Holocaust Stages Flashcards
What were the four solutions to the Jewish ‘problem’
Persecution and emigration
The ghettos
Einsatzgruppen
Death by gas
Describe the pre war solution nazis had for Jews
Force Jews to leave the country, beaten and humiliated, like being forced to scrub the pavement , mass lootings,
What did the Nazis create to get Jews to leave the country
Central office for Jewish emigration
How many Jews emigrated in two years
110000
What was the women in gold painting
A gaustau Klimt painting that was token by Nazis and returned to the rightful owner 2006
What was the second solution and what did they do
Moving Jews to reservations , polish jews were concentrated into ghettos due to lack of land, isolated them away from society , died of typhus and starvation,
What was the most known ghetto and what were the conditions
Warsaw ghetto coasted of 445000 Jews, 15 people per room, walled in , 300 cals a day
Overview of the Nazis third solution
Einsatzgruppen, local recruits, ss, police, rounded up Jews after following troops into Russian territory and communists and took them to a secluded area , forced to dig a pit and lined up and shot. 90 percent were jews
What was the largest mass murder
Babyn Yar
What was the Nazis fourth and final solution and give an overview
Death camps, journey was in cattle trucks, terrible conditions, many days, some died
Fit to work sent to factories , rest went straight to the gas chambers =3/4
What happened when they were sent to the gas chambers
Stripped off all belongings , bought into a room that looked like s shower, zyklon b gas dropped in, they’d be dad within 20 minutes, soldiers would loot bodies afterwards
How many were murdered at aushwitz
1.1 mil
