20 Policies Towards The Jews, 1940-41 Flashcards
(11 cards)
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Blitzkrieg: key term
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- ‘lighting war’ tactic of most force, air attack and ground troops
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Operation Barbarossa June 1941
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- code name for USSR invasion, naked after medieval king who invaded a Russia
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Impact of invasion of USSR
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- 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
4
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Ghetto: key term
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- Controlled area of town for a racial group
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Key stats about Ghettos
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- 320k in Łódź
- 6 people per room
- 15 people per apartment
6
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How Jewish people overcame some problems of Ghettos
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- black market for food
- illegal services
- illegal schools
- “small ghettos” for richer Jews rather than “large ghetto” slightly increased conditions
7
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Key stats about the Warsaw Ghetto
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- 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
8
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Operation Rinehard 1942
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- deported people in Ghetto to Auschwitz
9
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Reasons for Einsatzgruppen
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- kill communist officials after beginning Operation Barbarossa
- Ethnic cleansing of Eastern Poland
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Structure of Einsatzgruppen
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- 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
11
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Stats about Einsatzgruppen
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- 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
