The Holocaust – Flashcards
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Victims of the Holocaust
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Jews, homosexuals, non-Aryans, the insane, the disabled, the incurably ill, gypsies (Roma), Poles, and Russians
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Who were members of the "master race"?
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Aryans (Germanic people)
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Nuremberg Laws
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-1935 laws that stripped Jews of their rights, citizenship, jobs, etc.
-Placed severe restrictions of Jews, prohibited from marrying non- Jews, attending schools or universities, holding government jobs, practicing law or medicine or publishing books
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Kristallnacht
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-November 9, 1938
-"Night of Broken Glass"
-Nazis trashed Jewish synagogues, stores, homes, etc.
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List of Hitler's Solutions
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1. Madagascar Plan
2. Einstaz Gruppen
3. Final solution
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Madagascar Plan
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All Jews would be exported to Madagascar
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Einsatz Gruppen
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-Mobile killing units that rounded Jews up and publicly shot them down
-Deemed to be "not efficient enough"
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Hitler's "Final Solution"
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Death camps
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Where did German Jews try to migrate to find safety from Nazi terror
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Other countries: U.S., Great Britain, France, etc.
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Under the Nuremberg Laws, Jews were sent to...
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Ghettos or concentration camps
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Ghettos
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Segregated Jewish areas Jews were forced to live in in German-controlled cities
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Where were the concentration camps?
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Poland and Germany
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Concentration camps
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Over 1000 of these
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Where were the death camps located?
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In Poland
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How many death camps were there?
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Six
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The Six Death Camps
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1. Auschwitz
2. Belzec
3. Chelmno
4. Maidanek
5. Sobibor
6. Treblinka
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Largest of death camps
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Auschwitz
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Why did Hitler believe that Jews and other "subhumans" had to be exterminated?
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They were inferior - wanted to preserve the Aryan master race
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Why make death camps?
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They were the "final solution" - sped up extermination of inferiors
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When did the final stage of the "final solution" begin?
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-Early 1942
-Started with 1st areas taken - Poland, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, etc.
-By 1943, they were starting on Eastern Europe (Czechoslovakia, Italy, etc.)
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How did non-Jewish people try to save Jews form the horrors of Nazism?
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Hid Jews in homes or helped them escape to neutral countries - smuggled out
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How many Jews died in the Holocaust?
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6 million
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How many other "subhumans" died in the Holocaust?
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9-10 million
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Country that had the highest number of Jews killed during the Holocaust
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Poland
