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What was Auschwitz I?

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a concentration camp

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What was Auschwitz II?

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a concentration camp and a death camp

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What was Auschwitz III?

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a labour camp

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What is the Holocaust also known as?

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Shoah, meaning catastrophe

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What was the first use of the word Holocaust?

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It was used to describe the killing of Jews in france 1142, and as a reference to anti-semetism in medieval times

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What were some of the principles of nazi ideology?

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Racism, biological and religious discrimination
self-sufficiency
anti communism
social darwinism
people's community
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Why did many Germans believe they had lost WW1?

stab in the back theory

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They believed they had been betrayed by jewish democratic politicians signing the treaty

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Who was Joseph Goebbels?`

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the minister for enlightenment and propoganda

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How did the nazis use propaganda and media to control germany?

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There was a radio block on foreign programmmes
There were organised marches and speeches on the radio
They fired anti-nazi editors and journalists

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How did the nazis use terror to control germany?

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They gave the police and the SS absolute power

The police ignored nazi crimes and snooped politically

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how did the nazis use the gestapo to control germany

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the gestapo could arrest people on suspicion and send them to concentration camps with no explanation

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When were many anti-jewish laws created?

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1939-1940, they were meant to separate the jews from society

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What was the nuremburg law and when was it created

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1935, jews cannot marry or have relatonships with non jews

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What was kristallnacht and when was it?

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Nov, 1938. The smashing of jewish homes and businesses. 1000 jews were killed

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What was the british union of fascists (BUF)

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an anti-semitic group who were against war. they aimed to copy mussolini’s ideology and hitler’s nazi party

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who founded the BUF and when?

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Oswald Mosely, 1932

17
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What was the effect of the german invasion of poland?

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most jewish students were expelled and/or sent to concentration camps

18
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How were danish jews protected?

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the danish government were collaborating with the germans as they were similiar to the aryan race

19
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why were ghettos created?

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tehy were sealed off communities created as a “temporary solution to the jewish problem”

20
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Name some ghettos

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The riga ghetto

the radom ghetto

21
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Where was the final solution (the Holocaust) planned?

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The wansee conference, january 1942

22
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When and where was the holocaust by bullets?

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1941-1944 in eastern europe

23
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What happened at babi yar?

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jews were ordered to be at a place at a time and to bring all their possessions and clothes. they were forced to hand over their possessions and were shot by a firing squad in a trench which would later be filled in

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What was the ‘process of radicalisation’?

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to win the war then ‘allow’ genocide through disease and starvation. this was estimated to kill 80 million people to ‘create space’ for the germans

25
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When did america join the war?

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december 1941

26
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Who was leopold socha?

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an ex-thief and sewage worker who saved 10 jews gby supplying them, even when they ran out of money to make up for his crimes when he was younger

27
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who was oskar schindler

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a spy for germany who moved 1200 workers to a factory so he didnt lose his cheap work force. however, this saved all of them from aushchwitz. over 6000 of their descendants are alive today

28
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who was raoul wallenberg?

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he gave many hungarian jews swedish passports and set up soup kitchens, nurseries, hospitals.

29
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Who were the liberators?

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soldiers of allied armies, including doctors, nurses and priests

30
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When were the death marches?

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summer 1944-april1945

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Who were some perpetrators of the holocaust?

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Rudolf Hoess
Antanas Gecevicius
Maurice Papon
Hermine Braunsteiner

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