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Kings Unit 7

Thursday 12th November, 1938

Society

KRISTALLNATCH: THE HORROR FOR JEWS

Hitler and Goebbels found the proper pretext to start an offensive against the jews through a murder that occured in Paris. Actually, the Nazi Party has planned this night a long time ago.

Herschel Grynszpan

On the morning of the 9th of November, Ernst Eduard vom Rath, secretary of the German embassy in Paris, died after fighting for his life in the hospital because of seven gunshot wounds. Two days earlier, a Polish teenager of Jewish ascent named Herschel Grynszpan fired at him without any known political motive. This murder was spread in Germany by the nazis as a hate crime towards the Aryan race, even Hitler said: "All  jews are guilty of this murder". But the most of the people with whom we have spoken agree that Herschel committed the murder because of his parents's unfair ejection from Germany at the end of October. 

In a meeting with Goebbels, his propaganda minister, Hitler takes the reins of the reaction to the attack and decrees the beginning of the riot against the Jewish people.

The nazi's attacks began the early morning of the 9th and 10th November and we think that is the start of the nazisim  terror for jews: 7500 businesses, warehouses, bookstores, over 1300 Jewish synagogues, schools and hospitals burned to the hatred of a crowd led and directed by the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Schutzstaffel (SS) and the Hitler Youth, and supported by the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the Gestapo and other police forces.

One of the concentration camps

The Jews were expelled from the buildings and hundreds of them were attacked before an enraged society that responded to the success of Nazi propaganda.

The next morning, more than thirty thousand Germans were arrested for being Jews and began deportations to concentration camps like Arbeitsdorf, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen.

Burned synagogue

This is the testimony of one of the affected jews:

"Yesterday I saw the synagogue burn from the window of my house, when we were going to bed then some men came, took us out to the street, searched the house, took all the things from the cabinets and threw them on the floor; They took my father."

         

The executioners- Unit 7

16th May 1945

    THE NAZIS´ SECRET COMES TO LIGHT

THE HELL OF THE HOLOCAUST ENDS WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE ALLIES

In this terrible experience we have been able to talk with a jewish survivor who suffered the exterminated having been in the death camps. We asked him some questions, we warn you that the testimonies can be a bit unpleasant.

Q: We know that it is hard to remember the moment lived in the camps so thank you for having accepted our request. What camp have you stayed in?

Auswitch-Birkenau

A: I have been in Auswitch-Birkenau.

Q: How did you get there?

A: Firstly, I lived in Warsaw. Suddenly, one day the Nazi army entered into the city and started looting the houses and took us to places that we didn't know. The only thing I heard was screaming, wailing and shooting. Later, they placed us in large rows in which they classified us as animals. Already classified we had to walk to the train tracks and they were getting into animal vagons. At this point I was only with my older brother and I didn't know nothing about all my whole family. My travel was too eternal in which I hadn't notion time.
Q: What was your first impression of the camp?
A: My first impression was fear, because i didn't know what they were going to do me. Seeing the armed soldiers and treating us so despicably made me feel inferior.
Q: Sure it was horrible... How did they treat you in the camp?

Auswitch-Birkena

A: Our lifes for them had no value. We worked all day and we did not have any reward, on the contrary they decived the prisioners saying that they would have as a reward hot showers but no one returned. After a while we realized it were not showers, were slaughterhouse...
Q: What has been the worst you have seen?
A: See my brother die, tortured by the soldiers and then be hung by the arms of a mast while a herd of hungry dogs tore every part of his body until I felt like I was snatched.
Q: How did you feel when you were free?

A: Nowadays I can't believe that I no longer have to live nightmare. But as I saw how the Soviet army came in and killed the Nazi soldiers I felt happy but at the same time sad for having lost my whole family and don't know where to go. But I will never forget everything I've lived.

Q: Thank you for sharing this hard experience with us. You are very brave.

As you can see the camps were places of torture where almost nobody left alive.

 

  

The Dictators.

Hitler killed himself!

Last 30 of May Hitler commited suicide in his bunker with his wife.

After he realised he was going to be captured by the soviets who were crossing Berlin he decided to kill himself with his wife and part of his entourage. Because of the fear of been used like an humillating symbol for the Nazi party as Mussolini he ordered to burn his body.

Some of his officials confessed that he since the 22 of April was trough a nervous crisis when he realized the inminent defeat of the Nazi`s, the oficials also confessed that because of the crisis he started shouting the generals that they were betraying him. After that Hitler was in a bad psychologically condition. Then he expressed the intention to kill him self, and later he asked the doctor to recommend him a fast and painless way to die, his doctor recommend him to take cyanide pill and simultaneously a shoot in his head.

