Unforgivable actions
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UNFORGIVABLE ACTIONS
Japanese
Wartime
Atrocities and
the Holocaust
JAPANESE HORRORS
BUSHIDO
Code of the Warrior
Dishonorable to suffer the
humiliation of surrender
Fight to the death or kill
yourself
If not, you are less than
human and deserve no
mercy
JAPANESE WAY OF THINKING
Uchi – Inside
Everything you are responsible
for
Family and country
Soto – Outside
Everything for which you have
no responsibility
Foreigners
Racism – the Aryans of Asia
similar to German racial ideas
EMPEROR WORSHIP
Die for the emperor if
required of you
ALL THAT LEADS
TO…
Rape of Nanking
Dec 1937 – Feb 1938
300,000 civilians killed
after violent scenes of
rape and torture
Bataan Death March
Forced march of American
and Filipino POWS
16,000 of 67,000 dead in
3 days
Unit 731
Bio-warfare experimentation
10,000 dead in trials, 200,000
Chinese killed with results
VIVISECTION – the practice of
performing operations on live
animals fro the purpose of
experimentation or scientific
research
Comfort Women
200,000 Koreans raped dozens
of times a day
JAPANESE ATROCITIES
GERMAN ATROCITIES
EUGENICS
Eu- - well, genes – born
Aryan myth
From Social Darwinism
DIVISIONS OF RACE TO HITLER
Aryan (Germanic) – Culture creating
Middle (Non-German) – Culture Maintaining
Jews – Culture Destroying
Untermenschen (subhuman) – undesirable
elements that need to be eliminated
Gypsies =
, Jehovah Witnesses = ,
Homosexuals = , those deemed “work shy”
= , Habitual Criminals = , Political
Prisoners =
ARYANISM ON DISPLAY
1935 – German Max Schmeling
beats Joe Louis in boxing
Hitler vindicated
1936 – Cleveland’s Jesse Owens
shatters Olympic records at Berlin
games
1933 – BOYCOTT OF
JEWISH GOODS
Hitler now in power
blames the Jews for
the loss of WWI,
Treaty of Versailles,
and the Depressions
Organizes Boycott of
Jewish goods
NUREMBURG LAWS - 1935
Jews lose
citizenship,
can’t get
education,
medical care,
have phones, or
marry non-Jews
Forced to wear
Star of David
KRISTALLNACHT – 7 NOVEMBER 1938
Herschel Grynszpan
shoots Ernst Vom Rath
Nazis blow up event,
encourage popular
uprisings
1,500 synagogues and
7,000 businesses
destroyed
100s dead, 30,000
arrested
MANY JEWS WHO CAN LEAVE
THE RESPONSE OF DEMOCRACIES
Many hurting from the
Depression and restrict
Jewish immigration from
Europe
Jews who cannot leave
are the victims of the
dictators
Picture: Jewish child
dying in Warsaw ghetto
THE FINAL SOLUTION - 1939
Einsatzgruppen Killing
Squads
Emotionally difficult
after a time for the
killers and inefficient
One of the reasons the
Germans will move
toward ghettos,
concentration camps,
and death camps
ANOTHER MISTAKE BY HITLER
Many in Soviet Union originally greet Hitler as liberator
from
Einsatzgruppen cause Soviets to resist more and support
Stalin
DEATH CAMPS – 1941
Kill mass quantities in gas chambers using Zyklon –
B gas
GAS CHAMBER
AUSCHWITZ
1.1-1.6 million
killed
Buchenwald
Labor camp and
medical
experiment
center
WHO DIED?
6,000,000 Jews
6,000,000 Others
Homosexuals
Gypsies
Communists
Catholics
Slavs
Mentally and physically
handicapped
NAZI DEATH CAMPS
“The memory of starved, dazed men, who dropped their eyes and
heads when we looked at them through the chain -link fence, in the
same manner that a beaten, mistreated dog would cringe, leaves
feelings that cannot be described and will never be forgotten. The
impact of seeing those people behind that fence left me saying,
only to myself, ‘Now I know why I’m here.’”
– Richard Winters