Fuhrer meaning
Title of president and chancellor combined - supreme leader
Gestapo meaning
Secret nazi police
Aryan meaning
Race of pure Germans
Concentration camp meaning
A prison where civilians and political prisoners were held
Sterilisation meaning
Surgery to prevent pregnancy
What did German children learn
Girls - how to become housewives
Boys - how to become soldiers
What were young children forced to join
Hitler youth clubs teaching them the values of Hitler Germany
What did German children study
Eugenics - the idea of the aryan race and lesser Jews
What are the three words to summarise the persecution of Jews
They were bullied, banned from areas and had their businesses boycotted
What happened in 1935
Neurenburg laws removed German Jews citizens ship and banned interracial marriage
What attack took place in 1938
Kristallnacht which was an organised attack on Jews after a French Jew shot a nazi
What was the result of kristallnacht and it’s meaning
Night of broken glass
100 synagogues were burned down, 300 Jews were murdered and 30,00o Jews sent to camps
What had happened by 1939
A third of germanys Jews left for places like America, Uk and Palestine’s as well as the borders
What happened during the war
German Jews were moved to ghettos where 600,000 died
How many Jews were murdered
6 million
What was the ripple effect on European Jews
They also had to follow the German laws and lost citizenships. Ghettos like Warsaw gained a population of 440,00
What group rounded up Jews to gas and kill them
Einsatzgruppen
Who could go to concentration camps
Any enemies of the state
Who coydk go to death camps
Only Jews
What happened when they arrived at these camps
They were sorted between a group to immediately be gassed and people to work on the camp
How would nazis describe the gas chambers
As showers therefore gave them towels and soap whilst playing music
How long did gas chambers take the kill everyone
30 minutes
Did anyone know about what was happening
Many German companies helped provide the machinery in camos or employed Jews as slaves.
Many knew of the genocide but were powerless
Who was elsbeth rosenfeld
A Christian who married a Jewish man and was persecuted
She ran away to Switzerland
