Appeasement Lecture Flashcards
Anschluss?
March 1938.
Austria annexed.
Sudetenland annexed. (northern, southern and western areas of former Czechoslovakia)
Operation Anthropoid?
Assassination of Heydrich
Theresienstadt Ghetto?
SS established it.
In Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Served as a waystation to extermination camps.
Sudeten Crisis?
Protests in the Sudetenland from Sudeten Germans.
Nationalist sentiments.
Wanted in to Nazi Germany.
Popular Front?
coalition between various socialist, communist, separatist, anarchist, and republican parties.
What did the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact do?
Paved the way for Russia and Nazi Germany to invade Poland
What happened to the Labour movement across Europe?
Rapid growth
What happened to the Labour Party between 1917 and 1920?
Went from 2.5 million to 4.4 million
International brigades?
soldiers set up by the Communist International to assist the Popular Front govt of the Second Spanish Republic during the Civil War
Examples of IBs?
Marshall Tito and CPY, IBs formed the core that developed BOPA, FTP and MOI in France
Who held a Anschluss referendum and what was the result?
Kurt Schuschnigg and 99% in favour of Anschluss
What were the consequences of Anschluss?
27 killed.
6000 arrested.
3000 sent to Dachau (concentration camp).
What is the Heimwehr?
Home Guard in Austria
Resistance in Vienna 1938?
Archbishop of Vienna- ‘there is just one Fuhrer: Jesus Christ’
What happened to the Vienna Jews in 1942?
transported to the Minsk Ghetto.
65,000 murdered.
What was the Moscow Declaration 1943?
Govts of UK, US, and Soviet Union agree Austria was a victim and shall be liberated from German domination.
Adolf Eichmann?
One of the major organisers of the Holocaust.
Logistics of mass deportation of Jews.
Heydrich?
Chief of the Reich Main Security Office (includes Gestapo).
Deputy/acting Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
who was the ‘first victim’?
Austria
Waldheim’s Affair?
Prisoners shot close to his office.
No evidence of personal involvement.
Must have known about them.
How did the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia emerge?
Czech part of Czechoslovakia invaded in March 1939.
Puppet govt on 15th March.
What happened to the Protectorate under Heydrich?
Czech cultural organisations closed.
Terezin made into a Ghetto and deportation of Jews organised.
German rule was moderate as the Czech’s were too important economically, and too obedient politically to alienate.
What resistance groups/movements in Czech were there?
SOE
UVOD
Anthropoid
Operation Anthropoid?
27th May 1942.
Heydrich attacked in car.
British trained resistance fighters.
Lidice Massacre 1942?
Hitler ordered execution of 30,000 Czech’s as reprisal.
Lidice wiped off map.
