Holocaust Flashcards
Anti-Semitism
Prejudice against Jewish people
The Nuremberg Laws
A series of anti-semitic and racist laws in Nazi Germany
The Final Solution
The decision to kill the Jews
Einsatzgruppen
Execution squads that went out in mobile vans which they used to gas the Jews. They would also shoot them
Gestapo
Nazi police who rounded up Jews to take them to death camps
Adolf Hitler
Leader of the Nazi party in Germany
Heinrich Himmler
Leader of the SS and the cheif Architect of the Holocaust
9/10th November 1938
Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) Nazis attacked Jewish synagogues, shops and other buildings and arrested thousands of Jews
20th January 1942
Nazi leaders meet at the Wansee Conference to agree to plan for the mass murder of the Jewish