4/23 Flashcards
1
Q
why?
A
- Germans blamed the Jews for ww1
- and their economic problems that followed ww1
2
Q
“master race”
A
aryans
all other races were considered inferior
3
Q
Nuremberg laws
A
Passed in 1935 -only affected Jews in Germany -deprived rights of German citizenship prohibited marriage to non- Jewish - limited work
4
Q
violent riots against Jews
A
pogroms
- most common form of abut semitism
- encouraged by gov
5
Q
kritallnacht “night of broken glass”
A
October 9, 1938
- killed close to 100 Jews
- destroyed buildings of every kind that were Jewish
- named after all the broken glass
6
Q
3 tries of hitler to get rid of Jews
A
- deportation
- ghettos
- concentration camps
7
Q
ghettos
A
city neighborhood in which European Jews were forced to live (sealed off with barbed wire and stone)
8
Q
holocaust
A
systematic murder of millions of Jews by the nazis during ww2
