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Holocaust History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Judengasse | Jew Alley (ghetto) |
| 1614 Frankfurt Riots | Local guilds upset over small economic matters; blame on Jews |
| Mayor Amschel Rothschild | Set up own business and developed relationship with prince of Hessia |
| Moses Mendelssohn | The German Jewish Enlightenment. Shape ideas of acculturation and assimilation. |
| January 1933 | Hitler becomes chancellor |
| Law for the Restoration of the Civil Service 1933 | Legalized discrimination of Jews |
| Nuremberg Laws 1935 | Distinction between citizens and Jews, no marriage between Jews and non-Jews, racial passports required |
| March 1938 | Hitler annexes Austria, "Anschluss" |
| 1938 Krystalnaht | Goerbbels sees this as excuse for systematic excuse for destruction of German property |
| Count Arthur d Gobineau | Developed theory of Aryan master race |
| Positive Eugenics | Look for desirable traits and incentivize people with those traits to mate with each other |
| Negative Eugenics | Isolate those with undesirable traits to prevent them from being passed on |
| Heinrich Himmler | Talks of "gypsy nuisance." Porajmos is the gypsy holocaust. Reichsfuhrer SS. Established racial cult within SS. |
| Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen | Speaks out against T-4 program |
| Wewelsberg Castle | Center of S.S. cult |
| Josef Mengele | "Angel of Death," S.S. garrison physician at Auschwitz. Carried out cruel medical experiments on prisoners |
| Adolf Eichmann | The "banality of evil." Coordinated transportation for trains carrying Jewish prisoners to camps. "Desk murderer" |
| Lebensborn | To assist racially pure mothers and children. |
| Gestapo | Secret State Police. Enforce laws. Relied on people giving them info. |
| Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) | Created in 1939 to combat all enemies of the Reich inside and outside Germany |
| Enabling Act of 1933 | Gave police unrestricted power |
| Fuhrer Order | No law more powerful. Spoken order or indication that Hitler had. |
| Otto Ohlendorf | 1941 placed in charge of security squad, commanded Einsatzgruppe D |
| October 1940 | Warsaw Ghetto established |
| September 1939 | WWII begins with the Nazi invasion of Poland |
| Operation Barbarossa | No mercy or respect for international law. War crimes against the Soviets will not be punished. |
| June 22, 1941 | Germans invade USSR |
| March 1944 | Germany occupies Hungary |
| Top Hungarian Collaborators | Laszlo Endre and Andur Jaross |
| Raoul Wallenberg | Swedish diplomat stationed in Budapest. Gave passports to Jews so that they would receive better treatment in an international ghetto. |
| Sara Schalkahaz | Catholic religious sister who helped to hide Jews |
| Ukrainian Auxiliary Police | Take psychological pressure off of Germans by doing dirty work. Murder squads and shooting under German command. |
| The Hunger Plan | Economic management plan for occupied Ukraine to feed German soldiers |
| Polish Home Army | Help in 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Underground army |
| Ukrainian Insurgent Army | Created 1943. Guerrilla army of most radical nationalists |
| Raphael Lemkin | Coined the phrase "genocide" |
| S.S. St. Lewis | Ship with Jewish refugees turned away by America |
| The Kindertransport | Jewish children come to Britain without parents |
| Evian Conference 1938 | Set up by League of Nations. Most countries just agree to stop accepting refugees. Don't want to provoke a war with Germany. |
| World Jewish Congress 1936 | Focus on situation of refugees. Lobby different governments to allow more Jews and raise funds. President is Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. |
| Rieger Telegram 1942 | Tells of chemicals used in murders (gas chambers) |
| Jan Karski | Sneaks into Warsaw ghetto and into death camp. Brings information to Britain. |
| Rudolf Kasztner | Hungarian Jew, Zionist, negotiated with Eichmann for Jewish lives. Bribes with money. |
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