The Holocaust Flashcards
Why did the German blame the Jews for the start of the war?
For Germany’s defeat in ww1
For Germany’s economic problems that followed ww1
New racial order proposed by the nazis. Considered the master one. All other races were considered inferior
Aryans
Prohibited marriage to non Jewish people
Limited the kind of work they could do
Nuremberg laws
Violent riots launched against Jews.frequently encouraged by the government
Pogroms
Night of the broken glass
Marked a major increase of Jewish persecution by the nazis.
Kristallacht
Shot a German diplomat in Paris to avenge his fathers deportation
Hershel grynszpan
What are the three phases of hitters solution to get rid of the Jews
Deportation
Placement in ghettos
Concentration camps
City neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live
Ghettos
Hitler needs to eliminate those who were inferior or subhuman. Hitlers program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people
The final solution
Located mainly in Germany and Poland
Concentration camps
Extermination camps were built.
The final stage
What is the largest extermination camp?
Aushwitz
Systematic murder of millions of Jews and others by the nazis during ww2
The holocaust
