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Pop Quiz. RAISING YOUR HAND, Describe what fighting was like during WWI. What made it this way?. Fast Forward. . . . to WWII. What is different about this war? . Same deadly technologies from WWI + New, even deadlier, even more brutal weapons + HATRED, ANGER, RACISM =

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  1. Pop Quiz RAISING YOUR HAND, Describe what fighting was like during WWI. What made it this way?

  2. Fast Forward. . . to WWII. What is different about this war?

  3. Same deadly technologies from WWI + New, even deadlier, even more brutal weapons + HATRED, ANGER, RACISM = Unimaginable atrocities committed by ALL

  4. Today's Agenda Two Exterminations: The Rape of Nanking & The Holocaust

  5. The Rape of Nanking (December, 1937)

  6. Background • Japan invades China • Territorial expansion • View of Chinese • Prince Asaka: loot and rape what you want • “Battle” of Nanking (Dec. 9)

  7. Mopping Up • Japan's view of surrender/retreat • Extermination • “The killing contest”

  8. The Rape • Gang rape • Elderly, young girls • Genital mutilation • Forced incest • Religious devotees (monks)

  9. “The seventh and last person in the first row was a pregnant woman. The soldier thought he might as well rape her before killing her, so he pulled her out of the group to a spot about ten meters away. As he was trying to rape her, the woman resisted fiercely ... The soldier abruptly stabbed her in the belly with a bayonet. She gave a final scream as her intestines spilled out. Then the soldier stabbed the fetus, with its umbilical cord clearly visible, and tossed it aside.”

  10. City Destroyed

  11. The 10,000 Corpse Ditch

  12. Bayonetted

  13. Beheaded

  14. Shot

  15. Numbers • 57,000 POWs killed • 20,000 women raped • 200,000-300,000 killed in 6 weeks

  16. My question for YOU: How come EVERYBODY learns about the Holocaust, but few learn about the Nanking Massacre?

  17. The Holocaust: “The Final Solution” (1938-1945)

  18. Process of Removal

  19. Step 1: Identify “German” A. Nuremburg Laws (1935) 1. Germans have no Jewish blood in three generations a. The mitchling (the mixed) – anyone with a Jewish connection in three generations

  20. Step 2: Deny rights A. Nuremburg Laws (continued) 1. Stripped of citizenship 2. Banned from professional affiliations 3. Overall exclusion

  21. Step 3: Educate and Ostracize A. Massive campaign 1. Educate Germans in anti-Semitic ways 2. Cast Jews out from society

  22. Step 4: Sterilization & Infanticide A. Eliminate all parasitic, degenerate entities 1. Mentally retarded 2. Disabled * 6,000 babies killed

  23. Step 5: Lebensraum A. Create space for German super-state in the East 1. 60,000 Jews still remained in Germany 2. Millions of Jews in Poland/USSR What to do, what to do. . .

  24. Step 6: The Final Solution A. Wannsee Conference 1. 16 German officials meet to figure out what to do 2. Meet for 90 minutes 3. Draw up lists of undesirables 4. Decide to put Jews in ghettos a. Use able-bodied ones for labor, kill the rest

  25. Hitler's Models: Manuel Weyler & (drum roll……..) The United States Government

  26. Result: Concentration Camps! - Buchenwald - Dachau - Amersfoot - Auschwitz & 15,000 others

  27. Rounded up and shipped off

  28. Starved, Worked to the bone

  29. Tortured

  30. Tested

  31. . . . and tested

  32. Gassed

  33. Cremated

  34. . . . or thrown in a large hole

  35. Some tidbits. . . • ID numbers • Disinfected – like animals • Break down the mind – DON'T THINK Dehumanization!

  36. In all, 6 million killed

  37. Final Comments • The nature of this war

  38. Your Assignment • RAFT – 1 page • Role: witness to one of the events • Audience: a news reporter • Format: Letter explaining what you've seen • Task: Relay your story so it goes public and will convince people to help

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