BUT AS A REWARD YOU BOTH MUST COME WITH ME.”• THE PICTURE PORTRAYS AN

ELDERLY JEW TRYING TO POISON OR TRICK SMALL CHILDREN BY USING CANDY.

FILM AS PROPOGANDA

• IMPORTANT IN GETTING INFORMATION OUT TO A LARGE GROUP.• SHOWED THE SUPERIORITY OF

GERMAN MILITARY POWER• SHOWED THE EVIL OF THE

ENEMIES OF GERMAN• PORTRAYED JEWS AS SUBHUMAN

CREATURES

• “THE TRIUMPH OF THE WILL”, PRODUCED IN 1935 GLORIFIED HITLER AND NATIONAL PRIDE.• THEY ALSO FOCUSED ON THE

SUCCESS OF GERMANS IN THE 1936 BERLIN OLYMPICS.

MORE MOVIES

• “THE ETERNAL JEW” PORTRAYED JEWS AS WANDERING CULTURAL PARASITES CONSUMED BY MONEY. • JEWS WERE

PORTRAYED AS RAT-LIKE CREATURES EVEN IN THE ADVERTISING POSTER.

NEWSPAPERS• NEWSPAPERS PRINTED

CARTOONS SHOWING JEWS IN UNFAVORABLE LIGHT.• DER STURMER (THE

ATTACKER) WAS ONE OF THE WORST.• THEIR GOAL WAS TO SHOW

THAT JEWS WERE NOT ONLY SUBHUMAN, BUT ALSO DANGEROUS ENEMIES OF THE GERMAN REICH.

YOU MUST BE THE CHANGE YOU

WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD—

MAHATMA GANDHI

PROPAGANDA—IS BIASED MATERIAL CREATED TO INFLUENCE EMOTIONS

PROPAGANDISTS LOVE SHORT CUTS—THEY STIR UP EMOTIONS, USE INSECURITITES, THEY BEND THE

RULES OF LOGIC. THEY USE FEAR, NAME CALLING, PHOTO MANIPULATION, DEMONIZING OTHERS…PROPAGANDA IS USED TO INFLUENCE HUMAN

BEHAVIOR. PROPAGANDA CAN BE SO SUBTLE THAT WE HARDLY

NOTICE IT. PROPAGANDA CAN MAKE US FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD

AGREE TO “BELONG”IT MAY BE AS OBVIOUS AS A SWASTIKA OR AS SUBLE

AS A JOKE.

• I HAVE LEARNED THAT COURAGE WAS NOT THE ABSENCE OF FEAR, BUT THE TRIUMPH OVER IT. THE BRAVE MAN IS NOT HE WHO DOES NOT FEEL AFRAID, BUT HE WHO CONQUESRS THAT FEAR. –NELSON MANDELA

NOT ALL PROPAGANDA IS NEGATIVE. PROPAGANDA IS A PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUE USED BY

ADVERTISERS, POLITICIANS, AND OTHERS. YOU ARE EXPOSED TO PROPAGANDA ALMOST DAILY.

THE KEY IS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT PROPAGANDA IS ACCEPTABLE AND WHAT IS NOT.

WEAPONS DO NOT FIRE ON THEIR OWN. THOSE WHO HAVE LOST HOPE

FIRE THEM. –DR. OSCAR ARIAS SANCHEZ, PRESIDENT, COSTA RICA.

THIS POSTER IS FOR A MOVIE CALLED “THE ETERNAL JEW’. THE IMAGES ARE MEANT TO MAKE THE JEWISH

PEOPLE LOOK EVIL. IN THE MOVIE ITSELF, THE JEWS ARE COMPARED TO RATS. THE SHAPE OF THEIR NOSES WERE

SUPPOSED TO BE BECAUSE OF THEIR CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE RAT.

WHEN JEWS WERE BEING SHIPPED OFF, IT WAS EASIER IF THEIR NEIGHBORS COULD JUSTIFY IT AS GETTING THE NEIGHBORHOOD CLEANED OF THE RAT POPULATION.

WHEN WE TELL JOKES, OR SUPPORT MUSIC OR MOVIES THAT DEHUMANIZE OTHERS…OTHER RACES, RELIGIONS,

GENDERS, ETC…WE ARE SUPPORTING THIS KIND OF PROPAGANDA.

JEWS ARE OUR MISFORTUNE…AND HOW JEWS CHEAT.

HITLER AND THE NAZI PARTY ARE FAR FROM THE ONLY PEOPLE TO

EVER USE PROPAGANDA IN A NEGATIVE WAY.

INTERESTINGLY, EVEN THE UNITED STATES HAS USED IT. I MENTION THE NAZI PARTY

SPECIFICALLY, BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO BE DISCUSSING THEIR TREATMENT OF JEWS LATER THIS

QUARTER.

IS THIS PROPOGANDA?

WHY?WHY NOT?

 DEFINITION: the spreading of ideas,

information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a

cause, or a person