4.20 Policies Towards The Jews 1940-41

Question 1

What does Blitzkreig mean?

Answer 1

Lightning war(German strategy)

Question 2

Operation Barbarossa?

Answer 2

German code man for invasion of ussr

Question 3

Feb 1940

Answer 3

First ghetto set up in Łódź Poland

Question 4

October 1940

Answer 4

Largest ghetto in Warsaw created-Jews exclaimed from rationing

Question 5

July 1941

Answer 5

Einsatzgruppem ordered to kill Jewish sympathisers and communist commissars

Question 6

December 1941?

Answer 6

Jews in Germany compelled to war Star of David

Question 7

When do Germany beat France

Answer 7

Oct 1940

Question 8

When is operation Barbarossa launched

Answer 8

June 1941

Question 9

What 3 measures had further isolated Jews from German society in 1941?

Answer 9

-Radio sets confiscated-Jews banned from buying ratios and chocolate

-1940 excluded from war time rations

-1941: need a police permit to travel

Question 10

What happened to Jews in Ghettos?

Answer 10

Homes confiscated-Jews had to sell valuables to survive (horrendous condition in Ghettos)

Question 11

Describe the Warsaw ghetto?

Answer 11

Jews pay for construction costs
400k Jews concentrated

Horrendous conditions 300 Calories a day(recommended over 2000)

Question 12

Who were the Einsatzgruppen?

Answer 12

Sent to eliminate people behind lines of German army

Import at role in ‘ethnic cleansing’ of territories in western Poland that were incorporated into Greater Germany killed 15,000 people