20) Policies towards Jews (1949-41)

• How many Soviet Jews came under German control after Operation Barbarossa in 1941?


  3 million
• Jews required to have a police permit to travel


  1941
• From when were all Jews required to wear a yellow star of David badge?

  December 1941
• What are Ghettos?


  districts restricted to particular groups where Jews were forcibly deported
• First Jewish Ghetto

  Set up in Lodz, Poland in Feb 1940
• How many people lived in the Warsaw ghetto at its peak?

  400,000
• Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto

  1943 - created arms and bunkers in secret to use against Germans and would also purposefully make bombs used in the war faulty
• Food in the Warsaw ghetto

  given 200 calories a day

  80% of food came from smuggling from outside the ghetto
• What percentage of Polish Jews died overall?

  90%
• When did Nazis begin deporting people out of ghettos and into death camps?

  1942
• How many Polish Jews died in the Warsaw ghetto?

  approx. 1/2 million
• What was the Einsatzgruppen?


  temporary units of troops and police as a branch of the SS that aimed to kill Jews and the 'undesirable
• When were gas vans used?

  From 1941
• When did the Einsatzgruppen disband?


  1944
• How many men sent to eliminate communist officials, partisans and Jewish Bolshevist intelligentsia after invasion of oviet Union?


  4 special groups of 600-1000 men
• How many Jews killed by the Einsatzgruppen and auxiliary troops overall ?

  1.3 million Jews
• Police Battalion 309


  Carried out massacre in Poland on 27 June 1941

  40,000 'ordinary' men involved