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Jewish persecution: War and Genocide 1939-45 Flashcards

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What did Hitler say in his notorious reichstag speech Jan 1939

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He warned that any future war could lead to “ the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe”

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What restrictions were placed on Jews in September 1939?

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Radio sets were removed from German Jews, a curfew imposed and denied rations for clothing, footwear and certain foodstuffs

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What Ghettos were Jews sent to in January 1940(3)?

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Warsaw, Lvov and Lodz where used as slave labour

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When and where was the first sealed Ghetto established?

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Lodz April 1940

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When were he first ghettos established?

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October 1939

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What were ghettoes initially set up for?

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temporary holding bays while the NAzis decided what to do w Jews but lasted much longer

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How bad was overcrowding in ghettos?

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Warsaw held 500 000 people but was only 3.5 square miles in size
Jewish populations from all over Europe packed into v limited areas of main polish cities

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In Ghettos there was the rapid spread of diseases like hat

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Typhus and Tuberculosis

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What was heating like in ghettos?

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Limited access to fuel caused hardship and deaths during harsh polish winters

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How many died in the Warsaw Ghetto between 1940-42?

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100 000

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Tell me about the Warsaw Ghetto

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100 000 ppl died in it from 1940-42

It held 500 000 people whilst only being 3.5sq miles in size

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How many Jewish people died in Ghettos due to disease, malnutrition and ill treatment?

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about 450 000

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What put 3million Jews under Nazi control?

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Germany;s rapid victory in Poland autumn 1939

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What did Himmler do after the invasion of Poland to the Jews

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Ordered the deportation of Jews from Northwest Poland to Nazi-occupied Poland

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What was Himmler’s role in regards to JEws

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He was he Reich Commissar for Strengthening the German Race

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How many Ghettos did the Nazis establish and where during WW2?

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Established over 300 ghettoes in Poland, Romania, Czechoclovakia, USSR and Hungary

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What did the Jewish Council in Ghettoes have to do

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manage the ghettoes and decide who was to be deported from ghettoes to extermination camps

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Who was the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto and what did he do when put on the Jewish Council?

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Adam Czerniakow, committed suicide rather than consign others to death

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What was the Madagascar Plan of 1940

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IDea to solve the ‘Jewish question’.

Involved resettling europe’s J pop onto Madagascar Island, essentially making a big ghetto

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Why was the Madagascar plan stopped?

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Royal Navy blocked G’s access to seas

21
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When was operation Barbarossa

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22 June 1941

22
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Within 8mts of Op Barbarossa, how many Js murdered?

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700 000

23
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What was a decisive development in the racial war and hastened a more radical approach to the J question?

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Invasion of Russia that brought millions of Js under Nazi rule

24
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What did Heydrich signal to Einsatzgruppen commanders in June 1941?

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mass killings of Soviet Jews was the prelude to the destruction of European Jewry as a whole

25
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When and who to did Heydrich signal that the mass killings of Soviet Jews was a prelude to the destruction of European Jewry?

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June 1941, Heydrich signalled this to Einsatzgruppen commanders

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What were the Einsatzgruppen?

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Mobile killing squads of SS men, numbering 4000

27
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What did the Einsatzgruppen do?

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moved in behind advancing armies, rounding up and executing Jews and communists in mass shootings

28
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What was one of the worst Einsatzgruppen atrocities?

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The massacre of the Ukrainian village Babi Yar in September 1941 where 34 000 Jews were murdered in one week

29
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When and what was the Wannsee Conference?

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January 1942 the Wannsee Conference took place in Berlin, oversaw by Reynhardt Heydrich and attended by 15 leading Nazis who agreed upon plans to exterminate Europe’s 11million Jews

30
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Who was Reynhardt Heydrich?

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Head of the security police and SS

31
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When was the solution to the ‘Jewish Question’ decided?

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Jan 1942 at the Wannsee Conference

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Who attended the Wannsee conference

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Reps of the SS, NAzi party and various Reich ministries

33
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what were the extermination camps

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where Jews could be sent to be killed with gas chambers with ovens to destroy the bodies
almost all in Poland and process under Eichmann’s control

34
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who gained from J persecution eg.

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banks and businesses

IG färben which provided the gas Zyklon B for the death camps

35
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Why did people not act against anti-semitism (5)

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  • not believe true art death camps
  • J ppl unpopular w mant Jews
  • fear of Gestapo and SS
  • some gained from J persecution
  • felt powerless
36
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Eg. ghetto to death camp

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Auschwitz expanded to incl a sub-camp Brikenau where gas chambers and crematoria installed

37
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Give 3 egs of death camps

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Treblinka, Sobibor and Chelmo

38
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When were first death camps built

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Spring 1942 though Auschwitz-Birkenau not ready until 1943

39
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who and how many died at Auschwitz

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1million Jews died at Auschwitz as well as 100 000 Roma people

40
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Out of the 3million Polish Jews, how many survived WW2?

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4000

41
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How many European Jews died in total

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6 million

42
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Why and when were the death camps forced to close

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After summer ‘44 often because of inmate revolts or advancing Soviet army

43
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What and when did Himmler order to try win a degree of clemency with the Allies

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November 1944 Himmler ordered an end to the genocide of the Jews and the destruction of gas chambers and crematoria

44
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what were ‘death marches’

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With war entering final stage SS desperately tried to move death camp inmates to more securely held territory

45
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Death marches stats

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Overall 59 death marches, about 50% people who took part in which died

46
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What was the most famous death march

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Auschwitz to Wodzoslav January 1945, 66 000 marched and 25% died en route

47
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How many Jews were there in G 1933 vs 1945

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1933 600 000 js in G
1945 25 000 Js in G
Entire Jewish communities disappeared acrosss Germany and Eastern europe

48
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Who was one of the last to speak out an=gainst anti-semitism

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Pastor Martin Niemoller

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