The Nazis And The Holocaust Flashcards
What factors led to the Holocaust
The T4 Programme- All institutions providing psychiatric care has to submit details of the people in their care to T4 offices in Berlin where a panel of Doctors decided whom they thought should die
Victims were the disabled and people with mental health conditions
The impact of WW2-Attack on Poland 1st Sept 1939
Jewish ghettos established in cities (Warsaw, Krakow and Lublin) and were initially set up as temporary holding bays
After ghettos became sealed in spring 1940 population ended up in appalling conditions. Reduced food supplies (malnutrition) poor sanitation and cramped living conditions (tuberculosis and typhus)
In first 2 years of war half a million Jews died
Madagascar
1939-40, various plans for “resettlement” were considered. One of which was the suggestion of using Madagascar as a solution
Plan could be seen as quite callous and calculating and it was expected that many would fail to survive the journey/Island
Plans came to nothing and Germany failed to defeat Britain in 1940 and take control of high seas
Operation Barbarossa- June 1941
Einsatzgruppen and Soddekommando rounded up local Jewish people and Communist Party Officials who were then murdered in mass shooting in Western Russia and Ukraine
By end of 1941 some 600,000 Russian Jews had been killed (major escalation of Nazi racial action)
Wannsee Conference January 20th 1942
Organised to put ‘final solution’ into action
Initially planned for early December suggesting that the decision for systematic extermination had been made in previous months (chaired by Heydrich and organised by Eichmann)
Camps set up in 1942- Auschwitz, Treblinka and Sobibor. Polish Jews transported by train to their death in gas chambers
What factors caused the Holocaust
-Nazi anti-Semitism (Intentionalists)
-Nazi anti-Semitism and the impact of WW2 (Structuralists)
Why did Germans not oppose the Holocaust
-Nazi Propaganda in schools and media
-Censorship of any criticisms of Nazi anti-Semitism
-Terror organisations (SS and Gestapo)
-The brutality of War
-Anti-Semitic attitudes of some Germans
-Location of the main camps in Poland
