Exam 2 holocaust

Question 1

assumptions why jews didnt leave

Answer 1

it was easy to leave
who is a jew
they have somewhere to go
jews did not leave

Question 2

what held jews back from leaving

Answer 2

they could afford to leave

they had proper documents to leave

Question 3

april laws

Answer 3

removed jews from civil service jobs

Question 4

traveling to other countries after WWI

Answer 4

you need passports
paper work
hard to get all the documentation to leave

Question 5

one place you could go without your countries permission

Answer 5

shanghi

Question 6

Evian Conference

Answer 6

called by FDR
held in Evian, France
helped protect US image
didnt offer help to refugees

Question 7

S.S. St. Louis

Answer 7

Jewish refugee ship
907 jews
luxury cruiser
1939
denied from US and Cuba returned to Europe

Question 8

4 countries to accept refugees

Answer 8

great britain 
belgium
netherlands
france
but all but GB became occupied by germany

Question 9

spring of 1940

Answer 9

germany advances into western Europe

Question 10

Eugenics

Answer 10

improving a human species through sex
germany tried to increase the strong and decrease the weak
forced sterilization

Question 11

people forced to be sterilized

Answer 11

depression
blindness
deafness
deformed
alcoholics

Question 12

Himmler

Answer 12

head of the SS

Question 13

prisoners badges shapes

Answer 13

always triangles

Question 14

Jan Karski

Answer 14

polish man
underground courier
gave testimonials to heads of countries

Question 15

jews were safe in the west untill

Answer 15

1941

Question 16

Nisco Plan

Answer 16

move jews in another part of poland

Question 17

madagascar plan

Answer 17

ship 3 million jews there

logistics issues

Question 18

invasion of soviet union

Answer 18

hitler wanted jews = bolsheviks = communism

Question 19

final solution

Answer 19

was a process
unorganized
unsystematic
force must be as brutal as can be

Question 20

order police

Answer 20

almost 4x as many than the einsatzgruppen

Question 21

date germany invaded soviet union

Answer 21

june 22 1941

Question 22

July-August 1941

Answer 22

jews in camps and ghettos

“all jews must be shot” Himmler

Question 23

Babi Yar

Answer 23

34,000 Kiev Jews

Question 24

by October 1943

Answer 24

5 million Jews were murdered

Question 25

most notorious killing units

Answer 25

lithuanians
latvians
ukrainians

Question 26

mischlinge

Answer 26

mixed lineage

part jew

Question 27

Treblinka

Answer 27

2 hour time till death

killed 18,000 per day

Question 28

Requests from jewish orgs to country leaders

Answer 28

1) round up germans living in other countries
2) buy the jews or exchanged for goods
3) bomb the roads and railroads (excuse was targets were too difficult)
none of them went through

Question 29

Kurt Gerstien

Answer 29

tried to interupt the process without being caught

Question 30

Raoul Wallenburg

Answer 30

offered jews swedish visas

Question 31

IBM

Answer 31

Helped the germans created programs to help track everything

Question 32

Kindertransports

Answer 32

early 1939

saves 10,000 children

Question 33

nuremburg laws

Answer 33

anti-semantic laws to make germany scientifically racist

Question 34

T4 programs

Answer 34

euthanasia
gassing
crematoria

Question 35

euthanasia

Answer 35

intentionally ending life in order to end pain or suffering

Question 36

einsatsgruppen

Answer 36

mobile killing units under the SS

Question 37

4 death camps

Answer 37

brikenau
chelmno
operation rheinhard
Majdanek

Question 38

Operation rheinhard

Answer 38

Treblinka
belzec
Sobibor

Question 39

killing methods

Answer 39

einsatzgruppen - shooting
gassing
tests/gassing
zyclon B

Question 40

burial methods

Answer 40

Mass graves
burning out doors
crematoria

Question 41

March 1942

Answer 41

nazis regime is ready to carry out final solution