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Nanking (The Silent Holocaust)

• The Japanese invade China

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Japanese begin their Invasion

• The fight between the Japanese and Chinese began
  with a battle in
• Summer 1937
• From here they started their trek towards Nanking
• In their wake they left destruction
• Killed people and animals
• Set fire to houses
• Violence against women

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The City of Nanking

• 225,000 Japanese troops advanced on Nanking
• Nanking fell to the Japanese on December 12, 1937
• Now the true horrors would begin

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The Horrors

• Murder
• Torture
• Arson and Looting
• Violence against women
• Murder for Entertainment
• Death Toll
• -approximation more than 300,000

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The Holocaust
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The Beginning

• Anti-Semitism the hatred of Jewish people
  demonstrated through the persecution
• German beliefs
• Germans were racial superior
• Jewish people were racial inferior
• Jewish people were not the only race targeted
  (Gypsies, Blacks, communists, disabled and
  homosexuals)

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The Holocaust

• The systematic persecution and execution of the
  Jewish people by the Nazis in World War Two
• Holocaust destruction, especially by fire
• 6 million Jewish people were murdered during this
  time (2 out of 3 in Europe, there used to be 9
  million Jewish people)

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The Camps

• Concentration
• Establish prior to the war to hold Jews,
  Communists, Gypsies and those who opposed Nazism
• Labor
• Forced to work for Nazis
• Many died of exhaustion or starvation
• Extermination
• The Final Solution
• First opened in 1941 Chelmo
• Jews were gassed and killed in various ways
• Auschwitz

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Discovery of the Camps

• Rumors about the heinous crimes of the Nazis were
  beginning to permeate the world
• No truly understood how bad they were until the
  concentration camps in Germany was liberated in
  1945
• The Red Army had found two smaller camps in 1944
  
• The Nazis attempted to hide the evidence by
  burning down the camps and abandoning the people
  who were still alive

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Oscar Schindler
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