Holocaust

Question 1

Definition

Answer 1

The systematic, bureaucratic inhalation of six million Jews by the nazi regime and their collaborators as a central act of state during wwll

Question 2

The persecution of Jews had happened…

Answer 2

Through out history - there had always been anti-Semitic feelings against Jews.

Question 3

In Germany there was a belief that Jews where greedy.

Why?

Answer 3

They were money lenders and they were to blame for Germany losing the war

Question 4

What was one of the reasons hitler didn’t like Jews?

Answer 4

He applied for an art school but was refuse a place. The professor of the art collage was a Jew.

Question 5

In what country was auschwitz built?

Answer 5

Poland

Question 6

What was a ghetto?

Answer 6

Part of a city which members of a minority group live as a result of social, legal or economic pressure.
The term was used to describe where Jews were restricted to.

Question 7

What were the Einsatzgruppen?

Answer 7

A paramilitary death squad of nazi Germany

Question 8

What message was on the main entrance gate of auschwitz?

Answer 8

Work sets you free

Question 9

What was a disadvantage of using Einsatzgruppen?

Answer 9

It was a waste if ammunition

Question 10

What were standing cells?

Answer 10

Small cells that made prisoners do nothing but stand

Question 11

What poisonous gas was used at auschwitz?

Answer 11

Hydrogen cyanide

Question 12

How many inmates were expected to use one toilet?

Answer 12

35,000

Question 13

What happened at kanada section?

Answer 13

Where all the prisoners belongings were sorted and held.

To be used in the war

Question 14

By mid 1944 how many people could be killed per day?

Answer 14

6000

Question 15

How many were killed at auschwitz?

Answer 15

1.1 million

Question 16

The wooden bunks were originally built for… horses but… people had to stay in them

Answer 16

52

1,000

Question 17

1 straw mattress and blanket held… people

Answer 17

8

Question 18

What date was dachau set up?

Answer 18

March 1933

Up to April 1945

Question 19

How many prisoners were killed at dachau?

Answer 19

31,954

Question 20

When was dachau illiterates by the American army?

Answer 20

1945

Question 21

Was the gas chamber used a dachau?

Answer 21

It was never used to kinder prisoners

Question 22

How did nazi leaders describe dachau?

Answer 22

Preventative custody

Question 23

Lost 4 groups of prisoners held at dachau

Answer 23

Jews
Homosexuals
Common criminals
Russian and polish

Question 24

Describe 2 medical experiments carried out at dachau

Answer 24

Used prisoners as guinea pigs

Autopsy on dead people’s brains

Question 25

Who was Hermann?

Answer 25

The highest ranking nazi official. | He was second in command to hitler and he instructed Heydrich to come up with the final solution.

Question 26

Who was Heydrich?

Answer 26

A high ranking nazi official and a main architect of the holocaust . He came up with the final solution of gassing the Jews. He was later assassinated

Question 27

What was Joseph mengele’s nickname?

Answer 27

Angel of death

Question 28

Describe 2 experiments Joseph Mengele carried out.

Answer 28

Stitching twins together | Injecting one twin

Question 29

What happened to Joseph mengele when the war ended?

Answer 29

He took a stroke at 78 and died

Question 30

What were ghettos?

Answer 30

Segregated areas where jews had to live

Question 31

How many ghettos did the nazis create in Eastern Europe?

Answer 31

At least 1,000

Question 32

The nazis used Jews as...

Answer 32

Forced labour in their factories.

Question 33

Where was the largest ghetto and how many were there?

Answer 33

Warsaw | 400,000 in 3.4 square Km

Question 34

What diseases did people die from at the ghettos?

Answer 34

Typhus and deliberate policy of saturated rations

Question 35

When and where did the nazis meet for the final solution?

Answer 35

20th January 1942 | House of Wansee (a suburb of Berlin)

Question 36

What was the final solution?

Answer 36

To establish special death camps to execute Europe’s Jewish population by gas/death camps

Question 37

What were the sonderkommandos?

Answer 37

Jewish prisoners