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Aqa A Level History Democacy and Nazism
The impact of War
The Final Solution
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How many Jews and other ‘undesirables’ were murdered during the Holocaust?
About 6 million Jews and about 5 million others.
Where and when was the Final Solution agreed upon?
At the
Wannsee
Conference on
20th January 1942.
Who chaired the meeting at Wannsee?
Reinhard Heydrich
-
second
in command of the SS.
Which was given a higher focus when the war turned against Germany: the killing of the Jews or military needs?
The killing of the Jews.
Which event caused Goebbels to give his ‘total war’ speech?
The
German
defeat at
Stalingrad
in February 1943.
After Stalingrad, which other 2 events caused the Jews to be targeted more so?
The heightened
Allied bombing
campaign in 1943.
The
D-Day
landings in 1944.
At what late point did the Nazis start trying to conceal what they had been doing to the Jews?
November 1944
(e.g. the crematorium at
Auschwitz
was blown up).
What is the difference between a concentration camp and a death camp?
Not all concentration camps became places of extermination. But a death camp’s purpose was to
kill
the
inmates.
Which gas was settled upon as the favoured method of gassing inmates?
Zyklon B
- a
rat poison.
What other Death Camps existed other than Aushwitz
-Treblinka
-Belzec
-Sobibor
-Chelmno
Which Jewish brothers fought from within Polish forestland and saved 1200 Jews from the Nazis?
The Bielski brothers.
Which Jewish uprising lasted from Jan 1943 to May 1943?
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- the Germans required massive
military firepower
to crush this uprising.
How many people died on the death marches as the Nazis began to move the camp inmates westward in 1944?
Between
250,000
and
400,000.
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