history - Holocaust Flashcards

Question

what does Hitler promise

Answer 1

end reparations, create jobs, rearm Germany

Answer 2

lebensraum

Answer 3

appoints Hitler as Chacellor, like he speaker

Answer 4

suspend freedom of the press, suspend freedom of expression, suspend freedom to hold public assemblies, and allows police to detain citizens without a cause

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declared Third Reich

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the communist

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No german citizenship no marrige of non jews no schooling or teaching no government jobs to practice of law to practice of medicine no publishing

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Herschel Grynszpan shot German diplomat in paris, revengge for expulsion of thousands of Polish Jews living in Germany - Nazi leadership used the occasion as an excuse to launch antisemetic violence across Germany

Answer 9

the anniverary of Hitler attempted coup

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the night of broken glass

Answer 11

to make it look like it wasn't set up

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jews blamed for everything, had to pay the costs of damages, dozens of anti-jewish laws and decrees enacted further restricting right of german jews

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Nazis tried to promote Jewish emigration but encounterd trouble, jews fleeing Germany had trouble finding nations that would accept them, france already had 40.000 jewish refugees and did not want more and british worried about fueling anti-semitism and refused to admit more than 80.000, most German Jews had no where to go

Answer 14

confrence of all the worlds leaders, wondering what to do about the Jews, no one wanted to fuel anti-semitism in their country, they also feared that they were enemey agents and it was all just a setup, also isolationism and not wanting to get involved bc still hurt by the depression and the Jews would take jobs

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average Jew had little chance of reaching the United States, but 100,000 other refugees were accepted into the US because they were really smart

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German ship left with 937 jewish passengers, went to Cuba originally, didn't allow entry, then went to Miami, most had immigration paper but coast guard preventd them from dembarking, the ship was forced to return to Europe, more than half of the passengers were later killed in the Holocaust 4 countries took some of them in though

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it was quickly taken over, from the jews they took away basic rights, forced to wear star of david, closure of schools and synagogues, forbiden to walk on parts of the streets, violence and exectutions became daily occurences

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mainly in northern districts, surrounded by brick wall and closed off, 1.3 square miles and closing people had to move to get out of the ghetto or get in

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general governor hans frank issued death penatly on people who leave the designated district without authorization, and those who knew that they were hiding jews

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people were rounded up to use and laborers, there was disease, death and food shortages, underground education

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akiton reinhardt, they would ship the jews out to extermination camps

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very few remained in ghettos, jewish combat organization and jewish military union smuggled guns in, when nazis came into the camp wanting to completely erase everything, the jews fought back but were quickly defeated and the whole place was burned to the ground.

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leader of SS (protection squads or schutzstaffel) elite unit of nazi army, he was the second most powerful man, right under hitler, implimented final solution, created system of concentration camps and established eisatzgruppen

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special military units that followed german army during invasions and occupations, "mobile killing squads" role was to carry out mass shootings, taken to killing sites and shots and dug out whole for them there

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mass shootings took too many supplies and hurt moral of army, special gas vans were made, pumped carbon monoxide into van

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ss lieutenant gernal reinhard heydrich, commander of the einsatzgruppen, convened 15 nazi leaders to meet outside a villa in berlin - goal was to find the final solution to the jewish question - final solution was made in 90 minutes, 11 million jews condemed to death, not a single person objected during the discussions

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jews rounded up in ghetttos, used as slaver labors, survivers were sent to resettlement areas in the east, many died on the train with no food or water, overworked, starved, beaten, but could not kill fast enough, found poinesss Kyklon B, made six extermination camps to carry out final solution

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they had three camps, including killing center, when they got there they went through a process of selection, many sent for special "treatment", which included women, children under 16, the sick and ederly, healthy workers were sent to be overworked

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Josef mengele was one of the doctors to preform medical expirements that were inhumane, tested mass sterilization methods, killed and dissected, preformed unneccesary prosedures with no drugs, and preformed on twins.

Answer 30

those were weren't chosen to go to labor camps were sent to gas chambers, they went into the room, they were told to undress and then they were led into another room and they would put showers in there that would do Zyklon B, then the laborers, that were jews, would remove the bodies. they would also cut womens hair for furnature, and remove jewrly and dental work also beforhand, then bodies were creamated because it hid evidence and buring had the problem of smell, bones and ashes were put into rivers

Answer 31

they had reports but nothing much, already in our own war, polish government sent reports of mass murders but we just couldn't believe it, allies went through camps and saw everything first hand, first camp to be freed in majdanek

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buildings and records were destroyed, in auschwitz survivors were forced to go on a march and camp was abandoned, people died during this, when allies came, they found tons of human hair, clothing, and corpses

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22 prominent and influential nazi officers, government officials, and party leaders were put on trial, chose nuremberg for location because focal point of nazi propaganda rallies the defendent (nazis) did not have any say in the selection of the judges and could not appeal the appointment of any of the justices, and they were charged with charges that had never ben legally defined in international law, many claimed that the charges were created after they were committed and therefore invalid, also said that other countries did the same things, like us in the japenese

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most survivors had to rebuuild their entire lives, first step was medical care and food, second step was housing, third step was finding jobs

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used during nuremberg trials, an agreement between the allied powers, set the procedures for the trial, the london charter created the international military tribunal which was the court that held the nuremberg trials, each of the four allied nations would appoint judges and a prosecution team

Answer 36

charged with one or more of the following crimes, crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity.