Germany and occupied territories WW2

Question 1

What is a genocide?

Answer 1

The deliberate killing of people of a particular nation or ethnic group

Question 2

Where were Jews forced to move into?

Answer 2

Ghettos

Question 3

What were the conditions like in the ghettos?

Answer 3

Poor housing, starving was common, overcrowding meant diseases like typhus spread quickly

Question 4

Between 1941 and 1942, how many Jews dies in the Warsaw Ghetto?

Answer 4

4,000 from disease and starvation

Question 5

Where did Germany invade in 1941 and what was the invasion called?

Answer 5

Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa

Question 6

Give an example of a death squad

Answer 6

Einsatzgruppen

Question 7

How many people had the Einsatzgruppen killed by 1943?

Answer 7

An estimated 1.2 million.

Question 8

What year was the Final Solution?

Answer 8

1941

Question 9

What was decided at the Wannsee conference in 1942?

Answer 9

Some of the concentration camps would be converted to extermination camps

Question 10

What method did the Nazis use for mass killing in the camps?

Answer 10

poison gas

Question 11

What prevented the German people reacting negatively to what was happening?

Answer 11

Propaganda films were made to show resettlement camps were no more than labour camps where people were treated well.

Question 12

What happened in Warsaw in 1943?

Answer 12

The Warsaw Ghetto uprising. After a month of fighting, 56 Jews were arrested, 7,000 were shot and the rest were sent to camps.

Question 13

What did the Nazis do when it was clear they were not going to win the war?

Answer 13

Hide the evidence by digging up railway lines and destroying some records.

Question 14

Who was Rudolph Hoess and what happened to him?

Answer 14

He was the commander of the Auschwitz camp and hanged for war crimes in 1947.

Question 15

When was rationing introduced in Germany?

Answer 15

1939

Question 16

What was KLV (Kinderlandverschickung)?

Answer 16

Evacuating German children into rural areas due to bombing campaigns

Question 17

How much bread were you entitled to under rationing?

Answer 17

Half a loaf day

Question 18

How many German soldiers died in Operation Barbarossa?

Answer 18

2 million

Question 19

What was the scorched earth policy the Soviets used during Operation Barbarossa?

Answer 19

Burning or destroying crops that may have been useful to an invading enemy force.

Question 20

What did Goebbels announce in Germany in 1943?

Answer 20

Total War

Question 21

What were some of the measures Germany took during total war?

Answer 21

Russian prisoners of war were used for slave labour, women wee allowed to help the war effort, working week increased to 60 hours, ban on holidays

Question 22

When did the British RAF carry out bombing attacks on German cities?

Answer 22

Aug 1940

Question 23

Give an example of how Allied bombing impacted war production

Answer 23

When the Ruhr valley was bombed, it’ s thought to have reduced metal production by approximately 40%.

Question 24

Identify 2 impacts the war had on women

Answer 24

Those aged 17-45 had to register for work and there was a psychological impact worrying about their husbands and sons.

Question 25

Identify 4 resistance groups in Nazi Germany

Answer 25

Communists, Swing Youth, Edelweiss Pirates, White Rose Group

Question 26

What happened to Sophie Scholl?

Answer 26

She was executed by the guillotine in 1943

Question 27

What was the Volkssturm?

Answer 27

Home guard formed to protect Germany from invasion

Question 28

Who planted the bomb that was supposed to kill Hitler in July 1944?

Answer 28

Von Stauffenberg

Question 29

When did Hitler commit suicide?

Answer 29

April 1945

Question 30

When did Germany surrender?

Answer 30

May 1945