WWII Study guide part 4

What is the word holocaust mean?

It mans sacrifice by fire

What does the word HOlocaust mean?

It is the genocide done by Nazis 1930s-1945

How many victims of the HOlocaust were there?

12 million

How many Jews were victimized?

6 mil

Who were some others targeted besides Jews?

Roma, mentally ill, physically ill/disabled, Slavs, Poles, Jehovah’s witnesses, homosexuals, communists, political opponents, POC

How many victims were children?

1 mil

What is the Hebrew word for the Holocaust?

Shoah

What is the beginning steps of the Holocaust done in 1933

Jewish businesses were being boycotted

Did the Nazis know who was Jewish?

The NAzis ordered everyone to register themselves so they did know

What percent of the population was Jewish?

1-2%

What were the laws made in 1935 that stripped Jews of their German citizenship and rights?

Nuremberg Laws

Why couldn’t Jews leave Germany?

Some tried but many countries closed themselves off

What was a result of NUremberg Laws?

Deportation and MIgration

What does Kristallnacht translate to?

Night of Broken Glass

When was the Night of Broken Glass?

11/9/1938

organized violence against Jews

pogrom

19 year old German Jew that shot German official for his father being deported

Herschel Grynszpan

What was the result of Herschel killing the official?

The NAzis used it as an excuse to okay pogroms against Jews

HOw many were killed in Kristallnacht?

100 Jews

HOw many synagogues/businesses were burned/destroyed in Kristallnacht?

1,000

How many Jews were arrested/sent to concentration camps in Kristallnacht?

30,000

How much were Jews fined for damages?

400 mil

What are concentration camps?

prisons built mostly in Germany

What are death camps?

type of concentration camp in Poland made to kill people. The most famous was auschwitz

What were the mobile killing units behind Blitzkrieg

Einsatzgruppen

What did Einsatzgruppen do?

They killed as many Jews as possible in conquered areas

What were ghettos?

The areas Jews were forced into to segregate them from non-Jews

How many ghettos were built?

over 400

What were the conditions like in the ghettos?

There was very little food, unsanitary conditions, overcramped, and people were forced to do slave labor. Thousands died

What is eugenics?

It is a “science” that attempts to control/improve racial qualities physically/mentally

What type of experiments were conducted and against who?

Racially motivated experiments to change features were conducted on prisoners and twins/multiples.

Who was the “Angel of Death” and oversaw many experiments?

Joseph Mengele

What was the program geared towards German families with disabled relatives that claimed to take care of them but actually killed them.

T-4 Program

What was the first time gas chambers were used

T-4 Program

How many were killed in the T-4 Program?

200,000 killed

What was the Lebensborn Program or the Fountain of LIfe?

It was a program to create “Aryan” babies that were raised by the state. Eventually they started kidnapping children

HOw many babies were created from the Lebensborn Program in Germany?

8,000 babies

HOw many babies were created from the other countries?

8,000 babies

HOw many children were kidnapped?

250,000