HIST 3801 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Denazification, Public Health Insurance Option, Italian Empire
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Soviet union/ ussr): 22 june 1941 enter into the war invaded by germany (molotov-ribbentrop 1939, japan 1941) France: 3 sep 1939 after the invasion of poland (munich 1938, vichy/de gaulle) Kill without pity or mercy, all men, women, and children of polish decent or language. Only in this way we can obtain the living space (lebensraum) we need. a. hitler, 22nd august. To exterminate as many as possible jewish citizens. To obtain the lebesnsraum not a policy in western europe, practically burning everything at the end of the world when all of the retreating armies destroyed everything that was left behind. This could explain or justify different attitudes before the war and after the war more nuance attitudes by those occupied directly by the germans - the french population. Numbers could vary, different statistic on the approach taken but the correlation would basically remain the same. Britain - 357,000 with its population it is quite a loss.