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anti-semitism in ww2
ghettos, death camps, wannsee conference, death marches etc
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what does hitler do in january 1939 against jews | calls for elimination of all jews |
| why are jews outside of germany at risk due to nazis as well | jews in nazi conquered territory |
| example of jews in nazi-conquered territory | 3 million polish jews |
| when does germany invade poland | september 1939 |
| when are the 1st polish ghettos established | october 1939 |
| what were conditions like in polish ghettos | very poor |
| 3 examples of poor conditions in polish ghettos | overcrowded, malnourishment, spread of disease |
| what statistic supports that polish ghettos had poor conditions | 1940-42 = 100,000 jews died in warsaw ghetto |
| jewish councils | jewish people forced to choose other jews to be deported and murdered |
| what does germany achieve in january 1940 | germany conquers france |
| the madagascar plan | plan to resettle jews in ghettos in french colony of madagascar |
| do the germans ever fulfill the madagascar plan | no |
| why don't the germans fulfill the madagascar plan | britain's royal navy blocks germany's access to madagascar |
| what does germany do in June 1941 | invade USSR |
| what was germany's invasion of the USSR in 1941 called | Operation Barbarossa |
| Einstatzgruppen | SS squads in charge of murdering soviet jews |
| how many einstatzgruppen were there | 4000 |
| how many jews had the einstazgruppen murdered by december 1941 | 500,000 |
| what did the einstatzgruppen do in september 1941 | murder 33,7771 jews in Babi Yar, Ukriane in 2 days |
| when was the wannsee conference | January 1942 |
| where was the wannsee conference | berlin |
| who oversaw the wannsee conference | Reynhard Heydrich |
| what were created in the wannsee conference | plans for the final solution |
| who was in charge of the final solution operation | Adolf Eichmann |
| 3 elements of the plans for the final solution | -death camps set up -gas chambers +ovens -mostly in poland |
| 2 examples of death camps | Belzec, chelmo |
| when were the 1st death camps built | spring 1942 |
| when did the majority of the mass murder of jews in death camps take place | summer 1942-44 |
| what was the sub-camp where the gas chambers and ovens at Auschwitz called | Birkenau |
| when was Auschwitz's transformation from a concentration camp to a death camp completed | spring 1943 |
| roughly how many jews died in auschwitz | 1 million |
| 2 reasons why death camps began to close | -inmate revolts -USSR army advancing on german territory |
| 3 death camps where inmates revolted | Treblinka, Sobibor, Auschwitz |
| death marches | SS moving death camp inmates into more secure german territory away from advancing USSR forces |
| how many death marches were there | 59 |
| why were these marches called death marches | 50 percent of all inmates in marches died |
| when did the death march from auschwitz to wodzoslav happen | january 1945 |
| how many people were forced to march from auschwitz to wodzoslav in jan 1945 | 66,000 |
| what percentage of those forced to march from auschwitsz to wodzoslav died | 25 percent |
| why was the holocaust keps secret from the germans | fear of rebellion |
| did the germans have any knowledge of the genocide of jewish people | yes |
| 2 reasons germans did little to protest the holocaust | -fear of SS -businesses benefitted |
| example of a business that benefitted from the holocaust | I.G Farben |
| why did I.G Farben benefit from the holocaust | it manufactured Zykon B gas that was used in camps |
| did the holocaust have any negative impact on germans | lowereed morale due to fear of revenge |
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georgieN007
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