Holocaust covering nuremburg laws, Ghettoization, Kristallnacht , Wannsee Conference, Einsatzgruppen

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1. when was the The Wannsee Conference held and who held it

   1942 20th JAN was a meeting between senior Nazi government officials

2. The meeting was called by

   Reinhard Heydrich

3. The main goal of the conference was

   to establish and ensure the administrative leaders of each area would cooperate on the Nazi party’s “Final Solution on the Jewish Question”

4. The final solution was

   Nazi Germany’s plan to deport all the Jewish populations of the country to Poland and have them executed in the death camps.

5. how many Jews were expelled from Germany

   537000

6. Nazi generals have decided on how the Jews will be either

   “eliminated by natural causes” (death by hard labour or starvation) or “treated accordingly” (execution by SS or gassed)

7. Einsatzgruppen were

   efficient murderers who rounded up Jewish populations by surprise Einsatzgruppen were regular men who were tainted by propaganda and drank to dull

8. Victims were

   forced to surrender their valuables and clothing Victims were taken to forests, fields, and ravines and shot or gassed with gas vans

9. Some victims were saved due to

   help from members of the general population, but most were afraid of being executed

10. The Kristallnacht or Night of Broken Glass occurred on

    November 9-10, 1938 in Germany.

11. this pogrom involved

    destroying Jewish property and businesses.

12. The reasons behind the Kristallnacht include

    anti-Semitism and the belief that Jews were a threat to the nation.

13. Propaganda was

    used to dehumanise Jews and decrease their acceptance in society.

14. The assassination of a German official (Ernst vom Rath) in Paris by a Polish Jew

    was the tipping point for the Nazi regime to carry out the Kristallnacht.

15. ______ Jews captured and transported to concentration camps for no reason

    30000

16. ___ synagogue were burnt

    1000

17. _____ was the centre of Jewish life in Poland

    Warsaw

18. Germans occupied Warsaw in

    September 1939,

19. a Jewish council ____ was ordered to oversee policies regarding Jews less than a week after germany occupied warsaw

    Judenrat

20. Jews were ordered to identify themselves with white armbands with the blue star of David in

    November 1939

21. The Jewish ghetto was announced in

    October 1940, enclosing around 400,000 Jews in an area of 3 square kilometres with over 7 people per room

22. People in the ghetto suffered from

    lack of food, with the average Jew receiving only 1125 calories daily out of the recommended 2000-2500

23. ______ Jews died from disease in the ghetto

    From 1940 to 1942, 83,000

24. In 1942, the Germans deported 265,000 Jews from the ghetto

    to the Treblinka killing centre and killed 35,000 in the process

25. Many ghetto survivors were

    forced to work at concentration camps, where thousands died or were sent to killing centres

26. Warsaw was liberated in

    January 1945, with only 11,500 Jews left out of the pre-war population of 400,000 in the ghetto

27. Life in the ghetto was

    characterised by starvation, cramped living conditions, and lack of access to education and healthcare

28. Children were

    particularly vulnerable to starvation and disease

29. Nazi policy moved from _________ autumn 1941 onwards.

    mass shooting to comprehensive extermination from autumn 1941 onwards.

30. Kristallnacht

    Nov 9-10, 1938

31. Einsatzgruppen

    1941-1945

32. Ghettoization

    1939 -1941

33. Einsatzgruppen

34. Nuremberg Laws

    Nuremberg Laws 1935

35. The Nuremberg Laws were announced on

    September 15, 1935, at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party.

36. • The laws were aimed at

    defining who was considered a "Jew" and separating them from the rest of German society.

37. Jews were

    stripped of their citizenship, making them "subjects" of the state instead of citizens.

38. Marriage and sexual relations between

    Jews and non-Jews were prohibited.

39. • Jews were prohibited from displaying the

    German flag or national colours, and they were required to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing to identify themselves as Jewish.

40. The Nuremberg Laws also defined who was considered a

    a "German," based on ancestry and racial criteria.

41. • The laws served as a basis for further

    further persecution of the Jewish population and contributed to the Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of six million Jews.