THE FINAL SOLUTION Flashcards
How many Jews had been murdered by the end of war?
6 million.
How many Jews were brought under Nazi control in Poland in 1939?
3 million.
Give two examples of places where there were ghettos.
- Warsaw.
2. Krakow.
By the Spring of 1942, how many Jews had been murdered? By whom?
500,000.
SS Einsatzgruppen.
What did the murders of Spring 1942 pave the way for?
The more organised and systematic extermination or ‘Final Solution’.
What plans were drawn up regarding Jews at the meeting at Wannsee?
Plans to conscript Jews into labour gangs in Eastern Europe in which it was expected a large number would die.
During 1942, what were a number of camps converted into?
Extermination centres, such as Auschwitz.
Where were Jews transported from and too?
From: Ghettos.
To: Extermination Camps.
How many were estimated to have been killed? How many of the 3 million Polish Jews survived?
6 million total.
Only 4000 of the 3 million.
What is there no evidence of?
A written order from Hitler instructing the killing of the Jews.
In Jan 1944, what did Himmler state?
He had been given a führer order to prioritise the solution to the Jewish question.
