Nazi Jewish Policy 1940-1941 Flashcards
(16 cards)
How was Propaganda necessary to radicalise Jewish Policy?
=featured explicit persuasion that Jews were a “plague” to be “eradicated” rather than just removed
State two examples of extremist propaganda?
1940
-Jud Sub released September 1940, over 20 million watched =antisemitism films
=Der ewidge Jude (The enternal Jew)
released Nov 1940, documentary style film, presenting Jews as uncivilised, commercial flop but regularly screened by Hitler youth
What countries were taken between May and June 1940?
France, Low Countries and Norway
What countries were taken in Spring 1941?
Greece and Albania
What operation was launched in June 1941?
Operation Barbarossa (invasion of USSR)
Why was the occupation of other countries so significant to Nazi racial policy?
Millions of more asocials, jews and “undesirables”
What was the initial solution to the amount of Jews due to expansion?
=expansion of Jewish Ghettos
Conditions within Ghettos inhuman with the estimated approx death between 1939-1942 at 500,000
What was the population in the Warsaw Ghetto?
over 380,000
On average how many people lived in a room in the Warsaw Ghetto?
9.2
How many residents in the Warsaw Ghetto died in 1941?
Over 43,000
What was the Einsatzgruppen?
=special action group
What was the task of the Einsatzgruppen?
Identify and “neutralising” potential enemies of German rule
=their actions confirmed that the war in the east was a war of racial annihilation
How many people were in Einsatzgruppen?
3000 personnel
Once in Soviet territory in July Heydrich declared all Jews to be Partisans what did this mean?
=political legitimacy to their indiscriminate murder
How many did the Einsatzgruppen Murder between June 1941 and Feb 1942?
more than 1 million
Commonly known as “Holocaust by bullets”
What was the status of Jewish Policy by late 1941?
Policies had begun to be radicalised
-Night of Broken Glass key date
-Existence of Ghettos
-Einsatzgruppen mass shootings
