Holocaust Flashcards
Anti-semitism meaning
Anti-Jew feelings and actions
3 reasons why the nazis hated the Jews
- The nazis believed that the Jews were the reason they lost WW1.
- The Jews are taking the German citizens jobs and stealing their money.
- Hitler had influential people in his life who made him think this way, for example his dad
What are the Nuremberg laws?
The Nuremberg laws were the laws brought in by the nazis that were antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany.
What is dachau
Dachau was the first concentration camp in Nazi Germany in 1933.
What is zyklon B gas
Zyklon b is the gas the nazis used to gas the people in the concentration camps
Arbeit macht frei what does this mean and where was it
This is the phrase on the entrance to the concentration camps and it means work sets you free to make out the camps weren’t as a bad as they really are as you can get released but really you were just killed
What was the Wannsee conference
The Wannsee conference was the meeting were the nazis decided to carry out the final solution
What were cattle wagons used for in the holocaust
Jews would be crammed into cattle wagons for days of travelling to the concentration camps, there would be so many crammed into one some people would die before they get there and it would be that squished there dead bodies would stay upright!
What is the holocaust
The holocaust was the genocide to European Jews during ww2
How many Jews lived in Germany in 1933
400,000
What were the 2 Nuremberg laws
The reich of citizenship which means the Jews weren’t citizens and were ‘state subjects’ and it was illegal for a Jew to marry or exchange sexual relations with an aryan.
What is kristalnacht
It is the “night of broken glass” the nazis beat up the Jews and and destroyed windows and Jew property on this night.
20,000 Jews deported
91 killed
When was the Wannsee conference
1942
What is the final solution
The code name to the nazis plan to eradicate all Jews.
What were the gas chambers disguised as
Shower rooms
What happened to people before they went into the gas chambers
They were stripped from everything they own, they took away their clothes and shaved their hair off.
What were the people split into as soon as they arrived at a camp
They were split into 2 queues
1 queue was people who were fit to work
Another queue was people who couldn’t work and they were sent straight to the gas chambers.
But some people were set aside so the nazis could experiment on them.
Who held the Nuremberg trials
GB, USA, the Soviet Union and france
What were the 4 changing défiants
War crimes, crimes against peace, crimes against humanity and conspiracy to commit any of the foregoing crimes.
Wannsee conference date
1942
When were the Nuremberg laws introduced
1935
When did kristalnacht happen
1938
How did prisoners do use self expression
They produced artwork, read and write poetry and tell stories. This showed how fragile human life is
What’s ere Nazi racial policies
The Nazi policies were made to make a master race which was called the “aryan” race. They introduced laws eg:Nuremberg laws
Why did Nazis persecute Jews
Because they believed Jews were coming to steal jobs and it was their fault that the Germans lost WW1
How’d Nazis persecute Jews
The Nazis started persecution using propaganda and took tiny steps further and further to more extreme things to persecute Jews and would eventually come up with the final solution.
In what year did the Nuremberg laws occur
1935
In what year did the Wannsee conference occur
1942
When did kristalnacht occur
1938
When did the liberation of Auschwitz occur
1945
When did Dachau open
1933
When did the boycott of Jewish shops happen
1933
What is the boycott of Jewish shops
It was when the “stormtroopers” put up signs on Jewish shops stating “Germans defend yourselves! Don’t buy from the Jews”
Name 5 groups the Nazis persecuted
Jews, Black people, gay and lesbian people, disabled people and polish and other Eastern European people.
What year did the final solution take place
1941
What is the Nuremberg trials
(They are different to the Nuremberg laws)
The Nuremberg trails are the trials the allies held in 1945 after the war and charged the Germans for the war.
