Treatment of Jews (1933-1945)

Question 1

What happened in 1933?

Answer 1

• Jewish and Aryan children were forbidden to play together.
• Jews were banned from certain jobs: could not be teachers, judges, civil servants or lawyers.

Question 2

What happened in 1935?

Answer 2

The Nuremberg Laws were passed.

Question 3

What did the Nuremberg laws state?

Answer 3

• Jews could not be German citizens.

- Jews could not marry Aryans.

Question 4

What happened in 1938?

Answer 4

Kristallnacht.

- Jews were banned from being doctors, running their own businesses, going to state schools, cinemas and swimming pools.

Question 5

What were the events of Kristallnacht?

Answer 5

1. A German diplomat was shot by a Jewish student
2. In retaliation, Nazi leaders encouraged their supporters to attack and smash Jewish homes, shops and synagogues.
3. 91 Jewish people were killed
4. In following months, many Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps.

Question 6

What happened in 1939?

Answer 6

1. Jews were required to be in their homes after nightfall

2. They had to hand over any jewellery, gold or silver to the police.

Question 7

Who were the Einsatzgruppen?

Answer 7

Special SS units that would round up Jews in occupied territories and shoot them. This occurred between 1939-42.

Question 8

What happened in 1941?

Answer 8

Jews were sent to overcrowded ghettos in major cities such as Warsaw. Many Jews died in the ghettos.

Question 9

What happened in 1942?

Answer 9

The beginning of the ‘Final Solution’.

Question 10

What was the ‘Final Solution’?

Answer 10

The mass killing of Jews in concentration camps.

Question 11

How did the Nazis carry out the ‘Final Solution’?

Answer 11

1. They transported Jews from the ghettos into concentration camps
2. Nazi doctors would decide who was ft enough to work and who would go straight to the gas chambers
3. Up to 2000 people would be killed in a gas chamber at once.

Question 12

How many Jews and other minorities were murdered?

Answer 12

6 million and around 4 million Russian prisoners.

Question 13

Why did the Jewish population not rebel?

Answer 13

1. The ghettos were horrendous so they believed nothing worse could happen to them
2. The ghettos caused them to become starving so they would have been to weak to rebel
3. They did not know what was awaiting them in the camps because they were not told.- Auschwitz looked like a train station upon arrival so they would not have known.