5.1 Nazi policies towards the Jews

Question 1

When was the Wannsee Conference?

Answer 1

20th January 1942

Question 2

What did the Wannsee Conference decide?

Answer 2

The Final Solution and how to implement it

Question 3

Following mass emigration in the 1930s, how many Jews were left in Germany?

Answer 3

Less than 200,000

Question 4

How many Jews were in Poland?

Answer 4

3 million

Question 5

What was ghettoisation?

Answer 5

Forcing Jews to move into ghettos in cities in Poland

Question 6

What were the ghettos known as?

Answer 6

Jewish Quarters

Question 7

What were the conditions in the ghettos?

Answer 7

Poor housing, restriction of food, and starvation was common. Diseases spread rapidly.

Question 8

How high was the wall that surrounded the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw?

Answer 8

3.5 metres topped with barbed wire

Question 9

Between January 1941 and July 1942, how many Jews died of starvation and disease on average?

Answer 9

4,000

Question 10

When were the Warsaw Jews ‘resettled’

Answer 10

July 1942

Question 11

How many of the Warsaw Jews were sent to camps in Eastern Poland?

Answer 11

250,000. Most were put to death

Question 12

When did Germany invade the Soviet Union?

Answer 12

June 1941

Question 13

What is the name of the special unit that followed the Germany army into the USSR to kill Jews?

Answer 13

Einsatzgruppen

Question 14

How were Jews often killed by the Einsatzgruppen?

Answer 14

Shot or gassed and bodies thrown into mass graves

Question 15

How many civilians are estimated to have been killed by the Einsatzgruppen by 1943 in the USSR?

Answer 15

1.2 million

Question 16

What happened in Ejszyszki?

Answer 16

• Town in Lithuania
• 4,000 Jews were rounded up into three synagogues
• Held there for two days, then taken to the cemetery and shot in front of open pits

Question 17

When was the Final Solution decided?

Answer 17

20th January 1942 at the Wannsee Conference

Question 18

What were concentration camps to be converted to in the Final Solution?

Answer 18

Extermination camps

Question 19

How many Jews were put to death after the Final Solution

Answer 19

Almost 6 million

Question 20

How many non-Jews were killed as a result of the Nazis persecution?

Answer 20

5 million

Question 21

Medically, what happened to some of the Jews transported to concentration camps?

Answer 21

They were part of medical experiments

Question 22

What did propaganda show of the concentration camps?

Answer 22

Made them out as ‘resettlement camps’

Showed actors being treated well and living in good conditions

Question 23

Explain the Warsaw Uprising

Answer 23

• A month of fighting against transportation to Treblinka
• 56,000 Jews were arrested

Question 24

What happened to Rudolph Hoess in 1947?

Answer 24

Arrested for his crimes

Question 25

What job did Rudolph Hoess have?

Answer 25

Commandant of Auschwitz

Question 26

Who became the SS General in 1941?

Answer 26

Reinhard Heydrich

Question 27

Who was chosen to be in charge of administering the Final Solution?

Answer 27

Heydrich

Question 28

When was Heydrich killed?

Answer 28

May 1942 by Czech hit squad

Question 29

What did the Nazis do in response to Heydrich’s death?

Answer 29

Executing over 1,000 Czechs and massacring the whole village of Lidice.