Ch3 Flashcards

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What were factors affecting Emigration of Jews from Germany? Name atleast 4

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• pressure placed on the Jewish community in Germany
• the willingness of other countries to accept Jewish immigrants
• Jews in Germany- less than 1% of the country’s total population
• one-third of German Jews lived in Berlin;
• emigration of 38,000 Jews to of it to France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Czechoslovakia and Switzerland
• refugees were later caught by the Nazis in May 1940.
• Nazi-sponsored boycott of Jewish-owned stores
• Nuremberg Laws (1935) and Kristallnacht in November
• Jewish immigrants created a major refugee crisis


which led to Evian Conference - for 32 countries to accept additional refugees refugees were persecuted at home and unwanted abroad
• Kindertransport - Britain accepted Jewish children
• USA had quota of Jewish emigrants
• to the Americas, with the largest numbers entering Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Bolivia
• more than 18,000 Jews from the German Reich also found refuge in Shanghai, in Japanese-occupied China
• Jewish emigration was officially forbidden
• majority of Jews still in Germany were murdered in Nazi camps and ghettos

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What was Madagascar plan?

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Resettlement project for Jews made by Himmler
Solution to Jewish question
Did not work because of Brit navy

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Examples of violence against Jews?

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Progroms
Einsatzgruppen ordered to encourage progroms
1941-systematic and controlled massacres of Jews in soviet region
Made Jews want to leave Post war eu

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What was operation Barbarossa?

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22 june 1941 attack in USSR

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When was Wansee Conference?

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1942 jan they came up with final solution

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What did Christopher Browning Claim?

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Bazi policy was always conditioned by Hitler euphoria

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What did Alan farmer argue

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Argued “Wehrmacht and SS did what Hitler thought”Hitler was aware of the killings

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What did Einsatzgruppen do?
Name atleast 3?

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claimed they were given orders to kill
• helped by the local population to kill the local Jews in Balkan areas
• tasked to liquidate potential enemies
• massive Jewish population movement to Siberia
• Many historians agreed that the extensive Jewish killings did suggest the direction that Germany’s Jewish genocide would take
almost 500,000 were killed by July- Aug 1941
racial cleansing in mid-July 1941

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Effects of operation Barbarossa?

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Effects of Operation Barbarossa?
• Himmler wrote in his book record - ‘Minsk: attend execution’
‘If we don’t do it to them, they will do it to us’ - the justification for Nazi policies towards Jews


psychological effect and negative consequences of his policies on German soldiers
Nazis began a’more humane way’ of killing Jews - by poison gas
• Lithuanian ‘villagers watched out of curiosity and greed’
• In the Baltic states, around 80% of the killings were carried out by local volunteers

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Name few facts about Wansee conference?name atleast 3

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• The “Final Solution” was the codename for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of the European Jews
• “final solution to the Jewish question in Europe”
• policy of mass murder
• For Hilberg this order, born of Hitler’s elation at initial victory against the USSR, is the turning point, marking the start of the Final Solution
• Heydrich convened the Wannsee Conference:
* to inform and secure support from government ministries and other interested agencies relevant to the implementation of the “Final Solution”
* to disclose to the participants that Hitler himself had tasked Heydrich and the RSHA with coordinating the operation
• the role of Heydrich and Eichmann - the setting up of death camps to eradicate Europe’s Jews, gypsies etc.
• the aim of the Wannsee Conference was clear to its participants:
* to further the coordination of a policy aimed at the physical annihilation of the European Jews

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