Holocaust during WWI (1939-1945) Flashcards
(14 cards)
Outbreak of WWI gave Nazi’s the opportunity to do what?
Intensify racial hatred, shifting from persecution to full blown extermination
What was the Nazi goal of expansion called?
Lebensraum
What did Lebensraum call for?
The expansion of German territory into Eastern Europe
How did this idea of territorial expansion/domination accelerate?
Operation Barbossa
When was Operation Barbossa
June 22, 1941
What did Operation Barbossa do?
German forces swept through Eastern Europe, carrying out mass killings of Jews and communists, as well as occupying Soviet land
While killing intensified in the East, how did murder become more organized
Wannsee conference
When was the Wannsee conference
January 1942
What did the Wannsee conference do?
Finalized the ‘Final Solution’- Nazi’s plan to exterminate all Jews in Europe
What happened after the Final Solution was in place?
Construction and expansion of concentration camps through Germany
What were some notable concentration camps and what did they involve?
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka and Sobibor became equipped with gas chambers
Upon advancement, camps like Auschwitz alone, could kill up to how many people per day?
150, 000
Nazi vision of pure society was racially prejudice but also…?
Extended beyond antisemitism with murders of homosexuals, disabled people, Slavs, Romas/Gypsies and political oppositions
Nazi ideology had reached the point where…?
Entire categories of people could be viewed as merely disposable
