holocaust Flashcards
(20 cards)
anti semitism
hitler didn’t invent this just built on the ideas, hitler grew up in Vienna and their mayor was very anti-semitism
hitler believed that jews were the reason that they lost world war one
what was the solution of anti-semitism
to banish the jewish people
boycott
press to fire jewish workers
pressed to no buy from the jewish people
Nuremberg laws
1935
laws against the jews:
not allowed to use public washrooms, pools,restaurants,parks,etc
must show that you are jewish at all times {arm bands, display in home}
lost citizenship, no rights, not allowed to vote
banned marriages of jews to non jews
not allowed to ride bikes
jewish doctors couldn’t practice
kids weren’t allowed to go to school
kristallnacht
1938: 25,000 jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps 200 synagogues burned 8,000 jewish businesses and homes looted 90 jews murdered
euthanasia and sterilization
7275,000 people were euthanized(killed)
targets those whose life was “unworthy of life”
included disabled, criminal, homosexual, insane, black and so on
living conditions f the ghettos
located in the walled cities within Poland
jewish homes and possessions were given to nazi officers
many had no housing at all
overcrowded: 9 people per room
Warsaw ghetto had 5000,000 jews live within its 840 acres
starvation, disease killed thousands each month
random killings
concentration camps
jews were removed from the ghettos and placed in concentration camps where they had to work until they were no longer able to
how people were selected
they were sent to the camps in trains, extremely crammed together
families were separated into male and female lines
separated into camps and extermination camps
the jews that were selected were tattooed with a registration numbers, they were they shaved of all body hair, disinfected and given striped pyjamas and wooden clogs
living conditions in concentration camps
slept on straw mattresses
so overcrowded the prisoners could only sleep on their sides
heating by iron stoves
no electric lighting, limited opportunities for bathing, barracks were damp, lice,rats,epidemis of contagious diseases erupted frequently
extermination camps
elderly
women
children
children 14 and under
concentration camps
20%
men and boys
ages 14+ men/boys
deemed fit
working conditions
daily duties of hard labour jobs, factories, construction projects, farms,coal mines
special units worked in crematoriums in camps, they were chosen because of their strength and fitness
special treatment means
killing
gas vans
mobile gas chambers that employed carbon monoxide
after handing over their valuables they were shot in The. killing squad
know as Einsatzgruppen, German police personnel
travelled into crowded areas and killed,
in some times the prisoners had to dig their own grave
zyklon B
gift gas,
gas chambers
was dropped from the ceiling, died in minutes, but was a agonizing death
death factories
gold death fillings were taken by nazi guards
bodies were disposed in ass
the end of the holocaust
the united nation (UN) is a intergovermnetal organization established on October 24th 1945
it was created to try to stop another war
Nuremberg trials
held for the sole purpose to bring nazi war criminals to justice, there was a series of 13 trials carried out in numbernburg Germany between 1945 to 1949, dependants were nazi party officials, the dependants were charged with: crimes against peace and crimes against humanity
