Holocaust Final Terms: Wannsee Conference
Holocaust Final Terms:
Wannsee Conference: * Held on January 20th, 1942 in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee * 15 men gathered to discuss the “Final Solution” * The conference was held by an SS officer named Reinhard Heydrich * The purpose of the conference was to inform administrative leaders of departments responsible for various policies relating to Jews. * Heydrich proposed the deportation of Jews from Europe and North Africa to the east. * By the end of the conference, it was concluded that Jews would be annihilated
Final Solution: * The deliberate and physical annihilation of Jews
“Just Men”: * In 1185, Rabbi Levy tells Jews to return to their own God * Jews agreed to go because Rabbi Levy told …show more content…
25 * Adolf Eichmann was a Nazi who was found and captured in Argentina * Mossad captured him * He was known as the architect of the Final Solution * Put on trial in Israel in 1961, where he was found guilty * At midnight between May 31 and June 1, 1962, Eichmann was executed by hanging
Crisis of 1938:
Schindler’s list * Germany had a 0% unemployment rate but was short on a supply of labor and raw materials * They needed to choose between social projects or military spending * Had to export labor
Richard Heydrich:
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* Nazi official who was head of the …show more content…
* The last ghetto in existence in Poland
Czerniakow: * A Polish Jew * July 23, 1942 was the day he committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill after finding about the liquidation of the ghetto * His suicide was a form of resistance * His wife survived, but his son did not * He was part of the Judenrat in Warsaw ghetto * Judenrat were responsible for rounding up Jews when it was time for them to be killed (This was done under Nazi orders) * In his suicide letter, he stated that he would rather die than to kill other people against his own will
Judenrat: * Jewish council of elders * They were responsible for making Jews work whenever Nazis required them to * Some established a military component in order to organize resistance against Nazis
Operation Barbarossa: * Code name for Hitler’s invasion of Russia (July 1940) * Broke the Soviet-Nazi Non-Aggression Pact and plunged the Soviet Union into WW2 * Hitler’s invasion strategy
Einsatzgruppen: * Composed primarily of SS * Death squads * After the Jews, Gypsies, Political Soviets * Killed Bolsheviks and Partisans * Group formed in 1938, but were known in 1941
Wannsee Conference: * Held on January 20th, 1942 in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee * 15 men gathered to discuss the “Final Solution” * The conference was held by an SS officer named Reinhard Heydrich * The purpose of the conference was to inform administrative leaders of departments responsible for various policies relating to Jews. * Heydrich proposed the deportation of Jews from Europe and North Africa to the east. * By the end of the conference, it was concluded that Jews would be annihilated
Final Solution: * The deliberate and physical annihilation of Jews
“Just Men”: * In 1185, Rabbi Levy tells Jews to return to their own God * Jews agreed to go because Rabbi Levy told …show more content…
25 * Adolf Eichmann was a Nazi who was found and captured in Argentina * Mossad captured him * He was known as the architect of the Final Solution * Put on trial in Israel in 1961, where he was found guilty * At midnight between May 31 and June 1, 1962, Eichmann was executed by hanging
Crisis of 1938:
Schindler’s list * Germany had a 0% unemployment rate but was short on a supply of labor and raw materials * They needed to choose between social projects or military spending * Had to export labor
Richard Heydrich:
02/22
* Nazi official who was head of the …show more content…
* The last ghetto in existence in Poland
Czerniakow: * A Polish Jew * July 23, 1942 was the day he committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill after finding about the liquidation of the ghetto * His suicide was a form of resistance * His wife survived, but his son did not * He was part of the Judenrat in Warsaw ghetto * Judenrat were responsible for rounding up Jews when it was time for them to be killed (This was done under Nazi orders) * In his suicide letter, he stated that he would rather die than to kill other people against his own will
Judenrat: * Jewish council of elders * They were responsible for making Jews work whenever Nazis required them to * Some established a military component in order to organize resistance against Nazis
Operation Barbarossa: * Code name for Hitler’s invasion of Russia (July 1940) * Broke the Soviet-Nazi Non-Aggression Pact and plunged the Soviet Union into WW2 * Hitler’s invasion strategy
Einsatzgruppen: * Composed primarily of SS * Death squads * After the Jews, Gypsies, Political Soviets * Killed Bolsheviks and Partisans * Group formed in 1938, but were known in 1941