The development of anti - Semitic policies Flashcards
What does Anchschluss mean
union
When was Anchschluss with Germany ?
- March 1938
Why did Germany want to unite with Austria ?
- one of Hitler’s foreign policy aims was to unite all German speakers
- Lebensraum
- Autarky ( self sufficiency )
How was the union with Austria proposed ?
- Australian Chancellor Schuschnigg announced there would be a referendum on a possible union with Germany
How did the referendum succeed ( Nazis ) ?
- strong Nazi party and support in Austria
- Hitler secretly pressured Schuschnigg to resign and threatened invasion
- German army crossed border into Austria
- Plebicite was not secret.Threats and coercion were employed to manipulate the votes
How did the referendum succeed ?
- Britain, France and Italy would not intervene in Austrian independence.
Led to Hitler ordering his army to cross the border into Austria which allowed the Nazis to influence the referendum
Result of the referendum ?
- Referendum resulted in 99.7% in approval of union with Germany.
Impact of the Anschluss with Germany on Austrian Jews lives
- All of the laws discriminating against Jews in Germany were now in force in Austria
impact of the Anschluss with Germany on Polish Jews suffering
- jews suffered heavily
45,000 Jews emigrated
1500 sent to concentration camps
Over 500 killed themselves
Impact of the Anschluss with Germany on Nazi racial policy ?
- Reinhard Heydrich used Austria as a laboratory for developing SS policy/ immigration policy
- Central Office for Jewish Immigration was set up. 45,000 of 180,000 Austria’s Jews had been forced to emigrated
Impact of the Anschluss with Germany on nazi economic policy against Jews ?
- occupation in Austria led to a rapid acceleration of the economic campaign against Jews
- Nazis in Austria were allowed to act against jews without consent.Prompted more radical action in Germany itself
All impacts of the Anschluss with Germany on Austria ?
- Austrian Jews suffered heavily
- All laws discriminating against Jews were now in force in Austria
- Austria used as a laboratory for developing SS policy/ emigration policy
- Central Office for Jewish Immigration set up for. 45,00 jews forced to migrate
- Occupation of Austria led to a rapid acceleration of the economic campaign
Impact of Germany invading Poland ?
- start of WW2
- Jewish population in Poland was 10%
- provided the regime with new territories
- the acquisition of Poland changed Nazi racial policy
How/Why did the war bring about the final radicalisation of race policies ? ( Final Solution )
- a national emergency allowed them to act with more dictatorial power and in greater secrecy
- a propaganda machine to whip up patriotism and hatred of Germany’s enemies
- new territories under the Reich
- a way for the Germanisation of the occupied territories
Impact of Poland on Nazi racial policy ?
- Poland was a testing ground for racial policy
- Racial policies such as ghettorization, deportation ( expulsion ) and exploitation
Through testing in Poland, the Nazis learned that it was easier to murder undesirables than to find them homes ( Origin of the Final Solution )
How was Poland split up ?
Poland was split up in three section areas
- Eastern Poland
- Western Poland
- General Government
What happened to Eastern Poland ?
- occupied by the uSSR, in accordance with the Nazi Soviet Pact
What happened to Western Poland
- Western Poland ( western parts of Poland, Upper Silesia, West Prussia and the Warthegau ) were incorporated in the German Reich and placed under the role of Nazi Gauleiters
What happened to the General Government area ?
- dumping zone for Jews into the General Government area.
- In order to Germanise the territories and achieve Lebensraum
When was Operation Barbarossa ?
- June 1941
Result of Operation Barbarossa ?
- German armies swept across the USSR, occupying vast territories in eastern Poland, the Baltic States ( Lithuania, Latvia and Eastern Poland ), western Russia and Ukraine.
Impact of Operation Barbarossa on the amount of jews ?
- brought more than 3 million Jews under Nazi control
What type of war was Operation Barbarossa
- a racial war, war of extermination
Why did Nazis want to brutally kill USSR soldiers ?
- Nazis believed that Slavs were an inferior race
- USSR was communist.Nazis saw Jews and Communist as one.
