History- Genocide Flashcards

1
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Date

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1941- 1945

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2
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Henrich Himler

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Head of the SS.

Black uniform with death’s head and a swastika.

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3
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Aryan

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Pure, healthy Germanic race.

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4
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Neo-Darwinism

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‘Only the fittest survive.’

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5
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Auschwitz

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A concentration camp in Poland

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6
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Arbeit Macht Frei

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‘Work sets your free.’

On the gates of the concentration camp.

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7
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Aryan children

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Were taught to hate Jews in school.

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8
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November 1939

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Kristelnacht

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9
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Jews could leave Germany

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But they had to pay a hefty fine.

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10
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German soldiers

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Beat up Jews in the streets.

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11
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Any who resist

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Execution, public hangings.

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12
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Jews had to wear

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The Star of David and Jude at all times.

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13
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Quote from that time

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‘The Jews started the war, now let then clean it up.’

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14
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Jews orders into ghettos in Poland

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Ghettos were closed off.
They were special suburbs within cities.
Warsaw, Poland

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15
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1 room =

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3 families with children

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16
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They were given

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Starvation rations

17
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Harsh punishments for

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Smuggling food

18
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Execution squads

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Firing squads at first but the SS

19
Q

3 million Jews in

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Poland.
5 million in Russia
11 million in Europe

20
Q

No chance

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Of escape

21
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People forced to

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Undress and then were shot dead.

22
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They had to lie

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In an open grave head first and then were shot dead.

23
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Germany planned

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A thousand year empire.

24
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Wannsee

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A conference was held here.

Final Solution was decided upon- the gassing of Jews in Europe.

25
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Zyklon B

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Commercial poison.

Used in high amounts in gas chambers.

26
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Jews were told that they were being moved

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For resettlement

27
Q

Barely any

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Air to breathe in the trains on the way to the camps.

28
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Medical inspection upon arrival

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Separated into two groups.

Those who could work were placed one side and everyone else on another.

29
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They were told they were getting

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A shower so they had to undress before entering the gas chambers.

30
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Gas entered

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Fro the top and killed people.

31
Q

Death by

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Beating, exhaustion and gassing.

32
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Some people couldn’t take it

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And committed suicide on the electric fences.

33
Q

A Rabi said

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‘There is no God’

34
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After gassing

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The bodies were burnt to remove evidence in July 1944.

Extermination camps.

35
Q

Gypsies were gassed

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When the German army was retreating.

6 million Jews were killed (4 million in camps and 2 million by shootings).

36
Q

Russians came to Auschwitz

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January 1945
The survivors or the camp were abandoned by the Nazis.
After the Americans came, they were liberated.

37
Q

5 million undesirables killed +

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6 million Jews = 11 million people.

38
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Mao Zedong

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1949- 1976

A Chinese ruler who also committed genocide.