holocaust exam review 1

During the time of Christ, Jews lived in the Roman Empire. When we learn about the passion of Christ, his death before the Resurrection, we learn that he was murdered by___because He____

Romans. . .challenged Roman authority

In 70 AD (CE) after Christ, th Romans expelled Jews from the Holy Land. Jews were dispersed throughout Europe and Asia and thus, did not have a nation of their own. This term was known as 

Diaspora

The very first Christians, the Apostles were Jews who______.  It was this  separation from Judaism by a new religion that began the schism (split) between the sects. 

accepted Jesus as the Messiah

True or False: Hitler came to power in Germany because of a revolt that he created. 

False

Once Hitler became Chancellor (Prime Minister position) he was able to organize power after a muysterious fire in the govenrment building. The government then impossed harsh laws as part of an "emergency." That was the beginning of his dictatorship. When the president who appointed him died, Hitler assumed complete power over the army, the press and supported violence against anyone who disagreed with the Nazis. He became "the leader." What was the title?

Fuher

In l935, Hitler supported a series of Anitsemitic laws against the German Jews. These were the NUREMBERG Race laws. Jews were deprived of their jobs and schools But the most devstating was that Jews were deprived of their 

Citizenship

One way that Hitler was able to use propaganda to incite antisemtism was through the Nurember Laws--by especially creating the notion of Jews as "other"--different. This notion got many Germans to see Jews as another___even though this is not accurate .

Race

Actions against Jews in Nazi Germany became public and pervasive on November 9, l938 with the organized state sponsored (being govenrment sponsored) violence known as "the Night of Broken Glass" also known as 

Kristallnacht

World War II began with the "Blitzkrieg" Nazi attack on ______and ended in Europe with the Allied takeover of _____

Poland. . . Berlin

Mobile killing squads that were sent into Poland and the Soviet Union to kill civilians

Einsatzgruppen

the name the Nazi government used for Germany under Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945.

Third Reich

Jewis prisoners forced to assist the Nazis in the death camps

Sondercommando

Prisoners who served as supervisors of the prisoners, often were cruel in order to win favor with the SS

Kapos

The elite army that ran the concentration camps

SS

By l941, Nazi officials met to discuss how to msot efficiently kill all of the Jews in Europe. This entailed creating gas chambers and crematoriums. The systematic genocide designed to "solve the Jewish problem" was called the 

final solution

Besides Jews, considered not the "pure Aryan race" who else became enemies of the Third Reich and thus could be deported into camps. 

Jehova Witnesses

Roma (Gypsies)

the disabled

Homosexuals

Dissenters--people of fought againt, hid Jews or protested against the Nazis

After the war, there were various war crimes trials to bring Nazi perpetrtors to justice. There had never been anything like this. But the Holocaust was unique because it was a war that wasn't just about armies fighting eachother; it was a war against innocent civlians. The first and most famous war crimes trial occurred form l945-1946 at____

Nuremberg

These trials were not simply about Germany losing the war or about the normal destruction that occurs during wartime. Instead, the trials focused on deliberate atrocities and crimes committed against civilians, including the mass murder of millions of Jews during the Holocaust, the use of concentration camps, slave labor, medical experiments, and other crimes against humanity. What crimes were the perpetrtors accused of

Crimes against humanity

Crimes against peace

War Crimes