The 'final solution'

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Wannsee conference
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When was the Wansee conference?
20th January 1942
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When was the Wansee conference first mean to be ?
Dec 1941
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Why was the Wansee conference delayed?
The military crisis at Moscow and Pearl Harbor
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How many high-ranking officials from the Nazi party attended?
15
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Who didn't attend the conference?
Hitler and Himmler
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Who led the meeting?
Reinhard Heydrich
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Who was Heydrich?
2nd most powerful man in the **
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Who gave Heydrich orders empowering him to organize preparations for a 'final solution to the 'Jewish question'?
Goering
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Who did some believe Heydrich was acting on?
An unwritten order from Hitler
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What do others think Heydrich's motives were for the Wannsee conference?
Acting on their own initiative to build his power and authority
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What did Heydrich tell the meeting his ultimate aim was?
To exterminate 11 million European Jews
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What was the Plan of how to exterminate the 11 million Jews?
All jews to be brought to Poland and those fit would work and those not would be exterminated
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When had the decision been made for the final solution?
Before the Wannsee conference, the conference was just to implement the policy and inform officals
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After Wannsee who became responsible for the planning and implementation of the 'final solution'?
Adolf Eichmann
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Who was responsible for the running and administration of the camps?
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Who produced Zyklon B for the mass killings?
I G Farben
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What was the operation kept despite involving the mass organization and participation of thousands?
largely a secret
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Heydrich's official speech at the conference
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What did he say about able-bodied jews?
'able-bodied jews will be brought to those regions to build roads'
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What did Heydrich say about what would happen to those working?
'large number will doubtlessly be lost through natural reduction'
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Extermination Camp
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Name the 6 camps purpose-built for extermination
Auschwitz(also an extermination camp), Chelmno, Belzec, Sobidor, Majdanek, Treblinka
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Name the 2 camps adapted to be death camps
Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald
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What was the first death camp?
Chelmo
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When was Chelmno created?
Dec 1941
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Why was Chelmno different to other death camps?
The killing was done by mobile killing vans not gas chambers
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By 1942 what had all extermination camps have?
Railway platform, gas chambers and adjacent crematoria
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Which was the largest death camp and what was the capacity it had to kill people ?
Auschwitz, 20,000
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What did Goeballs do after each defeat eg, Starlingard spring 1943, increased Allied Bombing summer 1943, D-Day summer 1944 ?
Intensified the propaganda war against the Jews
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What happened as the war went against Germany?
Mass killings were accelerated
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What happened to Jews in the occupied territory such as France and Italy?
rounded up for deportation
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Give a stat for the Jews in Amsterdam
In Feb 1944 the remaining Jews of Amsterdam were deported to Auschwitz
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Despite Germany facing inevitable defeat in Summer 1944, what happened?
They didn't abandon the 'Final solution' but escalated it
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Give an example of the Nazi's destroying evidence of Death camps as Soviet Troops advanced in Poland
November 1944 they attempted to destroy evidence of the crematoria at Auschwitz
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Between 1942-1944 how many Jews died at Auschwitz alone?
over 2.5 million
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Death marches
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What happened since autumn 1944 ?
Nazi regime carried out a frantic evacuation of the camps
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When Camps were shut down what were prisoners forced to do?
Marched long hours westwards as the Red Army advanced
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Why did hundreds died in these death marches?
malnutrition, illness, effects of cold weather and shot by guards
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How many died on these death marches?
250,000-400,000
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How many prisoners died from Jan 1945 to the war's end?
1/2 of all prisoners
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The end of the war
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What was never completed?
the 'final solution'
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When did Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz?
January 1945
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What camps did American troops liberate (in the west)?
Dachau and Mauthausen
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Which camps did British Troops liberate (north)?
Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald
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When were the full horrors of the Camp revealed?
May 1945 (after Hitlers death)
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How many Jews were killed in the holocaust?
6 million
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Overall how many non-Jews (slaves, Poles, Russians, Gypsies, Homosexuals, mentally ill and disabled) were killed?
over 7 million
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