INEVITABILITY????

Could WWII have been prevented???

1.Hitler’s theses on ‘race’:

• a. All areas of German-speaking people belonged to Germany.

• b. Master race-Aryans-should rule the world.

• c. Inferior race of Slavs and Russians serve as slaves.

• d. Jews should be exterminated.

2. March of 1933, Hitler legally became chancellor of Germany-became dictator.

• a. Nazis (political party) took control of government, education and professions.

• b. All other political parties were banned, leaders imprisoned.

• c. A one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses took place.

3. Hitler then began to implement his plan to rule the world, but 1st step was ethnic cleansing starting with the Nuremberg Race Laws in 1935.

a. Anyone of the Jewish faith lost citizenship, the right to marry outside the faith or to have an Aryan work in a Jewish home.

4. The Nazis settled on defining a "full Jew" as a person with three Jewish grandparents.

(Those with fewer were designated as Mischlinge of two degrees: first degree - two Jewish grandparents; second degree - one Jewish grandparent.)

5. Even people with Jewish grandparents who had converted to Christianity were defined as Jews. (Their ID’s were stamped with the red letter ’J’.)

6. Beginning in 1937 Jews lost their jobs & their businesses. Medicines were difficult to obtain as chemists would not sell to Jews.

7. In some parts of the country Jews were banned from public parks, swimming pools and public transport; curfews were in place.

8. On buses, trains and park benches, Jews had to sit on seats marked for them.

9. All Jewish-owned businesses were marked with a yellow Star of David; non-Jewish businesses displayed signs that forbade Jews to enter.

10. November 9-10,1938 Kristallnacht occurred throughout Germany-over 7,500 Jewish shops were destroyed and 400 synagogues were burned. Ninety-one Jews were killed and an estimated 20,000 were sent to concentration camps.

11. Jews who could pay a fine were allowed to leave Germany; everyone else was stuck.

12. Poland after September 1, 1939 Jews had to wear the Star of David on their right arms; in 1941, all Jews in Germany were forced to do the same.

• ( Children at schools were taught anti-Semitic ideas consistently. Jewish school children were openly ridiculed by teachers and the bullying of Jews in the playground by other pupils went unpunished. If the Jewish children responded by not wanting to go to school it was said that they were too lazy to go.)

(“Was there any form of filth or crime...without at least one Jew involved in it. If you cut even cautiously into such a sore, you find like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light - a Jew.“)

("His is no master people; he is an exploiter: the Jews are a people of robbers. He has never founded any civilisation, though he has destroyed civilisations by the hundred...everything he has stolen. Foreign people, foreign workmen build him his temples, it is foreigners who create and work for him, it is foreigners who shed their blood for him." )

• Speech given in Munich in July 1922.

("The Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on end.......spying on the unsuspicious German girl he plans to seduce..........He wants to contaminate her blood and remove her from the bosom of her own people. The Jew hates the white race and wants to lower its cultural level so that the Jews might dominate.“) Mein Kampf (1923-24)

HITLER MOVES ON

1. In reaction to Germany’s annexation of the rest of Czechoslovakia (1939) Britain pledged its support to Poland in March of 1939; France followed.

2. On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland; September 17, the Soviet Union followed from the east.

3. On September 3, Britain and France declared war on Germany.

Invasion of Poland

OUR TURN IS COMING

1. Some believe that as early as January, 1941 the U.S. had information that Japan would attack somewhere in the Pacific, probably the Philippines.

2. 2. The Japanese fleet set sail for Pearl Harbor on November 26, 1941. In total 353 aircraft conducted the attack on December 7, 1941.

2.However, in America 110,000 Japanese-Americans , 2/3’s of whom were American citizens, were rounded up on the west coast and forced to go to concentration camps. They lost all properties