Hitler and the Holocaust

Question 1

Where do we know Hitlers plans for WW2 from, that he personally wrote?

Answer 1

His book ‘Mein Kampf’ that he wrote in prison

Question 2

What was the Einsatzgruppen group?

Answer 2

They were an ss killing group and were set to kill Soviet union officials and Jews

Question 3

What was SS General Reinhard Heydrich tasked with in 1941?

In 1942 he had to come up with the answer to this, what was it called?

Answer 3

He was asked to find the answer to the ‘complete solution to the Jewish question’
In 1942 at the Wannsee conference they came up with the ‘Final Solution’ and extermination camps started to be built

Question 4

Where were the extermination camps first being built and what was the biggest?

Answer 4

They were being built all throughout Poland with the biggest being Auschwitz-Birkneau

Question 5

What were the extermination camps used for?

Answer 5

The mass genocide of Jews

Question 6

What is the amount of Jews which were killed? and what was used to kill them?

Answer 6

6 million Jewish people were killed and they were killed by Zyklon B gas while being told they were to have a shower