DEVELOPMENT OF ANTI-SEMITIC POLICIES Flashcards
HOW MANY Jewish people had left Germany and Austria 1933-39?
Over half from each country. This would have been due to emigration and murders of Jewish people in the Holocaust.
WHEN were Jewish people banned from emigrating in Nazi Germany?
October 1941
HOW MANY Jewish people left Germany in 1933?
37,000
HOW MANY Jewish people voluntarily left Germany between 1933 and 1938?
A total of 150,000
WHAT were some problems with voluntary emigration of Jewish people in Nazi Germany?
- The Nazis encouraged emigration, but also confiscated Jewish people’s assets (meaning they had less money to do so)
- Many Jewish Germans (particularly the older generation) felt thoroughly German and wanted to stay, believing that Nazi anti-Semitism would pass.
WHAT types of people could more easily emigrate?
Those who had family in another country, or had an easily transferable job.
WHAT does ‘Judenfrei’ mean?
‘Jew-free.’ The Nazi plan to have no Jewish people living in Germany.
WHAT was the Central Office for Jewish Emigration?
An Nazi organisation which was set up in Austria after Anschluss which forced Jewish Austrians to emigrate. Applicants had to pay for the right to emigrate and the organisation illegally seized Jewish property to fund the emigration of poorer people.
WHAT was the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany?
A Nazi organisation created by the SD which amalgamated all Jewish organisations. All organisational difficulties had to be dealt with by Jewish people themselves.
WHAT was the Madagascar Plan?
A Nazi plan to send 4 million Jewish people to Madagascar (under French control, and now German as Germany had defeated France) to live in harsh conditions in ghettos.
WHAT do different historians argue the significance of the Madgascar Plan is?
- Some say it is proof that the Nazis had not always intended for the extermination of all Jewish people
- Others argue that it proves the opposite: that the Nazis had always intended to send Jewish people to die somewhere far away
WHEN was the Evian Conference?
July 1938
WHAT was the Evian Conference?
- A conference called by US President Roosevelt to discuss the ‘refugee crisis’
- 32 delegations
- Only the Dominican Republic agreed to take more refugees.
HOW did the UK and US deal with Jewish emigration from Nazi-controlled countries?
- A US bill to accept more German children in 1939 and 1940 never made it to Congress
- British government limited emigration to Palestine (under British control)
WHEN did the Nazis invade Poland?
1939
HOW was Poland structured after 1939?
It was split into three parts:
1. The Western parts (incorporated into the German Reich)
2. The Eastern parts (occupied by the USSR)
3. The in-between area, named the ‘General Government’
WHAT was the ‘General Government’?
The in-between area of Poland, not incorporated into the German Reich, but occupied by the Nazis. It became a dumping ground for Jewish people deported from the Reich and most death camps built in the 1940s were located in this area.
