HIST-H 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Antisemitism, Double V Campaign, Final Solution
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Efforts at integration film negro soldiers" shown to all recruits. Tuskegee airmen, deployed 1943/ escort bombers over germany. America fights the war with key allies: england and russia. Agreement is that concentration will be to defeat hitler and germany first and then all will turn attention to japan. Us fights both japan and germany at the same time but anticipating ussr help in. Much tension among leaders: fdr, churchill, stalin. Churchill distrusts stalin, keeps fdr from giving him info on a-bomb development. But fdr gives him much aid because the more the russians fight in east he feels it reduces american casualties in west. Us, british, canadians land in normandy, france. Begin push toward germany from west/ russians coming from east. Russians suffer some 1. 1 million, dead and wounded. Us does not reach camps in germany until april, 1945. Some 1. 1 million died at auschwitz/ 90% were jews. Trolleys used to carry bodies to over after people were gassed.
