Holocaust Flashcards

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Anti-semitism meaning

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Anti-Jew feelings and actions

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3 reasons why the nazis hated the Jews

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  1. The nazis believed that the Jews were the reason they lost WW1.
  2. The Jews are taking the German citizens jobs and stealing their money.
  3. Hitler had influential people in his life who made him think this way, for example his dad
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What are the Nuremberg laws?

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The Nuremberg laws were the laws brought in by the nazis that were antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany.

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What is dachau

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Dachau was the first concentration camp in Nazi Germany in 1933.

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What is zyklon B gas

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Zyklon b is the gas the nazis used to gas the people in the concentration camps

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Arbeit macht frei what does this mean and where was it

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This is the phrase on the entrance to the concentration camps and it means work sets you free to make out the camps weren’t as a bad as they really are as you can get released but really you were just killed

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What was the Wannsee conference

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The Wannsee conference was the meeting were the nazis decided to carry out the final solution

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What were cattle wagons used for in the holocaust

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Jews would be crammed into cattle wagons for days of travelling to the concentration camps, there would be so many crammed into one some people would die before they get there and it would be that squished there dead bodies would stay upright!

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9
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What is the holocaust

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The holocaust was the genocide to European Jews during ww2

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10
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How many Jews lived in Germany in 1933

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400,000

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What were the 2 Nuremberg laws

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The reich of citizenship which means the Jews weren’t citizens and were ‘state subjects’ and it was illegal for a Jew to marry or exchange sexual relations with an aryan.

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What is kristalnacht

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It is the “night of broken glass” the nazis beat up the Jews and and destroyed windows and Jew property on this night.

20,000 Jews deported
91 killed

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13
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When was the Wannsee conference

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1942

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What is the final solution

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The code name to the nazis plan to eradicate all Jews.

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15
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What were the gas chambers disguised as

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Shower rooms

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What happened to people before they went into the gas chambers

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They were stripped from everything they own, they took away their clothes and shaved their hair off.

17
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What were the people split into as soon as they arrived at a camp

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They were split into 2 queues
1 queue was people who were fit to work
Another queue was people who couldn’t work and they were sent straight to the gas chambers.

But some people were set aside so the nazis could experiment on them.

18
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Who held the Nuremberg trials

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GB, USA, the Soviet Union and france

19
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What were the 4 changing défiants

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War crimes, crimes against peace, crimes against humanity and conspiracy to commit any of the foregoing crimes.

20
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Wannsee conference date

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1942

21
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When were the Nuremberg laws introduced

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1935

22
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When did kristalnacht happen

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1938

23
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How did prisoners do use self expression

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They produced artwork, read and write poetry and tell stories. This showed how fragile human life is

24
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What’s ere Nazi racial policies

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The Nazi policies were made to make a master race which was called the “aryan” race. They introduced laws eg:Nuremberg laws

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Why did Nazis persecute Jews

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Because they believed Jews were coming to steal jobs and it was their fault that the Germans lost WW1

26
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How’d Nazis persecute Jews

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The Nazis started persecution using propaganda and took tiny steps further and further to more extreme things to persecute Jews and would eventually come up with the final solution.

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In what year did the Nuremberg laws occur

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1935

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In what year did the Wannsee conference occur

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1942

29
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When did kristalnacht occur

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1938

30
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When did the liberation of Auschwitz occur

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1945

31
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When did Dachau open

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1933

32
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When did the boycott of Jewish shops happen

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1933

33
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What is the boycott of Jewish shops

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It was when the “stormtroopers” put up signs on Jewish shops stating “Germans defend yourselves! Don’t buy from the Jews”

34
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Name 5 groups the Nazis persecuted

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Jews, Black people, gay and lesbian people, disabled people and polish and other Eastern European people.

35
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What year did the final solution take place

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1941

36
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What is the Nuremberg trials

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(They are different to the Nuremberg laws)

The Nuremberg trails are the trials the allies held in 1945 after the war and charged the Germans for the war.