Nazi Germany and the holocaust 1933 to 1945

Question 1

When was Nazi Germany and the holocaust

Answer 1

1933 to 1945

Question 2

What was Hitler’s ideology

Answer 2

that the superior race should only exist- based on Darwinism. This means that Aryans should be allowed to live- blue eyes, blond hair, tall, muscular

Question 3

What minorities were not allowed to live

Answer 3

Jews, disabled, homosexuals

Question 4

Why were these minorities not allowed to live?

Answer 4

Hitler believe that his ‘empire’ should work and not want to work, so no alcoholics, prostitutes
Hitler wanted more ‘Aryans’ to be born so no lesbians and gays
Any people who prioritized God and not the country must go just like the Jews
Hitler made sure that his population were strong and healthy so no sick people such as the diabled

Question 5

What did the Germans do in 1933

Answer 5

The Germans in 1933 tried to boycott Jewish shops then handing them over to the Aryans to take over

Question 6

What did the Germans do in 1935

Answer 6

In 1935 the Nuremberg laws were passed which were to prevent marriage between Jew and Germans

Question 7

What did the Germans do in 1938

Answer 7

In 1938 the Kristallnacht occured which means the breaking of glass. Synagogues were burnt and Jewish shops were smashed. 100 Jews killed and 30,000 arrested. They also had to register the names.

Question 8

What did the Germans do in 1939

Answer 8

Jews were taken to live in ghettos after invasion of Poland

Question 9

What did the Germans do in 1941

Answer 9

In 1941 the USSR would round up the Jews and start to shoot them and they had to wear the Star of David to be identified.

Question 10

What happened in 1942-1945

Answer 10

In 1942-1945 the final solution was made and that was to send the Jews to concentration/ extermination camps. They were forced to work all day w/no food and then if they got too weak they would be killed by tear gas. They were striped of hair, gold filings and anything valuable. They were then burnt in ovens.

Question 11

Why did the outbreak of war change Nazis policies towards Jews

Answer 11

Germany invaded Poland on September 1st 1939 and rounded up many Jews in ghettos and then later into concentration camps.

Question 12

What were ghettos

Answer 12

The ghettos were neighborhoods for Jews. It was very restricted with no water and food entering the ghettos. They were set up to contain all the Jews together and slowly they were sent to extermination/ concentration camps. Ghettos lead to slow death. Many uprisings happened but the main one was in 1943 in the ghetto of Warsaw

Question 13

What happened in The Uprising

Answer 13

April 1943 the Germans circled the entire ghetto. They had blocked the sewage beforehand so no Jew was able to escape. They burst in with a tank which forced the Jews to leave from their shooting positions uphigh, so they could hide in shelters and basements. They set the houses on fire and ended the uprising

Question 14

What was the social reason the Germans cooperated with the Nazis

Answer 14

The thought of the perfect race was appealing, the Aryans
Brainwashed by propaganda
Families would get money for raising families

Question 15

what was the political reason the Germans cooperated with the Nazis

Answer 15

The idea of a saving party was appealing to see Germany great again
They wanted Nazism as a possibility of something new

Question 16

what was the economic reason the Germans cooperated with the Nazis

Answer 16

Hitler was willing to fic the country’s economy

Bribing- if a German told where a Jewish was hiding he was given a Jewish shop

Question 17

What were concentration camps

Answer 17

They were camps where minorities wouldn’t be given food or water and would have to work long hours to make weapons when they grew too weak or old they were gassed and striped of hair, gold filings and anything valuable. They were then burnt in ovens

Question 18

What were extermination camps

Answer 18

They were camps where prisoners would die in gas chambers upon arrival. They would go there by death trains.

Question 19

Which was the biggest concentration/extermination camp

Answer 19

Aushwitz

Question 20

What methods did concentration camps use

Answer 20

They used the method of hunger and physical exhaustion, lack of clothes, rest, medical care, poor sanitary conditions in Aushwitz SS troops would separate prisoners if they would go to work or to gas chamber . They separated them like Age separation, working separation, religious separation.