Holocaust Flashcards
What was the Holocaust
Destruction of a vast group of people , especially Jewish people
Genocide
Killing off a race of people
Aryan race
People who are from the āsuperior German raceā blond , blue, eyes , no Jewish in the family for over 10 generations
Anti-semitism
The belief against Jewish people
Social Darwinism
The belief that some races ar better than others,
Some races are so bad they are believed to be
Subhuman (untermensche)
Who was himmler
Leader of the ss.
Who are heydrich+eichmann
They organised the holocaust . At the Wannsee conference (jan 1942) they planed the final solution (holocaust)
What was hitters book about and what was it called
It was called Mein kampf (my life)
It was about his radical beliefs and his life
What tragity allowed the nazis to take power
The Great Depression allowed them to introduce themselves and antisemitism views
Why didnāt hitler like the Jews
-he believed they are to blame for the Germans defeat in the Great War
-Jewish businessmen were plotting to take over the world
-believed they were inferior to the Aryan race
When did the first action against the Jews happen
In 1934
What was the first action against Jews
All Jewish shops were marked with a yellow star with the word ājudenā
In parks and on buses and trains, Jews had to sit on separate seats childrenās were taught antisemitic ideas
What are the Nuremberg laws
Created in 1935 to be against the Jews . The first law took away German citizenships from Jews . The second law forbade marriages between Jews and non-jews
When did the night of broken glass happen
Started on the 10th of November 1938 .
What happened in the night of broken glass
It started after Jew shot dead a nazi official. After that ss official leader and police chief were ordered the week of terror on Jews . Nearly 10,000 Jewish shops windows were smashed and looted. Jewish homes and synagogues were burned and dozens killed and thousands arrested
What happened in the Wannsee conference
It happened in January 1942 itās the conference that chose the holocaust as the final solution. It was to send Jews in concentration camps without trial for war crimes
Hoe many Jews were thought to have been murderer by nazis
Six million Jews
What were the changes 1930ās to Jews
Jews were banned from school
Jews sacked from jobs
Jews property was stolen
Banned from playing sport, going to the cinema
How did the Jews travel to camps
The cattle trucks which were cramped, inhuman , unhygienic
Camp food + treatment
Very limited food options
Only got 1 chunk of whale meat a week
They got some sort of vegetable soups
Ss guards could kill prisoners
Doctors could experiment on prisoners
When was dachau opened
March 1933 in dachau Germany -north Munich
Who was sent to the dachau camps
-Jews
-communists
-gay people
-disabled people
-priests and pastors
-gypsies
-socialists
What is the barracks
-the inmates lived here
-it was ment to keep 200 prisoners but towards the end of the war it had 2,000 prisoners
-to get rid of people they killed them simply out of hate
-nazis made them do tedious tasks like making the best perfectly just to be superior to prisoners
