Holocaust Test Flashcards
Eugenics
selectively picking humans to breed them for certain characteristics
Sterilization
surgery to make a human or animal unable to produce offspring
What standard needs to be met for someone to become sterilized?
hereditary disease, mentally retarded, schizophrenics, epileptic, alcoholics
Who can recommend someone to be sterilized?
state physician, inmates in hospitals, head leaders of nursing homes, etc.
What is the only situation one can refuse to be sterilized?
if the person applied willingly to be sterilized
What is the purpose of sterilization?
To prevent the production of humans that are mutilated (worth less than others that are healthy). The Nazis wanted healthy stable citizens to fight for their country.
Euthanasia
intentionally ending a life to end their suffering/pain
Rome-Berlin Axis
Hitler signed an alliance with Italy. It basically said to ally each other if they were attacked by a communist country.
Munich Conference
Hitler demands for Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. A meeting with Britain, France, Italy, and Germany.
Anschluss
Hitler annexed Austria to Germany. Hitler threatened Austria to invade them, Austria eventually gives in and gives their land to Germany.
Germany gains in order from earliest to latest occurring: Rhineland, Sudetenland, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia.
Rhineland, Austria, Sudetenland, Czech, Poland
What was the T-4 program?
A program to exterminate the mentally ill and handicapped. To “cleanse the Aryan race”
What justification (excuse) was used for the sterilization programs?
To protect the bloodline of Germany, criminality, intelligence, and poverty were supposedly passed down.
What justification (excuse) was used for the T-4 program?
Eliminate the financial burden
What policy was created between the British and France used with Hitler?
Appeasement
What were the primary responsibilities of the SS?
protect Hitler and other Nazi leaders, identify ethnicity, population policy, and intelligence collection
Full name of the SS? Established date? Who was in charge?
Schutzstaffel, 1925, Heinrich Himmler.
What were the 5 largest ghettos? Which country?
Lódz, Kraków, Lublin, and Lvov, Warsaw
How many people roughly were killed in Einsatzgruppen?
1.5 million
Describe the ghettos?
Filthy, shocking, overcrowded, unsanitary, poor, ill health, unkept, etc.
List the 3 types of ghettos
Closed, open, and destruction ghettos
What is the difference between open ghettos and closed ghettos?
Open ghettos are used for temporary use, and closed ghettos are where prisoners go when they are permanently living there.
Describe an open ghetto
no walls or fences, no restrictions on entering or exiting
Describe a closed ghetto
closed off by walls or fences
