History 2

Question 1

who were the ‘undesirables’/ ‘unworthy of life’ to the nazis

Answer 1

• Jews
• Gypsies
• Homeless
• Juvenile delinquents
• Disabled persons

Question 2

what is the master race theory

Answer 2

a theory that says that the Aryan race is the superior race

Question 3

what is done with the ‘undesirables’

Answer 3

• Slandered - Labeled publicly as a drag on society/made out to look bad
• Ostracized - ‘pushed out’ of society
• Sterilized - Sterilization law (July 1933) authorized, cannot have kids
• Concentration camps - set apart from others in camps
• Euthanized - killed

Question 4

Ostracized

Answer 4

• Jewish businesses boycotted (April ‘33)
• Jews purged from government offices
• Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
  Nov. 1938
• Jews and Gypsies required to register
  with the government-set apart as
  “other”

Question 5

Concentration camps (info) 4

Answer 5

• Undesirables sent to Concentration
  Camp
• Initially, most were forced labor and
  prison camps
• Eventually, Nazis began designing and
  building camps away from public view
  -These were where the true horrors
  developed.
• Most of the first prisoners were political
  prisoners - Communists - 1933

Question 6

Final solution

Answer 6

• Attempt to systematically kill all Jews
• Began in 1941 (not the first killings of
  Jews)
• Extermination camps built specifically for
  this purpose
• Over 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis

Question 7

Concentration camps - definition

Answer 7

A place where certain groups of people
are collected and separated from the
rest of society

Question 8

Who was Himler - escalation

Answer 8

• Himler promotes a war against
  “organized elements of sub-humanity” in
  1936
• By July 1938, most of the prisoner
  population is “undesirables”, not political
  prisoners

Question 9

Slandered

Answer 9

-Labeled publicly as a drag on society

• Shift public opinion
• Shame vs. Honor

Question 10

Sterilized

Answer 10

Sterilization law (July 1933) authorized
- sterilization of people with certain illnesses

Loosely worded, and therefore easy to abuse

Nearly 700,000 people sterilized

Question 11

Euthanized

Answer 11

In ’39, Nazis began to secretly kill some deemed “undesirable

Specifically mentally and physically ill

Included infants, children, and teenagers

Question 12

conditions in concentration camps

Answer 12

• loss of all personal possessions
• hard labor
• abuse
• dehumanization
• medical experimentations

Question 13

what was the gestapo

Answer 13

the official secret police of Nazi Germany and later , occupied Europe

Question 14

organization of concentration camps

Answer 14

• run by SS
• only Dachau and Litchenburg were started in the early 30’s
  
  • new camps were isolated from public view

Question 15

Adolf Eichmann

Answer 15

• his responsibilities as the leader of the SS
  
  • identify Jews
  • Assemble them
  • Get them to their final destination efficiently

Question 16

what is the SS

Answer 16

Elite guards of the Nazi

Question 17

right group

Answer 17

• Kreisau circle
• met to discuss how Germany should be governed once hitler was removed
  
  • army officers
  • aristocrats
  • Professionals

Question 18

left group

Answer 18

• communists and socialists maintained underground networks
• distributed pamphlets & anti-nazi propaganda
• encouraged strikes among workers

Question 19

army (general beck)

Answer 19

• General Beck wanted to overthrow Hitler in the late 30’s
• bomb plot to kill Hitler - failed in July 1944
  
  • General Beck arrested and killed the same night

Question 20

who spoke up against Euthanasia

Answer 20

the catholic church specifically the Bishop