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  • 1. Norway

    German Invasion of Norway ... . Jews in Norway There were approximately 2,100 Jews in Norway at the time of the German invasion ... Restrictions on Jews initially were sporadic, but with the German invasion of the ... deportation of Jews from Norway continued intermittently. Fortunately, many Jews received advance warnings of

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  • 2. Timeline of the German Military and the Nazi Regime

    Timeline of the German Military and the Nazi Regime

    Invasion of the Soviet Union German forces ... responsible for all crimes.  This myth of the German military

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  • 3. The Eastern Front: The German War against the Soviet Union

    The Eastern Front: The German War against the Soviet Union

    .  The German Invasion of the Soviet Union Hitler and his ... months after the start of the invasion, two million Soviet soldiers had died in German captivity ... .  Hitler saw the lands of the Soviet Union as the Germans’ destined ... and by nature enemies of the German “race.”  For

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  • 4. Vidkun Quisling

    Vidkun Quisling

    Weserübung, the invasion of Denmark and Norway. The German invasion of Norway ... .  There were approximately 2,100 Jews in Norway at the time of the German invasion. Among them were about ... since its founding in 1817. The King of Norway rewarded him by ... returned to Norway in 1929. He served as the Norwegian Minister of Defense between 1931 and 1933 as a

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  • 5. World War II: In Depth

    World War II: In Depth

    Poland's borders in April 1939. They responded to the German invasion of Poland by declaring war on ... Polish state. Invasion of Norway and Denmark The lull which followed the defeat of Poland ... occupation zones, with the Italians in the west and the Germans in the east. Invasion of the Soviet ... seeking redress for its defeat in the winter war of 1939–1940, joined the Axis and the German invasion. By

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  • 6. World War II in Europe

    World War II in Europe

    on September 28, 1939. The Polish army is defeated within weeks of the German invasion ... pushing more than 600 miles to the gates of Moscow. A second German offensive in 1942 brought German ... turning point. After the defeat at Stalingrad in winter of 1942-43, German troops began the long retreat ... guarantee of Poland's border, declare war on Germany on September 3, 1939. Warsaw surrenders to the Germans

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  • 7. Collaboration

    Collaboration

    of them died. Norway, Belgium, and the Netherlands After the German ... invasion of Norway in April 1940, Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian fascist ... officials were vital to implementing the German-initiated policy of deporting Jews resident in territories ... deported nearly 80% of the Slovak Jewish population in cooperation with the Germans during 1942

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  • 8. World War II Dates and Timeline

    World War II Dates and Timeline

    with the German invasion of Poland. When did WWII end in Europe? German armed forces ... Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack. Norway ... Peninsula. With German forces in North Africa having penetrated Egypt, Germany was at the height of its ... troops to defend against the invasion enables the Allies to move swiftly to the western border of Tunisia

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  • 9. Jewish Badge: During the Nazi Era

    Jewish Badge: During the Nazi Era

    ? In September 1939, following the German invasion of ... time between the German invasion and the mass killing of Jews throughout the Soviet Union ... invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, the Jewish badge was introduced ... -Moravia and the Warthegau (the German-annexed territory of western Poland). In German

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  • 10. 1940: Key Dates

    1940: Key Dates

    German invasion of the Soviet Union. ... . April 9German forces invade Norway and ... Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz I) outside the Polish city of Oswiecim, located in German-annexed ... the German city of Hamburg, an autonomous concentration camp. June 10

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  • 11. "Final Solution": In Depth

    "Final Solution": In Depth

    genocide of the Jews was the culmination of a decade of German policy under Nazi rule and the realization ... policies of persecution and segregation targeting German Jews focused on the goal of expulsion. After the ... Generalgouvernement (that part of German-occupied Poland not directly annexed to Germany, attached to German East ... commonly called the Warthegau (an area of western Poland directly annexed to the German Reich

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  • 12. Night and Fog Decree

    Night and Fog Decree

    activities intended to undermine the security of German troops. They were, upon capture, to be brought to ... concealed by fog and the darkness of night. During the summer of 1941, a large number of German ... troops withdrew from occupied France to participate in the invasion of the ... Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the German Armed Forces High Command, objected

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  • 13. The Biological State: Nazi Racial Hygiene, 1933–1939

    The Biological State: Nazi Racial Hygiene, 1933–1939

    Ernst Rüdin, a psychiatrist and early leader of the German racial hygiene movement. Individuals who were ... ligation, an invasive procedure that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of women. Views from Abroad ... emigration of tens of thousands of Austrian Jews. The Nazi-organized attacks on German and Austrian Jews and ... Third Reich, a politically extreme, antisemitic variation of eugenics determined the course of state

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  • 14. Julien Bryan

    Julien Bryan

    were fleeing the capital in the wake of the German invasion. Realizing ... during which he took film and hundreds of photographs of German people at work and at play, Hitler Youth ... US and consternation in Germany, as it clearly portrayed elements of Nazi German persecution and ... Introduction Julien Bryan hailed from Titusville, Pennsylvania, and was a graduate of

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  • 15. The Order Police

    The Order Police

    .  Various types of police units deployed alongside the German military. Among ... According to the Nazi leadership, the Police Battalions had performed well during the invasion of Poland ... Poland. There, they joined other German occupation forces in the Nazi regime’s persecution of Jews and ... Order Police executed Poles for even minor acts of resistance to the German occupation. There are

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  • 16. Poster Translations

    the “Enemy Within” Persecution of Jews escalated in Germany following the German invasion of Poland ... antisemitism became official government policy. There were Germans who firmly believed in the claim of Nazi ... Germans actively supported anti-Jewish policies that escalated from the social and economic isolation of ... the German occupiers, is a striking example of one of these occupied countries. Map: The map shows

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