Operation Blog is ACTIVE

OK students...this is the platform upon which students will share their knowledge and understanding of the great marker event of 20th century world history: World War 2. The rules are simple:

1. All students must make at least one post to this blog. Posts are in the form of reflections, opinions, links to articles, video, music, images, etc. Students must relate the nature of their posts to a theme of the conflict and make commentary.

2. All students must make at least one comment on another students post. Comments must be thoughtful, argumentative if inclined, insightful, or you my pose some question leads to another post by you or another classmate.

3. You must tag your post with the applicable theme(s).

4. Grades will be based on an holistic scoring scale which heavily weights the frequency and substance of posts and comments. Minimum participation equates to minimum scores for this class exercise.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Holocaust


The most important part of the Holocaust began on January 30, 1933 when Hilter became Chancellor. Shorty in February 1933, there was a big fire at the Reichstag (German Parliament building), without any proof set by an arsonist but possibly set by the Nazis, which gave the Nazis the advantage to secure total powers for Hitler. (note that Hitler was Chancellor that time, not president). Hitler’s boss, President von Hindenburg, an honest and aged World War I German hero, completely disliked Hilter but couldn’t try to prevent him at this stage of the very near end of his life.

Hilter became president and kept the Chancellor position also after von Hindenburg dies. The approval of Hitler’s total powers was put to the German people’s approval by 90%.

The Holocaust actions continued dring 1935-1937. Jews were banned from serving in the military(which they had proudly served in WWI). One event that occurred in 1936 also took pressure off Jew citizens temporarily. In March 1938 Austria fell into Nazi camp as they were forced into a union with Germnay.

1939 was a very active year for the Nazis as they tried to take over Czechoslovakia and started WWII by conquering Poland which contained over 3 million Jews(the largest Jewish population of all country in Europe). It was also a active year in the Holocaust as ill-treatment of the Jews were speeded up.

The WWII holocaust with its curel act against the jews, was one of the most terrible events in the history of mankind. Over 6,000,000 people died in the Holocaust.

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