Final Solution

Question 1

Hitlers foreign policy goals

Answer 1

1. Build a greater Germany
2. Lebensraum
3. Rebuild military
4. destroy Versailles treaty
5. Destroy communism

Question 2

Holocaust

Answer 2

Winston Churchill “crime without a name”

Paul Bookbinder “complete destruction by burning”

Question 3

Genocide

Answer 3

• Acts committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group
• term created by Raphael Lemkin: police Jew fled nazis

Question 4

Poland

Answer 4

• Supply of forced laborers

- polish teachers, priests or central figures were targeted for immediate persecution

Question 5

Ghettos

Answer 5

• Marked off sections of town
• served as basis for utilizing labor
• Jews worked 10-12 hours in factories
• overcrowding/sanitation/ hunger issues

Question 6

Warsaw ghetto

Answer 6

-largest ghetto in Poland
-350,000 Jews
10 ft wall
-30% of city’s population in 2.4% of city’s area

Question 7

Chelmno

Answer 7

• killing center(1st stationary one)
• SS officials dressed up as doctors
• prisoners told they were taking a shower
• 50-70 were killed at a time

Question 8

Soviet Union

Answer 8

-nazis invaded Soviet Union on June 22,1941

Question 9

Einsatzgruppen

Answer 9

• Special death squads

- moved behind army and killed Jews in occupied soviet territory : Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia

Question 10

Babi Yar

Answer 10

• in Kiev(Ukraine)

- 34,000 Jews were murdered in two days of shooting

Question 11

Partisans

Answer 11

• escaped from ghettos and made fighting units

Question 12

Killing centers

Answer 12

-6 major
Chelmno
Treblinka
Sobibar
Belzec
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Majdanek-Lublin

Question 13

Auschwitz

Answer 13

• largest extermination camp
• Kraków, Poland
• victims that’s didn’t die had identities taken
• opened May 20, 1940
• concentration, extermination, forced labor
• sign said “work makes one free”

Question 14

Josef Mengele

Answer 14

Carried experimental treatments on dwarfs, twins and younger children

Question 15

Political prisoners

Answer 15

• Wore red triangles
• jehovahs witnesses wore purple
• letters indicated nationality
• common criminals wore green
• gypsies and Germans considered “asocial” wore black

Question 16

Euthanasia

Answer 16

• “T-4 program”
• required cooperation of doctors-children injected with deadly dose of drugs
• killed in gas chambers

Question 17

Wannsee conference

Answer 17

• nazi party and German leaders met in wealthy section of Berlin
• Jan 20 1942
• Reinhard Heydrich head of himmlers SS held to discuss Final Solution

Question 18

Final solution

Answer 18

Nazi code name for deliberate careful destruction of all euro Jews

Question 19

Death marches

Answer 19

• prisoners taken on train

- ppl who fell behind were shot