ghettos and final solution- ww2: Flashcards

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ghetto:

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areas in towns or cities where jews seperated by force. Poland and other areas.

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conditions of the ghettos:

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starved to death for some
hungry skinny poor unhealthy forced labour over crowded-diseases
begging on streets, diary of pepa bergman-14yrs
in photos-malnourished, skinny, no bones sad, ready tow rk for manual labour
7-9 shared one room-on average

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nazi death squad:

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Einsatzgruppen
exute/shot and beat people to death

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nd finwhat did nazis come to realised after invasion of poland?

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they realsied that in the areas of nazi occupied poland there was many jews- 2 million jews
leading Reinhard heyrdich to temporarily gather all jews and move them to certain areas-ghtettos

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final solution:

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20th Jan 1942 with 15 other leading officials to decide on final solution for the jews in nazi occupied europe.
known as wanseee conference and met at a villa near berlin

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Reihard Heydrich:

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borin in 1904
assasinated by czech jewish partisans. died 1942 3 yrs before ww2 ended
racist, anitsemitic, strong nazism beliefs man w iron heart-nickname

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why did murder of jews move to west?

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War agaisnt USSR going bad and nazi leaders worried didnt want their people to know.

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why did murder of jews move to west?

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War agaisnt USSR going bad and nazi leaders worried didnt want their people to know.

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after final solution:

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mass genocide of jews across europe over next 12 months
poland alone -1.2 milion
program codenames operation reinhard
transported them from ghettos to death camps

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how did nazis carry out final solution:

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most jews died from march-february-1942-43
prepare for fs built 6 death camps chelmno, belzec, aushwitz, maidanek, sobibor, treblinka
built railway tracks near where nazis were gathered to transport them to to death camps easily sytemic -most effiecient way to kill as many jews as possible
by summer 1942-farmhouses had been coverted into deathcamps,
began buliding ab in octber 1942
1000s of romas deported to ab
couldnt cope with big numbers so by march 1943-new bulidings opened w chambers and crematorial ovens and zyklon b to gas them w.
100s died from diseaseds and gcs,

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death camps:

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camp where people are gathered togteher tp be killed

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concentration camp:

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a camp where people are gathered together to be segregated from society usually with the aim of making them do hard labours.

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