KEY EVENTS AND BATTLES IN EUROPE

KEY EVENTS AND BATTLES IN EUROPE

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Entrance to Auschwitz:Work Makes You FreeHorrors of the Holocaust Exposed

THE FINAL SOLUTIONThe Final Solution a policy of genocide that involved the deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population.rested on the belief that Aryans were superior people and that the purity of the Master Race must be preserved

THE FINAL STAGEDachau, gas chamber

The Germans used poison gas to more quickly exterminate the Jewish populationEach camp had huge gas chambers that could kill as many as 12,000 per day

IMAGES FROM A NIGHTMARE

Some of these images are disturbing

The main entrance of Auschwitz Extermination Camp, with its infamous motto "Work Makes One Free"

Prisoners in nearby woods just before their execution. (1933)

Jewish women, some are holding infants as they are forced to wait in a line before their execution by Germans and Ukrainian collaborators.

Over 2 million children were killed during the Holocaust

A German policeman shoots individual Jewish women who remain alive in the ravine after the mass execution. (1942)

Children subjected to medical experiments in Auschwitz

A truckload of bodies at Buchenwald concentration camp

At Dachau concentration camp, two U.S. soldiers gaze at Jews who died on board a death train

A Nazi about to shoot the last Jew left alive in Vinica, Ukraine.

Survivors on the day of liberationHitler wanted to wipe out Stalingrad a major industrial centerIn the summer of 1942, the Germans took the offensive in the southern Soviet UnionBy the winter of 1943, the Allies began to see victories on land as well as seaThe first great turning point was the Battle of Stalingrad

Battle of Stalingrad was a huge Allied victory BATTLE OF STALINGRAD, RUSSIATough cold winters killed many NAZI troops in USSR.

19Russian people are tough! 21 million dead, yet no surrenderInvasion of Normandy, France:Operation overlord (D-DAY)

20D-DAY JUNE 6, 1944

D-Day was the largest land-sea-air operation in military history

D-Day was an amphibious landing soldiers going from sea to landOpened a second Major FRONT against GERMANY

Within a month, the Allies had landed 1 million troops, 567,000 tons of supplies and 170,000 vehicles

21Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945The Fhrers Bunker

Cyanide & PistolsMr. & Mrs. Hitler

Germany surrenders 1945

23V-E Day (May 8, 1945)