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Chapter 6: Expansion & Systematization:

Exporting War & Terror, 1940-1941 [131-159]

“Big Picture” Questions:

1) How & why did the terror & suffering expand with the German campaigns of 1940-41?

2) How were Nazi policies of “race & space” put into practice with the invasion of the Soviet Union?

3) How & why was the line crossed to annihilation? Significance of the Wannsee Conference?

WAR IN THE NORTH & WEST [132-140]

( “Phoney War” or “Sitzkrieg” [1939-mid 1940]

How & why were these areas conquered by the Germans? How were Nazi policies enacted? [spring-summer 1940]

( conquest of Denmark & Norway [April-June]

( Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945)

( conquest of the Netherlands, Belgium, & Luxembourg

(bombing of Rotterdam [May 14]

( Anne Frank, Amsterdam [July ’42-August ‘44]

( conquest of France [May-June]

( evacuation of Dunkirk [late May-early June]

( entering Paris [June 22]

( occupied France: Vichy (Petain & Laval)

( Free French (DeGaulle)

( attacking Great Britain [Operation Sea-Lion]

( Battle of Britain [August –September]

( Kindertransport

( events on the periphery

( neutral nations: escape routes, rejecting refugees, profiteering

( Three-Power Pact [Tripartite Pact] (1940)

( Soviet occupation & invasion of Baltic states (Oct. ’39-June ‘40)

( Soviet invasion of Finland [Winter War] (Nov. ’39-March ’40)

WAR & ITS IMPACT INSIDE NAZI GERMANY [140-142]

( success in war breeds support at home ( “revolutionizing the revolution”

( exporting Nazi policies into conquered territories

Why did the war bring about conditions favorable to later genocide?

1) provided cover for mass murder

2) provided trained killers

3) trapped possible victims

4) propaganda attacks on civilians

ASSAULT ON THE BALKANS—YUGOSLAVIA & GREECE [142-144]

( why did the Nazis attack these countries?

( invasion of Yugoslavia ( air raid on Belgrade (April ’41)

( Yugoslav surrender & resistance (Tito)?

( Yugoslav partisans vs. German forces (Wehrmacht)

( conquest of Greece (April-May ’41)

GERMAN ASSAULT ON THE SOVIET UNION [145-158]

( invasion of USSR [Operation Barbarossa] ( “war of annihilation”

( “barbarization of warfare” ( 27 million dead

How & why did the German invasion of the USSR to contribute to the all-out murder of millions?

1) Lebensraum (“living space” to the east)

2) First Victims (Ukraine, Belorussia, Baltic states)

Why didn’t the German invasion turn out as planned?

How did Nazi leadership implement “race & space” in the USSR?

( Einsatzgruppen (“special action groups”)

( involving the locals (“divide & conquer”)

( Babi Yar, Ukraine (Sept. ’41)

( how many killed by Einsatzgruppen & how did they cooperated with Wehrmacht?

( Walther von Reichenau’s orders (Oct. ’41)

Were German soldiers forced or threatened to be killers?

How were Nazi policies implemented in Romania & the Killing Fields of Transnistria?

( Odessa (fall ’41 – Feb. ’42) [Ion Antonescu]

( Romanian policies & practices towards Jews & Gypsies

How did the Germans treat Soviet POWs?

( Statistics? How did they die? Why were they treated poorly?

( How did some POW camps become killing centers? [Zyklon B]

THE WANNSEE—STREAMLINING THE KILLING OPERATIONS [159]

( problems with mass shootings? (for the perpetrators)

( significance of this meeting (Jan. ‘42)? Who attended, what decisions, methods of killing? [The “Final Solution”]

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