Persecution Of German Jews

Question 1

Why were Germans antisemitic

Answer 1

Two German disasters were blamed on Jews. Defeat in WW1 and treaty of Versailles.

Ordinary Germans believed Jews were greedy and took all the top jobs making a lot of Germans ready to accept Nazi policies toward Jews

Question 2

April 1933 Jews were..

Answer 2

Banned from government jobs and so prevented from earning money

Question 3

May 1935 they were banned from

Answer 3

Serving in the army so prevented from earning money

Question 4

January 1937 banned from

Answer 4

Key professions like teaching, accountancy and dentistry

Question 5

September 1935 introduced the

Answer 5

Nuremberg laws

Question 6

What were the Nuremberg laws

Answer 6

-the Reich citizenship law:

Jews deprived from many political and economic rights and were made wards of the state

-the law for the protection of German blood and German honour:

Became illegal for Jews and Aryan to marry or engage in sexual relations outside marriage

Question 7

What happened in summer 1935

Answer 7

Signs put up saying “Jews not wanted here” in places like parks, pools and cafes

Question 8

What did Jews have to do in august 1938

Answer 8

Carried identity cards that showed they were a Jew

Question 9

What happened in 1938 to exclude them from society

Answer 9

Passports stamped with a J shaped symbol

Question 10

What happened in November 1938

Answer 10

Kristalnacht occurred. A Jewish man killed a Nazi diplomat which sparked it.

400 synagogues, 7500 shops destroyed, 91 Jews killed, many homes destroyed, Jews fined 1 billion marks

Question 11

What happened I’m 1938-1941

Answer 11

50% of German Jews emigrated during this period

Question 12

German Jews stopped emigrating because

Answer 12

Fighting intensified in WW2 and borders closed

Question 13

3 Nazi solutions to deplete Jews

Answer 13

Madagascar plan

Einsatzgruppen

Ghettos

Question 14

What was the Madagascar plan

Answer 14

A plan to exile all Europe’s Jews to Madagascar

Question 15

Was the Madagascar plan a success

Answer 15

No British navy was blockading German ports

Question 16

What was einsatzgruppen

Answer 16

SS groups rounded up Jews in Poland and the USSR executed them

Question 17

Was einsatzgruppen a success

Answer 17

Yes as it was estimated by 1943 it killed 2 million people

Question 18

What was ghettos

Answer 18

Segregated areas which Jews were forced to live

Question 19

Were ghettos a success

Answer 19

Poor living conditions and lack of food meant starved to death or died from disease

Question 20

What was the final solution

Answer 20

Heydrich decided to create death camps for Jews at the wansee conference in January 1942

Question 21

At the end of WW2 how many Jews killed

Answer 21

6 million

Question 22

What happened upon arrival at aushwitz

Answer 22

Separated into gender

Selected for work if fit

Question 23

What happened to unfit prisoners

Answer 23

Gassed by zyklon B in pretend shower rooms and bodies burnt