The Holocaust Flashcards
What was the Holocaust?
The Holocaust was the mass killing of Jewish Europeans during the German Nazi regime
What is a genocide?
The mass killing of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
What were the Nuremberg laws?
Laws which removed all freedoms and opportunities from Jewish people and dehumanised them in the eyes of Germans.
What happened to Polish Jews during war-time conditions?
They were isolated into the ghettos, largest being in Warsaw (capital of Poland)
Where, when and why was Hitlers conference in January 1942 held?
- Wannsee
- 20 January 1942
- The decision to officially exterminate 11 million Jews was taken.
What was Hitlers plan at this conference?
To exterminate Jews all over the world. To take them to camps in east Europe and work them to death.
Who was responsible for drawing up the details of the ‘final solution’ to the Jewish problem?
Adolph Eichmann
Which is the most notorious death camp?
Auschwitz
What were Jews transported in to the camps?
Cattle trucks
What would happen when they arrived at the concentration camps?
They were separated into those who could work and those who couldn’t
What would happen to those who could not work?
They were immediately executed. They were told to undress to shower but the showers released gas and not water. They bodies were then burned in an oven or taken to mass graves.
What happened as the war came to an end?
It as clear that Germany was losing so the execution of Jewish people sped up.
What happened to those who spoke out about what was happening?
They were arrested and executed
What was the white rose society?
A resistance movement in Germany calling for non violent resistance against the Nazi regime.
How were Jewish people identified?
With the Star of David
