HIST 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Yalta Conference, Extermination Camp, Final Solution

• School: Auburn University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 1020
• Professor: Christopher Bishop

Document Summary

Auschwitz- large population, people live there long term and are put to work (labor camp) Only death camp that is still intact today. Part of it"s a labor camp, part is a death camp, experimentation on bodies was done as well (treat people with horrible medicines to see what would happen, infect them with diseases) Closest to germany and the biggest ~1 million people were killed total, about 12,000 per day. Once it was clear that germany would lose, they started destroying the camps (getting rid of the evidence) auschwitz is the only one left. On bombing raids, the british and americans see what is going on from the air. They considered bombing auschwitz, (cid:271)ut they did(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to kill the priso(cid:374)ers. Other camps are liberated by the british and americans. The cold war in the west- defining feature of world politics for the twentieth century. Origins of the cold war: world war ii.