Jewish policy 1940-41

Question 1

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 1

-July 1941
-initial success: East Poland, Baltic States, Ukraine, W. USSR
-war in the east was seen as war of racial annihilation

Question 2

formation of ghettos

Answer 2

-3 mill Soviet Jews under Nazi control
-first in Lodz (320k Jews)
-Jewish Council of Elders (responsible for food etc)
-exploited through forced labour

Question 3

Conditions of ghettos

Answer 3

-15 ppl in an apartment, 6 per room
-lack of running water, food, medicine
-typhus etc spread quick
-black market for food etc

Question 4

Warsaw Ghetto

Answer 4

-largest
-380,000 jews
-30% of Warsaw’s population, only 2.4% of the city’s area
-9.2 people to each room
-1940-42 disease, starvation, typhoid
-43,000 residents died in 1941

Question 5

Einsatzgruppen

Answer 5

-4 groups (600-1000 men) followed Ger into USSR
-mass shootings/ deportations
-15k killed jews and intelligentsia in Poland
-7000 jews killed in Poland in 1939
-40k men involved in the killings helped by locals of countries
-in the baltic, Special Group A killed 250k Jews and Special Group B shot 45k in 1941