Chapter 5 (3rd) Flashcards
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In January 1942, What were those who attended the Wannsee Conference informed about?
They were informed about the plan to kill all the Jewish people left in Europe
What was the plan to kill all the Jewish people left in Europe known as? and by using what?
This plan was known as Final Solution, using poison gas or shooting.
What does the term persecution mean
The unfair or cruel treatment of someone over a long period because of their race, religion or political beliefs.
What is the persecution of Jewish people called?
antisemitism
What have Jewish people been blamed for?
Jewish people have been blamed for the death of Jesus Christ and the outbreak of the Black Death.
Since Middle Ages, what was the false antisemitic belief about Jews?
Christian culture associated Jews with wealth and power.
How were Jews often treated as in Europe?
Jews were often treated as outsiders and had few civil rights.
In late 1800s, What did writer Wilhelm Marr write about Jews?
Writer Wilhelm Marr wrote that he thought Jews would soon illegally take control of all Germany’s highest political positions.
Who was the first person to use the term antisemitism?
Wilhelm Marr
In Russia during the late 1800s, false documents were published that told of a secret Jewish plot to take over the world.
Is this true or false?
True
When Hitler rose to power in the early 1930s, what did he do to Jews for Germany’s problems?
Hitler made Jews convenient scapegoats for Germany’s problems. He introduced laws and rules that made the lives of Jewish people very difficult.
State the laws that were designed to make life more and more difficult for German Jews
-All Jews banned from any sports club
-All Jewish lawyers, judges and teachers sacked
-Race studies introduced in German schools
-soldiers stand outside all Jewish shops turning people away
-Jews not allowed to vote
-marriages between Jews and non-Jew banned
-No Jew allowed to own electrical equipment
-Jewish children banned from German schools
-Jews can be evicted from home for no reason
What is the term synagogues
the building where a Jewish assembly for religious worship and instruction
In some countries, what were the Jews forced to?
Jews were forced to live in separate areas in major cities or sent to work in labour camps.
Many Jewish people had left Germany before the outbreak of the war, to escape persecution. But how did they find themselves back under Nazi rule?
Germany invaded the countries they fled to during the war.
What does the term ghetto mean?
A small,restricted area of a town where Jews were forced to live by the Nazis.
What happened to the Jews that were forced to live in ghettos and work at labour camps?
Jews died in ghettos of disease and many died in the labour camps.
What did the Nazi Execution squads do to Jews?
Execution squads went out into the countryside to hunt down as many Jewish people as they could find.
What were the local police given the job of to do to Jews?
Local police were given the job of finding Jews and shooting them.
What led to the Nazis to begin working on plans for what they call ‘a final solution to the Jewish question’?
The destruction of Europe’s Jews was not happening quickly enough.
What did the NAzi leaders discuss about at the Wannsee Conference?
Nazi leaders discussed about how to murder Europe’s Jews
What type of camps were specially built by Nazi leaders for murdering Jews?
Six large extermination camps to transport Jews to them.
What were the extermination camps also known as?
death camps
How did the Jewish people fight back when the Nazis tried to destroy Jewish life and culture.
Jews had secret schools,theatres and places of worship were set up in some ghettos.
Some Jews violently rebelled against the Germans.
