Holocaust quiz

Genocide

a mass killing of one group of people

Anti-Semitism

discrimination/hatred against Jews

Concentration Camps

a place where the Nazis would send a large group of people with very harsh conditions and designed for mass murder

Nuremberg laws

set of laws that took away german jew’s civil rights and economic opportunities (german jews are no longer german citizens, german laws no longer protect german jews)

Kristallnacht “night of broken glass”

A violent pogrom against Jews in Nazi Germany resulting in widespread destruction of Jewish property and synagogues, as well as arrests and violence against Jewish individuals.

Effects of Kristallnacht

nazis tried to make germany clear of all jews, 115,00 jews left germany and fled west

Aktion T-4

secret Nazi operation that targeted people with disabilities and certain medical conditions-killed them all, often with gas chambers/starvation, fsirt large scale killing in germany b/c those people were “undesireable”

“Resettlement to the East”

nazis conquered most of europe- addition of 11 million jews under nazi control so they were sent to concentration camps in towns and cities in Poland

Ghettos

sectioned off areas fo cities where jews were imprisoned (disease, starvation, exposure killed off thousands)

Hitler’s Commissar Order of 1941

kill all commissar and officers in the red army-1 million

killed all russian jews- 2 million

Einsatzgruppen “special acion groups”

Nazi mobile killing units responsible for mass shootings of Jews They followed the German army into occupied territories and carried out extermination in mass graves.

Saurerwagen

Special armored vehicles used by Einsatzgruppen for mass shootings

Wannsee Conference

discuss how best to implement the final murder of all jews which was that killing by poison gas was to be used instead of gunshot

Final Solution

was that killing by poison gas was to be used instead of gunshot

Extermination camps

mass murder of jews in camps created to kill them all and torture them

Perpetrators

people doing the violence

Victims

people being attacked

Bystanders

people who see what is happening and do nothing

Rescuers

people who help the victims

Development of Anti-Semitism in Europe

jews were blamed for social and economic problems and were excluded from society. jews were portrayed as dangerous and inferior. then nazi germans ultimately thought the best way was to remove them by killing them