WWII

WWII

Punishment after the war

1) Crime against peace 2) crimes against humanity 3) war crimes

AltémNuremberg Trials: International Military Tribunal - 12 Nazi leaders were sentenced to death

July, 1945. Conference in Potsdam

Stalin, Henry Truman (USA), Clement Attlee (GB)

resistance movement/ partisans

resistance fights against Germans

operated in German occupied countrie as irregular military forcess

ignoring the international rules connecting to prisoners of war

massacres: Katyn, Japan, in the USA: interment camps for Japanese

Hinterland

famine, rationing

Bombardment

Atombombs: Hiroshima - 6th August, 1945; Nagasaki - 9th August, 1945

bunkers = shelters

Altéma

1st aerial battle in England: Luftwaffe and RAF

Budapest was bombarded by the Allies after the German occupation

cities were bombarded - Dresden was destroyed within 24 hours;

instead of trenc warfare fast-moving fronts

reason: mechanisation, technological advances (flattops, aeroplanes, tanks)