The Wannsee conference Flashcards
Heydrich was ordered by who to make a final solution
Hermann Goering
who was Reinhard Heydrich
He led the Wannsee conference in 1942 jan 20
was in charge of finding the final solution
he was killed by and ambush by czech resistance fighters
and Germans took revenge by razing(destroying) the village of Lidice and killing all male inhabitants
who was the person who wanted sterilization?
Otto hofman
how was the final solution going to be organized
- Women, children, the old & the sick were to be sent for ‘special treatment.’
- The young and fit would go through a process called ‘destruction through work.’
- Shooting was too inefficient as the bullets were needed for the war effort
- On arrival the Jews would go through a process called ‘selection.
- Jews were to be rounded up and put into transit camps called
- Conditions in the Ghettos were designed to be so bad that many die whilst the rest would be willing to leave these areas in the hope of better conditions
The Jews living in these Ghettos were to be used as a cheap source of labour.
-The remaining Jews were to be shipped to ‘resettlement areas’ in the East.
what tactics did the nazis use to get the jews to go to ghettos
Deception, told them they were gonna do resettlement in areas in the east, but were actually going to ghettos
they were told to bring the tools of their trade and pots and pans
Terror
The SS shot people for smuggling food or for any act of resistance
Starvation
The jews in the Warsaw ghetto were only fed 300 cal per day
hungry people are easier to control
Adolf Eichmann
and how did he find a killing method, what was his inspiration?
was given the task of implementing the final solution
-he took note how gassed was already being used to kill the mentally handicapped people so he decided it would work well on jews.
1962 the isreali government found him, kidnapped him and tried him and hanged him in israel.
-SS officer
Why was the Wannsee Conference held?
Shootings and the ghettoes were seen as ‘inefficient’ ways of killing millions of people. Therefore a conference was held at Wannsee, near Berlin, to work out a better way of killing the Jews. It was decided to set up death camps to do this.’’
Who led the Wannsee Conference? Why were they important to Hitler and the Nazi Party?
Reinhard Heydrich lead the conference and he was important to Hitler as he was very loyal to the party and the cause
The conference was important as the powers in the Nazi party discussed the “Final Solution” in how to deal with the Jewish problem forever, finally being able to act on Hitler’s vision of a world free without these problematic beings
What tactics did the Nazi’s use to get Jews to leave the ghettos?
Nazis used
- starvation,
- terror,
- deception (ex. Told they were resettling) to get them to leave and move to death camps, the final solution
date of wansee conference
Jan 20th 1942
