Jewish persecution: War and Genocide 1939-45 Flashcards
What did Hitler say in his notorious reichstag speech Jan 1939
He warned that any future war could lead to “ the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe”
What restrictions were placed on Jews in September 1939?
Radio sets were removed from German Jews, a curfew imposed and denied rations for clothing, footwear and certain foodstuffs
What Ghettos were Jews sent to in January 1940(3)?
Warsaw, Lvov and Lodz where used as slave labour
When and where was the first sealed Ghetto established?
Lodz April 1940
When were he first ghettos established?
October 1939
What were ghettoes initially set up for?
temporary holding bays while the NAzis decided what to do w Jews but lasted much longer
How bad was overcrowding in ghettos?
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
In Ghettos there was the rapid spread of diseases like hat
Typhus and Tuberculosis
What was heating like in ghettos?
Limited access to fuel caused hardship and deaths during harsh polish winters
How many died in the Warsaw Ghetto between 1940-42?
100 000
Tell me about the Warsaw Ghetto
100 000 ppl died in it from 1940-42
It held 500 000 people whilst only being 3.5sq miles in size
How many Jewish people died in Ghettos due to disease, malnutrition and ill treatment?
about 450 000
What put 3million Jews under Nazi control?
Germany;s rapid victory in Poland autumn 1939
What did Himmler do after the invasion of Poland to the Jews
Ordered the deportation of Jews from Northwest Poland to Nazi-occupied Poland
What was Himmler’s role in regards to JEws
He was he Reich Commissar for Strengthening the German Race
How many Ghettos did the Nazis establish and where during WW2?
Established over 300 ghettoes in Poland, Romania, Czechoclovakia, USSR and Hungary
What did the Jewish Council in Ghettoes have to do
manage the ghettoes and decide who was to be deported from ghettoes to extermination camps
Who was the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto and what did he do when put on the Jewish Council?
Adam Czerniakow, committed suicide rather than consign others to death
What was the Madagascar Plan of 1940
IDea to solve the ‘Jewish question’.
Involved resettling europe’s J pop onto Madagascar Island, essentially making a big ghetto
Why was the Madagascar plan stopped?
Royal Navy blocked G’s access to seas
When was operation Barbarossa
22 June 1941
Within 8mts of Op Barbarossa, how many Js murdered?
700 000
What was a decisive development in the racial war and hastened a more radical approach to the J question?
Invasion of Russia that brought millions of Js under Nazi rule
What did Heydrich signal to Einsatzgruppen commanders in June 1941?
mass killings of Soviet Jews was the prelude to the destruction of European Jewry as a whole
