Chapter 20 Flashcards
When was Operation Barbarossa launched?
June 1941
When did Hitler defeat France?
October 1940
How many Jews came under Nazis rule with the invasion of the USSR in June 1941?
3 million
What was Blitzkrieg?
Literally meant ‘lighting war’; it combined air attacks with motorised ground units to devastating effect.
When and where was the first Jewish ghetto set up?
In Lodz, February 1940
How many calories a day were Jews in the Warsaw ghetto receiving compared with the average German?
Germans received 2310 calories a day; Jews in the Warsaw ghetto got just 300.
How many people died in the Warsaw ghetto between 1940-41?
100,000, from malnutrition and disease.
Who were the Einsatzgruppen?
‘Special Groups’ sent in to the USSR behind the German forces.
How many Soviet Jews dies at the hands of the Einsatzgruppen in June and July 1941 alone?
500,000
Who were the members of the Einsatzgruppen?
Police, regular troops, and volunteers found along the way, probably Jews or Bolshevists trying to prove their loyalty to the Nazis in order to save their lives.
What was the name of the planned invasion of the USSR?
Operation Barbarossa
What would Operation Barbarossa allow Hitler to achieve?
Lebensraum
What did Operation Barbarossa do?
Bring millions of Soviet Jews under Nazi control.
When did Hitler issue the order to kill Soviet Jews?
He never issued such an order.
What did the war with Russia intensify?
The ‘Jewish question’
