World War II: A Geographer's Delight

1. Geography played a large role in World War 2. The concentration camps and ghettos were already strategically located in barren wastelands. Germany was centered between many different European powers which gave them easy access to the places they wanted to fight, but also gave its enemies an easier chance to attack them. Germany controlled many areas throughout Europe, but obviously it wasn't enough since they lost the war.
Also in the liberation maps, each country liberated the camps that were closest to where they were fighting. Russia to the east, and England to the west. The USA, who were from far away helped out with camps all over europe.
2. A museum can be considered a memorial or monument because there are many historical artifacts at museums that remember the achievements, or in this case the tragedies of history. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum remembers all the people who were killed and how big of a tragedy it truly was. There is an american bias on the maps that I saw. In the liberation maps, it only briefly mentioned all the camps Russia helped with, but went in depth of all the camps that the USA helped. While the number was almost the same, the time that they talked about the USA was far more than the time it talked about Russia or England.