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Chapter 16 Section 3
The Holocaust
Question | Answer |
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Who was Gerda Weissman? | A Jew in Poland who survived the holocaust. |
What was the Holocaust? | The systematic murder of 11 million "non-Aryans" in Germany. Half of these were Jews. The whole thing started with Hitler taking jobs from non-Aryans. |
How were the Jews first targeted? | The had to wear a bright yellow star of David on their clothes and the Nurembourg laws took away their jobs and property. Jews were the scapegoat, the German's blamed them for WWI |
What was Kristallnacht? | German storm troopers swept through cities, smashing Jewish shop windows, killing, arresting, and injuring Jews. |
Where did Jewish refugees from Germany go? | They fled to France who stopped admitting them, then Britain who stopped admitting them, then Palestine and the US until there was nowhere left for them to go. |
What was the St. Louis? | A ship filled with German Jews who had immigration papers, but were still not admitted into the US. Half of them would die in the Holocaust. |
What was Hitler's solution to get rid of the Jews? | Kill them, genocide. |
Who did the Germans target in their quest to rid the nation of anyone except pure Aryans? | Gypsies, Freemasons, Jews, Communists, Socialists, Liberals, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, people with mental or long-term physical diseases |
What are concetration camps? | Labor camps where the Jews were sent. They werent bad until the SS took over and turned it into a place of hunger, and work til death. |
What was the final stage in the nazi's extermination of the Jews? | They used cyanide gas to kill thousands of Jews each day, tricking them into thinking they were going to shower. |