Truth About Camps | Institute of National Remembrance Revisiting The Horrors Of The Holocaust This segment was originally broadcast on Dec. 17, 2006. It was updated on June 21, 2007. For the first time, secrets of the Nazi Holocaust that have been hidden away for more than 60 years are finally being made available to the public. We're not talking about a missing filing cabinet - we're talking about thousands of filing cabinets, holding 50 million pages. It's Hitler's secret archive. The Nazis were famous for record keeping but what 60 Minutes found ran from the bizarre to the horrifying. As correspondent Scott Pelley reports, the documents were taken to a town in the middle of Germany, called Bad Arolsen, where they were sorted, filed and locked way, never to be seen by the public until now. The storerooms are immense: 16 miles of shelves holding the stories of 17 million victims – not only Jews, but slave laborers, political prisoners and homosexuals. Pelley walked through the evidence with chief archivist Udo Jost. But most of the names here are of unknown people. "Yes.
History - World War Two: Summary Outline of Key Events WWII History: World War II for Kids World War II was fought between the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) and the Allied Powers (Britain, United States, Soviet Union, France). Most of the countries in the world were involved in some way. It was the deadliest war in all of human history with around 70 million people killed. When was it? World War II started in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Where was it? World War II started in Europe, but spread throughout the world. Learn More Check out these pages to learn about the events, battles, and people of World War II: Go here to test your knowledge with a World War II crossword puzzle or word search. For reference and further reading: The Good Fight: How World War II was Won by Stephen E.
World War Two (WW2) Homework for Kids For almost six years from 1939 to 1945 Britain fought the toughest war it had ever experienced. World War II was total war - every person, every business, every service was involved. Britain did not fight alone, the war also involved many countries. World War II involved 61 countries with 1.7 billion people, three quaters of the world's population. Fifty million people lost their lives and hundreds of millions people were injured. In 1918, Germany lost World War One. In 1933 the German people voted for a leader named Adolf Hitler, who led a political party in Germany called the National Socialists or Nazis. Shortly before 5am on Friday 1st September, 1939, German forces stormed the Polish frontier. World War Two in Europe began on 3rd September 1939, when the Prime Minister of Britain, Neville Chamberlain, declared war on Germany. Click to hear Chamberlain's speech The Second World War was started by Germany in an unprovoked attack on Poland. Countries What countries fought on which side?
Primary History - World War 2 Perks of Being a Wallflower - Literature; Discussion Questions: 1. There are many life-lessons in this story. Describe one. [The following two questions should be asked together] 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. For 18 additional Discussion Questions, see the Supplemental Materials for this Guide. Assignments and Assessments: Any of the discussion questions set out above or in the Supplemental Materials for this Guide can serve as essay prompts. 1. The first day of high school (or at any new school);Eating alone in the school cafeteria when you (or the subject of the narrative) had no one to sit with;The first kiss;The first date;The first party;Taking a risk to strike up a friendship (or at least a conversation) and meeting with either acceptance or rejection; and any important incident in your life that you feel relates in some way to the story told by the movie. 2. 3. See also Additional Assignments for Use With any Film that is a Work of Fiction.