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1
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The Holocaust was fought for what?

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Racial purity

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When did the path to the Holocaust start?

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BEFORE WWII

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What was Hitler’s ideology for the war?

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  • wanted a racial pure culture
  • wanted to eliminate everyone who had imperfections
  • specifically blamed the Jews for the failure of WWI and for all of their problems
  • believed in anti-semitism
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What started the path to the Holocaust?

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Kristallnacht

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What does kristallnacht stand for –

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“Night of broken glass”

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Where did kristallnacht take place?

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Germany, Austria, and other German areas

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What was the purpose of kristallnacht?

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It was coordinated deadly attacks on Jews

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What happened to the Jews during this?

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Their stores, homes, &synagogues were destroyed and most were arrested
(First time Nazis attacked the Jews on a large scale)

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Aryanization policies –

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Laws that excluded or removed them from economic and social life

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What laws did the Jews have to follow in the aryanization policies –

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  • no Jewish business
  • Jewish children could not go to German schools
  • could not have a car/license
  • could not get into movie theaters/concerts/halls
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Jewish cemeteries were ______________ and Jews were sent to ______________.

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Vandalized; camps

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12
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What was kritallnacht the turning point for?

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Jewish persecution

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What happened during the invasion of Poland?

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Nazis gained control of most of Europe and “germanized” the land through ruthless tactics

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What else was Germany doing during the war?

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  • taking Jewish property
  • requiring Jews to wear armbands (star of David)
  • established ghettos and forced-labor camps
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Who was part of Hitler’s “sub-human” group?

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  • European Jews
  • anyone with disabilities
  • gypsies
  • mentally ill
  • homosexuals
  • communists, socialists
  • & any other group termed undesirable
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16
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What is Hitler’s Plan called?

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The Final Solution

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17
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What was the plan in the Final Solution?

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To exterminate the Jews

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18
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Genocide –

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Deliberate mass murder of an entire race

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Systemic murder –

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The Holocaust (sacrifice by fire)

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What do the Germans do to the Jews?

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Round them up and take them to concentration camps

21
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What were concentration camps also known as –

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Death camps

22
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What was the life expectancy of someone at the camps?

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6 weeks

23
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When the Jews first got to the camps what happened?

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Many were immediately gassed

especially women, children, and the weak

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Humiliation –

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Heads shaved, stripped, had numbers as tattoos on their arms, stripped prison uniforms

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What were the Jews forced to do at the camps?

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Meaningless, hard labor

26
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How did many of the Jews die at the camps?

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  • starved to death
  • died of malnutrition and disease
  • some underwent painful, inhumane,”medical” experiments
27
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How were the conditions of the camps?

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Brutal

28
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Why did this continue?

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  • nazi propaganda
  • totalitarianism
  • disbelief
  • most people pretended not to notice
29
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How did the Germans “hide” what they were doing with the Jews?

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-buried their articles in the New York Times
-put articles on the back page
-left out key details (never said the word Jew)
(Most people did not know it was genocide-but some did and did nothing)

30
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Liberation –

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Set free

31
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What happened when the Allies started to sweep through Europe?

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They started to encounter the concentration camps– set people free

32
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What did the Allies see at these camps?

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  • (for the first time) the horrific atrocities committed on their fellow man
  • found unspeakable conditions
  • piles of corpses
  • unearthed mass graves
33
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All of the survivors looked like what –

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Skeletons

34
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After the liberation of the camps –

A

The full scope of Nazi horrors were seen

35
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What did the Germans try to do when the Allies neared them?

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Tried to hide the evidence by demolishing camps and burning corpses

36
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What was found in the warehouses near the camps?

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Personal belongings of the victims

37
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How many Jews died at the end of WWII?

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6 million Jews (90% of Jewish population in Europe)

38
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Most of the Jews were –

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Executed, tortured, gassed, starved to death, worked to death, but some escaped

39
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Nuremberg trials –

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13 trials that tried against Nazis as criminals

40
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They crimes the Germans made were known as?

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Crimes against humanity

41
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What happened to the German criminals –

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Most were executed/convicted

42
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Who was part of the German criminals?

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Highly ranked generals, lawyers and doctors (anyone involved)

43
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What happened to Hitler and the top two officials?

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  • never brought to trial
  • did not come to justice
  • they all committed suicide
44
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What was the impact of the Nuremberg Trials?

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-established international law

45
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What was the international law called?

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Untied Nations Genocide Convention & Universal Declaration of Human Rights

46
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Precedent for –

A

Japanese WWII criminals

47
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Established of tribunals for war crimes committed in the former ___________ & in ___________.

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Yugoslavia; Rwanda

48
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What does the word Holocaust mean?

A

Sacrifice by fire

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