History 61-73
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- Paul Blobel
- Special Action Group C responsible for the killing of over 35,000 Jews at Babi Yar
- Zyklon-B
- hydrogen cyanide used to kill Jews in the gas chambers. It was manufactured by the Dessauer Works.
- Social Darwinism
- Applying the theories of Charles Darwin to the social order.
- Wilhelm Kietel
- General field marshall and chief of staff of the High Command of the armed forces.
- Josef Mengele
- Chief medical officer at Birkneau, Auschwitz.
- Jurgen Stroop
- SS and police leader at, Warsaw. Responsible for the defeat of the warsaw Ghetto uprising.
- Klaus Barbie
- Gestapo chief in Lyons, France. Known as the butcher of France.
- Charles Davenport
- established the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Springs Harbor in New York. Tried to demonstrate how social traits such as pauperism, criminality, and prostitution are inherited
- Bermunda Conference
- (9 April 1943) G.B. and the U.S. refused to help the Jewish people in Europe. Eventually 630 were allowed to immigrant to Africa
- racial hygiene
- refers to the practice and conditions that prompted health. In post WWI in Germany it referred to getting rid of the "unfit"
- Reinheydrich
- Head of the Reich Security Main Office. Leading architect of the Final Solution.
- Martin Bormann
- Hitler's private secretary.
- Francis Galton
- an English mathematician coined the word to describe efforts "at race betterment" It comes from the Greek word meaning "good in birth"