8.5 Flashcards
The Nazi New Order
- when hitler was first winning, propagandists had a image of an europe based on EQUAL chances for nations and INTEGRATED economic community (hehe… not true!)
- hitler REALLY wanted ONLY german to organize europe /ARYAN RACE
- the empire stretched fromt eh english channel to moscow
- the empire was NOT EFFICIENTLY organized/governed
- depending on the race, you were treated different (aryan = civil administrations, other = military …)
Aryan Race
- the land that hitler wanted germans to live in were occupied by SLAVIC people
- so he order HIMMLER to evacuate the slavs and replace them with germans in POLAND
- after invading SOVIET UNION, hitler wanted non-aryans to be slaves and germans settle and germanize them
- all together hitler wanted to create a ARYAN RACE, and would do ANYTHING
Himmler
- believer of nazi racial ideology
- was ordered to evacuate the slavs and replace them with germans in POLAND
- and after invading SOVIET UNION, hitler ordered him to make non-aryans to be slaves and germans settle and germanize them
Economic Exploitation in Germany
- the nazi’s took many of the european’s resources, leaving them with almost nothing
- they adopted LEGAL FORMALITIES, but they were still ruthless
Use of the Foreign Workers in Germany
- there were labor shortages, so they used foreign workers
- this was counterproductive because it caused chaos and disrupted production and made people hate germany even more
Resistance Movements in Nazi-occupied europe
- charles de gaulle (london)
- some fought against the germans like Josip Broz
- in the soviet union, communists assumed leadership roles in underground resistance movements
- WOMEN also joined resistance movements
charles de gaulle
- led a resistance movement in LONDON
- he created governments-in-exile
Josip Broz
- led a resistance movement in yugoslavia
- he had an partisan army
Resistance in Germany
- The white rose movement
- most didn’t work, but one did which was the colonel count claus von stauffenberg
White Rose movement
- an resistance movement in GERMANY
- students
- they distributed pamphlets that denounced the nazi regime
- didn’t work
Colonel Count
- led a resistance movement in GERMANY
- an group of military officers planted a bomb in the headquaters
- didn’t kill hitler
Early Nazi Policy towards Jews
- they wanted jews to emigrate out of germany
- but! hitler gave some warnings about the future of european jewry
- when the war began, they were thinking of putting into place the Madagascar Plan
- however with the uncertainty of the war, they chose a new plan, the final solution
The Madagascar Plan
- this was an EARLY nazi policy towards jews
- they wanted to ship jews to madagascar
The Final solution
- this was the annihilation of the jewish people
- after poland was defeated the einsatzgruppen were to round up the polish jews and put them ghettos
- then in 1941, they were kill them
The Einsatzgruppen
- they were part of the final solution
- after poland was defeated the einsatzgruppen were to round up the polish jews and put them ghettos
- then in 1941, they were kill them
Death Camps
- people thought the einsatzgruppen was inadequate
- so they started death camps
- they would put jews on freight trains and ship them to POLAND
- they would use gas to kill them
- the wannsee conference was held. it outlined the steps to solve the jewish question
Wannsee conference
- it outlined the steps to solve the jewish question
- he said jews would be brought group by group into ghettos and transported from there farther to the east
Other Holocaust
- gypsies of europe
- slavic people
- poles, ukrainians, belorussians
- soviets
- homosexuals
The New Order in Asia
- the japanese wanted to use its new possessions to meet its needs for raw materials and outlet for japanese manufactured goods
- they said that the governments would be independent and under japanese protection
- BUT! the real power was in the military authorities and the materials from the countries were used for the military
- the japanese didn’t treat the lives of their subject peoples well (nanjing china, comfort women, using them to build railway)
Nanjing China
- japanese soldiers looting, killing, and raping
- example of the japanese not treating the lives of their subject peoples well
Comfort women
-korean women were prostitutes for japanese troops
Factors that contributed to the holocaust
- jews were an small minority
- hitler’s propaganda convinced german’s that jews were a inferior race that should be eliminated
- hitler’s secret police successfully stifled dissent
- nazis successfully secured collaborators in occupied territories
