Holocaust Flashcards
What groups were targeted due to racial Inferiority?
Jews, Roma, Slavs, disabled
What was the holocaust?
The systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million Jews and 5million other undesirables by the nazi regime and its collaborators
What groups were targeted due to ideology or behavior (ideas and beliefs)
Communist, socialist, Jehovah’s witnesses, homosexuals, opponents of nazis,
As the nazis conquered Europe what expanded with it?
The holocaust
What were 2 ways the Germans oppressed the Jews
Laws and decrees stripping Jews of citizenship and legal rights.
Ghettos
What is a ghetto?
districts(often closed off) in which nazis concentrated the regional Jewish population
Miserable conditions
Temporary holding place
What were the toe types of camps?
Labor camps
Extermination camps
What was the nickname of these camps?
“The final solution to the Jewish problem”
What are SS Einsatzgruppen
- “death squads” or “mobile killing units”
What happened to the camps as the allies began to push Germany back in Germany?
many camps were liberated
What happened to the POW after the war
Thousands of holocaust survivors had no home or family to return to
Where did many of the Jews flee to after the war
Many Jewish immigrated to British Palestine, ultimately resulting in the creation of modern day Israel
What were the Nuremberg trials
- 1945-46: some prominent nazis are brought to trial for war crimes and “crimes against humanity”
