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The Holocaust Flashcards

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Who was Hitler?

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Chancellor of Germany

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When did Hitler become Chancellor of Germany

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1933

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What is persecution?

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The ill treatment of a person

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What is racial persecution?

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Persecuting someone on the base of their race. Can also be seen as persecution of the grounds of their appearance

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What is religious persecution?

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Persecuting someone on the grounds of their religious beliefs

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What is hostility, prejudice or discrimination against Jews known as?

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Antisemitism

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How long have Jews been persecuted for?

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Centuries

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What year were the Nuremberg laws introduced?

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1935

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What are the Nuremberg Laws

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They acted as a way of stripping German Jews of their rights. They removed citizenship, they weren’t allowed to work in civil service and weren’t allowed to marry Aryan Germans

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What year was Kristallnacht

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1938

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What does Kristallnacht mean

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The night of broken glass

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What was Kristallnacht

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A Jewish man shot a Nazi in the German Embassy in Paris

Attacks on Jewish property and businesses began on the night of the 9th November

Hitler fined the Jewish population 1 billion Reichsmarks as compensation for the damage.

The fact that there was no international intervention meant that violence against the Jews escalated even further as there were no repercussions.

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What is a ghetto

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A part of a city, usually a slum area, occupied by a minority group

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Ghetto conditions

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Poor. People died of starvation and disease regularly.

Ghettos were often sealed off from the outside with only one point of entry.

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What was the Warsaw Ghetto like

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More than 400,000 people lived there

Biggest ghetto

Over 70,000 died from startvation and disease

300,000 were taken to concentration camps and murdered

An uprising left 10,000 dead

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What is a concentration camp?

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Where people were held against their will. There was often an element of hard labour within this imprisonment

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What is an extermination camp?

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A place that minority groups or enemies of the state were sent for the purpose of being killed.

18
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What were the Einsatzgruppen?

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Paramilitary death squads responsible for killing people in concentration and extermination camps.

19
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What was Auschwitz-Birkenau like?

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Located in Poland near Krakow

It was a concentration/death camp

Many medical experiments took place here

Auschwitz was the concentration camp

Birkenau was the extermination camp

Over 1 million people died here

20
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What types of resistance against the Holocaust were there?

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Armed resistance

Rescuing Jews

Recording Nazi crimes

Preserving culture

Sustaining morale

21
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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When : 19th April 1943

What Happened:
- In 1942 most of the people had been deported to extermination camps

  • Rumor said that the Nazis were coming to kill and deport the rest
  • Resistors barricaded themselves and attacked the German soldiers
  • They survived a month and in the end 7,000- 10,000 died

Impact:
- Although they didn’t fight the nazis off

  • The impact was huge
  • Inspired others to fight back
22
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Sonderkommandos

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Who are they - Jews forced to work for the Nazis

When: 7th Oct 1944

What happened:
- Sonderkommandos learned they were going to be killed to hide evidence

  • Blew up a crematorium
  • Killed 3 guards
  • Allowed prisoners to escape; most were recaptured

Impact:
- It caused chaos

  • Disrupted the Nazis and gave hope
23
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How did the holocaust happen

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There were many different reasons from the hatred of the Jews to fear for their own lives.

Children were given Race Lessons in which they were taught the inferiority of the Jewish race and therefore it was ingrained in many people.

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