Some of his officials have related all the story since 28 April until his suicide.

The 28 April there was his emotional bankruptcy when he discover that Heinrich Himmler was trying to negociate a treaty of peace, he conisedered as an act of cobardy and betrayal, he considered and though that all his generals were againts him, he started to be so crazy. He started to think that the cyanide pills were false and he gave one to his doctor to prove it in his dog, Blondi, the dog died in a second.

After the midnight of 29 April he married in a little ceremony in the bunker with his girlfriend Eva Braun.

The last the 30 April in the morning he said bye to all the doctors, later he said all the steps they must do after he commited his suicide with his and wifes bodies. Later he had a silent luch with his secretaries, at the end he gave to each one a cyanide pill. At 15:30 he met with his wife in the map room and also with his helpers who closed the door and rest for about 15 minutes outside, when they entered the room they saw Hitler on the sofa with a strange grimace in his face, a shot in his head and a blood column over his face, his wife Eva Braun didn´t reach the point to shot his gun, the cyanide pill actuated and killed her faster than what she expected.


Heinz Linge made some declarations about the scene of the suicide, here there are his exact words:

"When I opened the door of his room, I found a scene that I will never forget: to the left of the sofa was Hitler, sitting and dead. Beside her, also dead, Eva Braun. On Hitler's right temple, a wound the size of a small coin could be seen, and two strands of blood ran down his cheek. A puddle of blood the size of a plate had formed on the carpet next to the sofa. The walls and couch were also spattered with spurts of blood. Hitler's right hand rested on his knee, palm facing up. The left hand hung limp. Next to Hitler's right foot, there was a gun of the Walther PPK caliber 7.65 mm type. Next to the left foot, another of the same model, but of caliber 6.35 mm. Hitler wore his gray military uniform and wore the gold badge of the Party, the Iron Cross of First Class and the medal of the wounded of the First World War; In addition, he was wearing a white shirt with a black tie, black pants, socks and black leather shoes."                  
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It isn't known where are the bodies actually, but is suposed by many people that they had been burned and hided somewhere, but it isn't a confirmed theory yet.

Is it the end of the hell?

 

     

          



                  

           

Group 5 - Sans Culottes - Nuclear attack against Japan

Saturday, 10th August 1945.

  Manhattan, New York, New York. 

THE BOMBS THAT HAS CHANGED THE WORLD

 Yesterday, the president of the American government Harry S. Truman communicated by means of the national radio the attacks against the Japanese nation. The attack involved two bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in the southwest of the Japanese archipelago, with two nuclear bombs.

The first bomb called Little Boy  composed of uranium, was launched against the city of Hiroshima, on Monday, the 6th. The bomb devastated the entire city and estimated the death of 100,000 people today, and 50,000 at the moment of the impact.

The second bomb, Julius Robert Oppenheimer ,.

These attacks were carried out as an attempt to end once and for all the World War, of which only the Japanese continued fighting against the Allies. We will continue to inform you of the consequences of the attack soon.

UNIT 7- GROUP 2

PARIS IS FREE!

LA NUEVE AND THE FRENCH SOLDIERS FREE PARIS FROM THE NAZIS

Three days ago, August 24th of 1944, the Ninth Division of the French Army, known as La Nueve, formed by exiled spanish soldiers, entered in the center of Paris at 21:22 through the Porte d'Italie. When they entered in the City Hall's square, the spanish tank "Ebro" shot agaisnt german troops. After that, french citizens came out to the streets singing The Marseillaise. The first liberators were spaniards, members of La Nueve. The leader of this squad, Raymond Dronne went to the commandancy of the german general Dietrich von Choltitz to ask for their surrender.

While waiting for the result of Dronne's operation, the spaniards took the Chamber of Deputies, the Majestic Hotel and the Harmony Square after having a loss. On 3:30 pm of August 25th, the German troops of Paris surrendered and the spanish troops took Von Choltitz, while other french units also entered the capital. American general Eisenhower also sent some of his troops to help the french.

Yesterday, August 26th, allied troops entered triumphant in Paris. The spaniards marched in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral and after that, they escorted Charles de Gaulle through the Champs Elysées. The spanish soldiers of the Leclerc Division marched with their Republican flags.

Thanks to the spanish troops, Paris was freed. Now, us, spaniards in exile are waiting for an allied intervention in Spain.

Even though Spain is neutral in the war, us, spanish republicans have helped the Allied powers, and there are some rumors that a squad known as the Blue Division, who serve the dictator Franco, still helped the Nazis after the battle of Stalingrad and some are still fighting in Berlin.

UNIT 7 - THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND DECOLONISATION

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We have visited Auschwitz...now we are going to study...

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