History- Genocide Flashcards
(38 cards)
Date
1941- 1945
Henrich Himler
Head of the SS.
Black uniform with death’s head and a swastika.
Aryan
Pure, healthy Germanic race.
Neo-Darwinism
‘Only the fittest survive.’
Auschwitz
A concentration camp in Poland
Arbeit Macht Frei
‘Work sets your free.’
On the gates of the concentration camp.
Aryan children
Were taught to hate Jews in school.
November 1939
Kristelnacht
Jews could leave Germany
But they had to pay a hefty fine.
German soldiers
Beat up Jews in the streets.
Any who resist
Execution, public hangings.
Jews had to wear
The Star of David and Jude at all times.
Quote from that time
‘The Jews started the war, now let then clean it up.’
Jews orders into ghettos in Poland
Ghettos were closed off.
They were special suburbs within cities.
Warsaw, Poland
1 room =
3 families with children
They were given
Starvation rations
Harsh punishments for
Smuggling food
Execution squads
Firing squads at first but the SS
3 million Jews in
Poland.
5 million in Russia
11 million in Europe
No chance
Of escape
People forced to
Undress and then were shot dead.
They had to lie
In an open grave head first and then were shot dead.
Germany planned
A thousand year empire.
Wannsee
A conference was held here.
Final Solution was decided upon- the gassing of Jews in Europe.