The Holocaust Flashcards
What does the holocaust mean
Destruction of a vast group of people, especially Jewish people
What is genocide
Killing off a race of people
What is the aryan race
The superior German race
What is anti-semitism
Hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people
What is social Darwinism
Belief some races are better than others and the best race is aryans
Who are aryans
Germans
Who was heydrich
A high-ranking German and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the holocaust
Who was eichmann
A German-Austrian official of the Nazi party
What was the Wannsee conference
A meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany
What was the final solution
The mass murder of Europe’s Jews
What was the holocaust summed up
The systematic murder of Europe’s Jews by the nazi’s
What happened on January 1942
The senior Nazi officials met at the Wannsee conference
What was the roll call area in Dachau used for
Ss guard used this area to punish prisoners, set examples and show their power
What word did the camp use to describe the prisoner barracks in Dachau
blocks
How much people were each accommodation barrack designed to hold
200 people
