Nazis- Occupied Europe Flashcards
(8 cards)
Poland Occupation
Forced to be part of Lebensraum
Removed Polish culture, education and leadership (30,000 talented Poles were arrested)
Slavic Poles were considered inferior and 1.9 million non-Jewish Poles were murdered by SS and Wehrmacht
Between 1939-45 1.5 million Poles were in forced labour in Germany
3.5 million Poles were put in Ghettos and 3 million of these were murdered in death camps
Polish government was exiled
August 1944 Polish uprising in Warsaw for two months (killed 200,000 and stopped the uprising)
Netherland Occupation
Viewed as Aryan so treated better
Government was allowed to continue
Dutch schools remained the same
Dutch SS was created
29th June 1940 Dutch people wore a White Carnation in support of a royal family birthday
Dutch resistance increased (strike against Jewish deportation and the strikers were shot)
1943 began to deport Dutch Jews 107,000 Jews were deported
500,000 Dutch were used in forced labour camps
Made anti-Nazi leaflets
20,000 Dutch people died of starvation in Winter 1944-45
How many people died in the Holocaust
11 million people
6 million Jewish people
Jewish Ghettos
Largest Ghetto in Warsaw (Poland) with 445,000 Jews by March 1941
Overcrowding lead to disease and death (140,000 people died)
Mass murder of Jewish people
Einsatzgruppen were mobile killing units that murdered Jewish men women and children by shooting them into their graves (that they dug)
Einsatzgruppen killed 1 million Jews in winter 1941
Gas Vans (Poland)
Extermination camps where 1.7 million Jews were killed (secret places hidden from the General public of Germany)
Auschwitz killed 12,000 people per day
Collaboration with Nazis
Vichy France was run by a French Politician (Petain) who collaborated with the Nazis
Coco Chanel was a fashion designer who dated a Nazi
The DeValg was Belgium helped the Nazis recruit to the SS
Accommodation with the Nazis
The Danish were allowed to keep their government if they maintained good relationships
The Greek Prime Minister were chosen by the Nazis and passed laws demanded by the Nazis
Resistance to Nazis (Occupied Europe)
French Resistance who fought against the Nazis by spying or sabotaging plans
Andre Trocme was a pastor that helped hide 5000 Jews from the Nazis in Vichy France
Poles helped rescue 450,000 Jews
Partisans in Poland escaped the Ghettos and completed sabotage missions against eh Nazis
