War and Remembrance
Outline:
A. After the euthanasia campaign is ended, SS doctors are assigned in the East. Mass murder begins in death camps.
B. Evolving Nazi policy regarding the Jews:
1. expulsion, “Entfernung.” With closing of borders due to World War II
2. concentration.
3. The Final Solution, “Entlösung.”
C. At the Wannsee Conference, Heydrich systematizes the Final Solution.
D. The death toll:
Germany: of 300,000 in 1930’s, 150,000 killed
Norway: of 200,000, 100,000 lost
Belgium: of 40,000, 40,000 lost
Vichy France: of 200,000, 50,000 lost
Netherlands: of 140,000, 100,000 lost
Yugoslavia: of 75,000, 63,000 lost
Greece: of 74,000, 60,000 lost
Rumania: of 800,000, 400,000 lost
Italy: of 50,000, 10,000 lost
Denmark: of 6,000, 48 lost
Hungary: of 400,000, 300,000 lost
Poland: of 3,300,000, 3,000,000 lost
USSR: of 3,000,000, 1, 000,000 lost