Absolute key holocaust facts

3 facts for contemporary reactions

• 1938 Evian Conference major ally failure, did not relax immigration restrictions

• Uber-Wetzler report 1944; what was happening to the jews

• NYT reported jews as the victim group only 6 times when regarding holocaust stories

key facts for developments of jewish and other minority extermination policies

• 1942 einsatzgruppen killings marked deathly turn

• Operation Reinhard 1942-1943; killed around 1.4 million, most of which was compressed into a three month period

• sinti-roma- 23,000 sent to “gypsy family camp” = Auschwitz

• homosexuals- paragraph 175, resulted in the arrest of around 100,000

• 1941, moved to Zyklon B

key facts for ghettoisation and jewish response

• children as major income of food, 80% of food in Warsaw was smuggled

• rough calorie allowance was 180-300

• TB, typhus, dysentery; all of which had no medication for

• by adding to the war effort, they could protect themselves; eg, Lodz ghetto became major provider for military equipment

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  clandestine schools set up, synagogues, libraries and schools

  concerts, theatre productions and art contests

  existence of 600 prayer groups in Warsaw

• Most important revolt = Warsaw uprising 1943

  - major revolt, 700-1000 fighters using guerilla tactics

The impact of war on Nazi policy towards the Jews key knowledge

• organised reactions; 2) Operation Barbarossa; first major killing spree on jews, reactionary to the movement into the East

  3) Failure of Blitzkrieg on Eastern front; failed to conquer major territory in East led to need for Wannsee Conference

  4) Wannsee conference; were genocide was bureaucratically formed, to coordinate the killing of the jews, convened by Reinhard Heydrich

  5) Operation Reinhard; coordinated the official opening of the killing centres. Industrialisation of mass killing

• role of einsatzgruppen; killed around 1.5 million jews

nazi antisemitism and persecution towards the jews

• jewish boycott 1 april 1933

• social segregation through 1935 nuremberg act; laws such as preventing intercourse between jews and ‘aryans’, ‘J’ passport stamps

• november 1938 kristallnacht

• nisko and madagascar plans abandoned by 1941

The background of European and German antiSemitism and racist theories; key facts

• black death scapegoating 1340’s

• german ‘Hep!Hep’ riots 1819

• economic crash that was widely blamed on jews in late 19th century