Holocaust Flashcards
Anti-Semitism
Prejudice against Jews
Aryans
German master race
Nuremberg Laws
Laws depriving Jews of citizenship, jobs, and property
Einsatzgruppen
German death squads
Kristallnacht
“Night of broken Glass”; attacks on Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues
Wannersee Conference
Held to determine the fate of the Jewish population
The Jewish Problem
Hitler’s dilemma of what to do with the Jewish population in Germany and Europe
Final Solution
Hitler’s plan to eliminate Jewish race
Genocide
Eliminating an entire race of people
“Sub-humans”
Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, E. Europeans, mentally/physically disabled
Eugenics or Racial Hygiene
Efforts by Nazis to cleanse or purify the Aryan race
Natural Selection
Survival of the fittest
Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka, Bergen Belsen, Dachau
Nazi death camps
Zyklon B
Poison gas used in death camps
Number of Jews killed?
6 million