Escalation of Jewish Persecution and Deportation

Question 1

Shortly after World War II was announced - September 1939

Answer 1

Germans initiated T4 programme - campaign of mass murder and involuntary euthanasia

Question 2

Murdered intellectually or physically disabled people in Germany

Answer 2

By their very existence - deemed ‘life unworthy of living’

Question 3

Führer Chancellery director Phillip Bouhler and physician Karl Brandt

Answer 3

Led programme - established gassing installations

Question 4

German public protested

Answer 4

against murders - bishop of Münster, Clemens August Count Von Galen protested in sermon

Question 5

Public’s knowledge

Answer 5

Caused Hitler to halt programme in August 1941 - continued secretly murdering Germans during war

Question 6

Calculations from T4 programme

Answer 6

Claimed the lives of around 70,000 people

Question 7

First deportations - October 1939

Answer 7

German authorities did systematic deportations of Jews in October 1941

Question 8

Major deportations

Answer 8

Deported 42,000 Jews to ghettos in Poland, 50,000 to ghettos in Belarus

Question 9

The escalation of Jewish persecution and deportation was a consequence of Kristallnacht because

Answer 9

it resulted in the deaths of thousands of Jews either by murder or natural causes because of poor living conditions