life in nazi germany: holocaust.

Question 1

when did the nazis invade europe?

Answer 1

1938-1945

Question 2

by 1945 what percentage of the jewish population in europe and in Poland had been killed?

Answer 2

europe: 53%
Poland: 91%

Question 3

how many stages were there to get rid of jews?

Answer 3

3

Question 4

what was the first stage?

Answer 4

persecution and emigration.

Question 5

when was the first stage?

Answer 5

1938-1939

Question 6

what was the second stage?

Answer 6

concentration in ghettos.

Question 7

when was the second stage?

Answer 7

1939-1941

Question 8

what was the third stage?

Answer 8

final solution- mass murder.

Question 9

when was the last stage?

Answer 9

1941-1945

Question 10

stage 1: when and how did it start?

Answer 10

1938 hitler invaded austria

Question 11

stage 1: why did hitler invade Austria apart from to expand germany?

Answer 11

jewish population of 192,000 of which 167,0p0 lived in vienna alone.

Question 12

stage 1: instantly as the nazis invaded austria what did they do to the jewish population and what was an example? were the more desirable population supporting the nazis and how do we know?

Answer 12

beat them up and humiliated them. looted from homes.
eg: forced to scrub pavements.
yes- in photos they could be seen watching them scrub the pavements.
citizens were the first initially looted from the jewish homes then the SS did.

Question 13

stage 1: as a result of the brutality faced by jews in Austria what did they do a d why couldn’t that be sustained?

Answer 13

emigrated.
would eventually move into the land they moved into and need to remove them from that.

Question 14

stage 1: did the nazis support the emigration of jews out of austria and how do the figures show that?

Answer 14

yes. 110,000 jews emigrated in 2 years.

Question 15

stage 1: other than the nazis encouraging the emigration of jews out of austria what else encouraged them to go?

Answer 15

persecution.

Question 16

stage 1: what was the combination of persecution and encouraged emigration known as, when, and after what?

Answer 16

Vienna model. war after invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939.

Question 17

stage 2: using the example of łódź: when was it set up?

Answer 17

1940

Question 18

stage 2: how did łódź look?

Answer 18

completely sealed off. 1 and 1/2 square miles.

Question 19

stage 2: how many people were there per room?

Answer 19

8-10

Question 20

stage 2: what was there a lack of and what were they not connected to?

Answer 20

running water, heat. sewage or gas

Question 21

stage 2: what was an impact of the conditions?

Answer 21

overcrowding and hunger.

Question 22

stage 2: how many jews died due to the conditions?

Answer 22

43,000

Question 23

stage 2: what was the role of the jewish conseil?

Question 24

stage 2: how did the jewish conseil act?

Answer 24

threatens with death by nazis if they didn’t go in their favour but tried to do all they could for the jews.

Question 25

stage 2: why did they make people in the ghettos work?

Answer 25

make them as useful as possible.

Question 26

stage 2: what would the ghettos do to those how were sick and therefore couldn’t work?

Answer 26

got taken to be killed.

Question 27

stage 2: what did the factories in the ghettos produce?

Answer 27

essentials.

Question 28

stage 2: over what age did people have to work?

Answer 28

10

Question 29

stage 2: those in ghettos in 1942, where were they transferred to in september?

Answer 29

extermination camps.

Question 30

stage 2: what does it mean to liquidise the ghettos?

Answer 30

kill the children under 10, ill or the elderly.

Question 31

stage 3: phase 1: what was it known as?

Answer 31

einsatzgruppen

Question 32

stage 3: phase 1: where and when did the mass murders of jews begin?

Answer 32

nazis invasion of the soviet union. 1941 june

Question 33

stage 3: phase 1: what were the einsatzgruppen and who were in them?

Answer 33

mobile killing units- SS, police and auxiliary units.

Question 34

stage 3: phase 1: how many groups were there in the mobile killing units and how many men did they contain?

Answer 34

4. A, B, C, D. 500-1000 men

Question 35

stage 3: phase 1: how did the mobile killing units kill people?

Answer 35

as they reached the villages and towns rounded up jews and communists took them to secluded areas such as woodland where the victims were forced to dig large pit then were shot.

Question 36

stage 3: phase 1: how many jews did the mobile killing unit kill?

Answer 36

90% jews. around q million people.

Question 37

stage 3: phase 2: why did the nazis start killing people through the use of gas?

Answer 37

greater number could be killed and less psychological i pact on SS soldiers during killings.

Question 38

stage 3: phase 2: what was operation Reinhard and when?

Answer 38

autumn 1941. extermination of all jews in general government

Question 39

stage 3: phase 2: during operation Reinhard what 3 death camps were set up and when?

Answer 39

belzec- march
sobibor- may
treblinka- july

Question 40

stage 3: phase 2: how did the newly formed camps work?

Answer 40

murderd jews in gas chambers.

Question 41

stage 3: phase 2: how many officers worked at the new camps, where were they?

Answer 41

20-35. wooded areas away from large towns.

Question 42

stage 3: phase 2: how were people transported from the ghettos to the camps, then what was done to them once they arrived?

Answer 42

deported from ghettos in cattle trucks to arrive at a train station. stripped of possessions and clothing, showered, tattooed a number, hair shaved and issued blue and white stripped clothing.

Question 43

stage 3: phase 2: what did the gas chambers look like?

Answer 43

showers.

Question 44

stage 3: phase 2: who removed the bodies from the gas chambers, how long were these people expected to live for and why?

Answer 44

other jews. 6-9 months. saw what the nazis were doing/ knew too much

Question 45

stage 3: phase 2: how many polish jews were killed in death camps?

Answer 45

end of war, 1.7 million

Question 46

stage 3: phase 2: resistance and issues: when was the a group of jews who rose up against nazis, what were they able to do, what positive thing happened, but why couldn’t it stop the holocaust?

Answer 46

sobibor 1944. killed 11 SS guards. 300 escaped. isolated acts weren’t enough

Question 47

stage 3: phase 2: rumours: what did the nazis do to stop mass panic towards jews?

Answer 47

tricked into thinking they’d been resettled in the east.

Question 48

stage 3: phase 2: rumours: how did it become apparent what the nazis were doing?

Answer 48

du ours spread into the ghettos