Final Flashcards
Types of antisemitism and examples
Religious “blood Libels and Christ killers”
Racial “Jewish blood is inferior”
Anti Zionist “bds movement (Ernst zundel)”
Holocaust Denial “holocaust denial books being published”
Protocols of the elders of Zion
Book about Jewish conspiracy to take over the world
World War One (date and sides)
1914-1918
Triple Entente: Britain USA Canada France Russia
Enemy: Germany
Treaty of Versailles
Germany lost the war Germans had to: 1) Pay compensation to France. 2) Lost Land. 3) Reduce the size of its army and navy. This Led to poverty in Germany.
Consequence of the treaty of Versailles on the German economy
Led to poverty, unemployment and inflation (they ran off money)
They blamed the Jews.
Consequences of the treaty of Versailles on the German ideology.
Germans created extremist political parties like communism and facism. They were fixated on war
Great Depression (Date And Consequence on Germany)
1929 stock market crashed
Germany became even more politically extreme and even more POOR
Adolf hitler is elected (date and details)
- Hitler is elected in a democratic election. He became der führer and eliminated all other parties with the enabling act.
Initial laws that Hitler Implemented for Jews
Expelled from civil services
Boycott Jewish business
No Jews in media
No dogs, no pools, no parks
LATER ON
kicked out of their homes and had to live in the ghetto and wear the yellow star.
1000 year Reich
The Nazi government claimed they’d rain for 1000 years
Public book burnings
Anything written by or about Jews was burned
Kristallnacht 1938
Policy of appeasement
In 1919 WW1 ended
North American countries became isolationist and didn’t want to have a European war
Many countries were happy so long as Germany didn’t attack them
They signed non aggression pacts with the Nazis.
Nuremberg laws (date and details)
1935
1) stripped German Jews of citizenship
2) Jews can’t marry German non Jews
3) Jews cannot hire German women under 45 year old
4) punishable with prison sentence
Kristallnacht (date and details)
The night of broken glass in November 1938
Jews were killed, shops were looted and Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Jews had to pay millions for damages
Evian conference (date and goal)
- Countries all grouped up to decide what to do with Jewish refugees that wanted to flee from Germany. Close to No one took Jews.
Judenrein
Cleansed of jews. Germans wanted to eliminate all their Jews. They forced Jews to stay in Dachau
Euthanasia program
Before 1939 Nazis murdered Germans who were undesirable (handicapped or disabled)
World War Two dates and Sides
1939-1945
Allies - Canada USA Britain Russia (USSR) France
Axis- Germany Japan Italy
What was the deal with Vichy France world war 2
They corroborated with the Nazis
Poland is attacked
Germany instantly takes over Poland. It was called a Blitzkreig (lightning attack)
Main causes of death in the ghetto
Starvation and disease. 1/3 Jews died in the ghetto
Smuggling in the ghetto
Smuggling was very important. People had to fake accents and it mainly women as they didn’t have a circumcised penis.
Food medicine weapons information money
Judenraat
Jewish council in the ghetto
Spiritual resistance in the ghetto
Shuls in the ghetto Orphanages school and theatre in the ghetto Sukkot and Bar mitzvahs Newspapers Youth groups
Physical resistance in the ghetto
Jews smuggled guns into the ghetto and fought back
Nazis attack USSR
Nazis invaded USSR. Big mistake. Operation Barbossa.
They had already signed a non aggression pact. Russia is enormous and cold and Nazis had to split up the troops
Einsatzgruppen
Mobile killing units
Shot Jews. Made them remove valuables and dig graves
Wannsee Conference (date and details)
Wanted conference of 1942 was to decide upon the final solution for the Jews. It was devised by Adolf Eichman. They decided to kill all Jews.
Concentration camps
Dehumanizing and terrorized people.
Starved and forced labour
Re education and medical experiments.
Medical experiments
They would run dangerous medical experiments on Jews. Mainly twins. Doctor Mengele Was obsessed with twins.
Death camps
Zyklon B in gas chambers.
Sonder Kommando
Sonder kommando had to remove dead bodies from gaz chambers.
Denmark and righteous gentiles
Righteous gentiles - non Jews who saved Jews during the holocaust
Denmark - the entire country were righteous gentiles - King Christian
