The Holocaust Flashcards
What does holocaust mean
Holocaust means destruction of a vast group of people, especially those who are Jewish
What does genocide mean
Killing off a race of people ☠️
What is the aryan race
A race believed to be better than all the other
What is anti semitism
Hostility to Jewish people
What’s social Darwinism
Saying some races are better than others
Who led the SS
Himler
What was the section of the SS in charge of the Nazi camps called?
Death’s heads unit
Who organised the Holocaust?
Heydrich and Eichmann
Where did they plan the final solution which was just another term for the Holocaust?
At the Wannsee conference January 1942
What happened to Jewish students
The were expelled from their schools
What happed to the Jew’s property
What happened to Jew’s with jobs
They were sacked
What were Jess banned from playing or doing?
Playing sport going to the cinema ECT
How were they transported to Auschwitz
Cramped inhuman cattle trucks
What food did Jews get at aushwitz
Very limited food e.g. a bit of whale meat and some sort of vegetable soup
