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_Holocaust_
Holocaust Study Stack
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A program of mass murder of the Jewish race. | Holocaust |
| Annihilation of an entire race of people. | Genocide |
| The hatred of Jews. | Anti-Semetism |
| Hitler's definition of the perfect person. They have blonde hair and blue eyes. | Aryan Race |
| -Nazis boycott Jewish businesses. -GESTAPO created -First concentration camp | 1933 |
| -Jews not allowed to have national health insurance. -SS Founded -Hitler receives 90% approval rating. | 1934 |
| -Nuremberg Race Laws | 1935 |
| -SS Deathshead division -Olympic Games held in Berlin | 1936 |
| -Jews cannot be teachers of Germans -Jews could not be accountants and dentists -"Eternal Jew" exhibit is opened. | 1937 |
| -Nazis enter Austria -League of Nations is trying to help the Jews -Jews cannot practice medicine. | 1938 |
| -Kristallnact -Jews must give up gold and silver. -Broken Glass -Nazis seize Czechoslovakia -Nazis invade Poland -All Jews must wear the Star of David. | 1939 |
| -German Jews deported to Poland -Ghettos of Lodz, Krakow, and Warsaw are sealed off. | 1940 |
| -Nazis invade Soviet Union -SS Follow in advance of German Army. | 1941 |
| -Heydrich ordered to prepare a "Final Solution" to the Jewish Question | Wannsee Conference |
| Second in command of GESTAPO and SS. | Reinhard Heydrich |
| Underground agents blew up his car and killed him. 1000 Suspects shot. | Heydrich Assassination 1942 |
| -Jews relocated and then shot one-by-one in the woods. | Phase 1= Shooting |
| -People relocated and then put into vans. -Exhaust pipe led back to vans and killed the Jews. | Phase 2= Gas Vans |
| -Nazi Leaders wanted to speed up the Final Solution -Two types: Concentration and Extermination | Phase 3= Camps |
| -Prisoners used for labor -Prisoners usually lasted 1/2 year. -Communists, criminals, social-democrats, and artists usually sent. -First camp in 1933 | Concentration camps |
| -Camp for Women -Run by criminals -50,000 Women Killed -14,000 Women Recued | Ravensbruck |
| -Most Humane Camp -For well connected Jews. -Jews married to Aryans could pay to go. -Good rating by Red Cross. | Theresienstadt |
| -They started as normal concentration camps -Gas chambers added for use on humans | Extermination Camps |
| -First death camp built in 1941 | Chelmno |
| -1941 POW Camp -Jew Came in 1942 -Jews, Poles, And Soviet POWs -2 Gas Chambers -4 Crematoriums | Majanek |
| -Started operations in January 1940 -Himmler chose it as a place for the Final Solution. -Mass killings with Zyclon B gas -12,000 Kills in one day. | Auschwitz |
| Gas used in Gas chambers | Zyclon B |
| -Largest Single Massacre of the Holocaust -March 1942- November 1943 -1.7 Jews Killed | Operation Reinhard |
| -Jews from Warsaw -10 Gas Chambers -Bodies burned in open pits. -Located to the East of Warsaw -August, 1943 | Treblinka |