Summary 10 - Policies towards Jews 1940-41

Question 1

The defeat of France and West Europe in 1940-41 allowed Hitler to fulfil which one of his aims?

Answer 1

It allowed him to fulfil his aim of Lebensraum in the east.

Question 2

What was operation Barbarossa and when did it take place?

Answer 2

Operation Barbarossa was the name given to the invasion of east Poland, the Baltic states and western Russia.
It took place in June 1941

Question 3

The invasion of the Soviet Union brought how many extra Jews under Nazi control?

Answer 3

3 million

Question 4

Why did Operation Barbarossa impact Nazi racial policies?

Answer 4

The war in the east was a war of racial annihilation, it was fought with an intensity and brutality of a different scale to conflict in the west.

Question 5

How did Operation Barbarossa mark a turning point in Nazi racial policy?

Answer 5

Hitler made it clear that his troops were to exterminate Germany’s racial enemies often called the Bolshevik- Jewish intelligentsia). The aim of Nazi racial policy changed to mass murder.

Question 6

When did Goering issue a general order to kill communist commissars (party officials assigned to the Red Army) and Jewish sympathisers.

Answer 6

July 1941

Question 7

How did Hitler increase the pressure on German Jews between 1940 and 1941?

Answer 7

• Radios were confiscated in November 1939
• In 1941, Jews were excluded from wartime rationing allowances for clothes and shoes
• In 1941, Jews needed a police permit to travel and they were forced to wear the yellow Star of David