20 Policies Towards The Jews, 1940-41

Question 1

Blitzkrieg: key term

Answer 1

• ‘lighting war’ tactic of most force, air attack and ground troops

Question 2

Operation Barbarossa June 1941

Answer 2

• code name for USSR invasion, naked after medieval king who invaded a Russia

Question 3

Impact of invasion of USSR

Answer 3

• opened up lebensraum
• showed ‘racial war’ rather than war on Western a Front
• 3 Million Soviet Germans added
• Goering ordered killing of Communist commissioners and Jewish sympahtises

Question 4

Ghetto: key term

Answer 4

• Controlled area of town for a racial group

Question 5

Key stats about Ghettos

Answer 5

• 320k in Łódź
• 6 people per room
• 15 people per apartment

Question 6

How Jewish people overcame some problems of Ghettos

Answer 6

• black market for food
• illegal services
• illegal schools
• “small ghettos” for richer Jews rather than “large ghetto” slightly increased conditions

Question 7

Key stats about the Warsaw Ghetto

Answer 7

• 400k Jews + many gypsies
• German’s in Poland had around 2300 calories per day, Jews in Ghettos had 300 per day
• 100k deaths 1940-41

Question 8

Operation Rinehard 1942

Answer 8

• deported people in Ghetto to Auschwitz

Question 9

Reasons for Einsatzgruppen

Answer 9

• kill communist officials after beginning Operation Barbarossa
• Ethnic cleansing of Eastern Poland

Question 10

Structure of Einsatzgruppen

Answer 10

• 4 groups of 600 men behind first wave of invasion of SU
• Special group A followed by groups B,C and D
• support from police reserves

Question 11

Stats about Einsatzgruppen

Answer 11

• 500k killed June to July 1941
• 40k men recruited to kill Jews and Communists
• In Baltic States, special groups A shot 250k Jews in 1941, special group B 40k