TOPIC EIGHT Nazi Actions Towards Jewish People 1933-1945

Question 1

Why were the Nazis anti semetic?

Answer 1

• nazis belonged to the aryan race and felt Jews were inferior
• blamed Jews for Germany’s defeat in WW1 and the Great Depression
• felt they controlled too many top jobs like lawyers

Question 2

What policies did the nazis make for jews?

Answer 2

Economic actions, Nuremberg laws, excluding Jews from German life and night of broken glass (kristallnacht)

Question 3

Economic actions towards Jews

Answer 3

In 1933 Jews were banned from civil service jobs and key media jobs. Their ships were boycotted once a week

Question 4

Nuremberg laws

Answer 4

Deprived of many political and economic rights. It was also illegal for Jews and aryans to get married or have sexual relations

Question 5

How were Jews excluded from German life?

Answer 5

In 1935 Jews were excluded from parks, public places, cafes, swimming pools etc. in 1938 Jews were banned from legal practises and had to use new names - Israel for men and Sarah for women

Question 6

Another name for night of the broken glass

Answer 6

Kristallnacht

Question 7

Night of the broken glass (kristallnacht)

Answer 7

Many Jews were attacked, killed, got their homes and shops destroyed and were sent to concentration camps by SS members on 9th-10th November 1938 in Paris. This happened because a Jew murdered a Nazi diplomat

Question 8

What wartime policies did Nazis make for Jews?

Answer 8

Madagascar plan, einsatzgruppen, ghettos and the final solution eg the holocaust

Question 9

Madagascar plan (description and outcome)

Answer 9

This plan was to exile all Europe’s Jews to Madagascar. This was impossible as the British navy was blocking German ports

Question 10

Einsatzgruppen (description and outcome)

Answer 10

SS rounded up Jews in Poland and executed them 1941-43. This was successful - 2 million Jews were murdered

Question 11

Ghettos (description and outcome)

Answer 11

These were closed off cities where Jews lived. They couldn’t leave and were used for labour in factories. This was successful as poor living conditions and lack of food meant that many starved or died from diseases

Question 12

The final solution (holocaust) (description and outcome)

Answer 12

During the WANNSEE CONFERENCE in 1942 the Nazis made the decision to kill Jewish people by sending them to extermination camps eg Auschwitz. This was successful as 6 million Jews died in the Nazi Holocaust