Holocaust Test
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- Reinhard Heydrich
- made the final solution
- Hans Frank
- governor of Nazi-occupied Poland
- IVB-4 (4B-4)
- system to make sure all the trains and stuff ran smoothly, and on time. made sure they had all the cattle cars and everything they needed.
- concentration camps
- where they sent the Jews during the Holocaust. There were many of them throughout Europe. some were just concentration camps and others were death camps. these were all used in the process of exterminating the jews
- Canada
- large warehouse in Auschwitz that held the belongings of the Jews who had been gassed
- Partisans
- underground fighters. used gorilla attacks. killed leaders, destroyed things
- Nuremburg Rallies
- (sorry i forgot to ask...ill find it somewhere)
- sho'ah
- Yittish word for Holocaust
- Theresienstadt
- concentration camp. was a model camp. when health people were coming to look at the camps, the Nazis would bring them here because they kept their "slaves" in the best condition. they had health care, clothing, and more food.
- Aryanization
- everybody should be aryan. Jews were fired from their jobs and expelled from school.
- useless eaters
- all inferior people- Jews, Gypsies, Prisoners of War...ext.
- Sonderkommando
- Jews that worked in the killing centers of the camps. had the dirtiest jobs. fed well. killed quickly. usually were the ones to take the dead bodies out of the gas chambers and put them into the crematoria.
- Reichstag Fire
- the Reichstag building was set on fire. Hitler blamed the communists. started the anti-communist belief. Nazis set out to kill all communists
- special treatment
- this was what they did to the "incurably sick". called it special treatment so it sounded better. (sent them to doctors who would later kill them- Operation T4)
- Wilhelm Marr
- author. wrote The Triumph of Jewry Over Germanism. marked a change in the history of Jewish persecution. made the term "anti- semitism"
- Joseph Mengele
- "Dr." Was one of the people who determined the fate of the Jews just by telling them to go to the left or the right. said to be a machine that just moved its finger. had no expression
- S.A (Sturmabteilungen)
- storm troopers. private Nazi army seperate from government armies. called the "Brownshirts". Lead by Ernst Roehm
- General Lendendorff
- important in WWI. involved in the Beer Hall Putsch. gave Hitler respectabilty
- Heinrich Himmler
- head of SS. could only respond to Hitler. had almost unlimited power
- Munich Pact
- agreement between Britain, France, Germany, and Italy. Sudetenland was taken from Nazi Germany. Happened on september 29, 1938
- Rudolf Hoess
- Auschwitz commander. (may be more, but i dont think so...?)
- National Origins Act
- set up a quota system regarding the immigrants that came from other countries. this ended up being the quota during the war.
- resettlement
- Jews were moved from their homes in the ghettos to the concentration camps. the Nazis told many lies and used tricks to get the Jews to believe that they were being moved to a better place. some Jews hid to avoid being resettled.
- euthanasia program
- the doctors killed the "incurably sick" because they were though to be inferior, and damaging to the race
- Jewish Problem
- too many Jews, not enough food to go around, not enough housing to hold them