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Nuremburg Laws
Laws passed in Germany that deprived Jews of rights. The Jews were removed as citizens, no marriages between jews and non jews, and they were limited work. Overtime they were removed from basially everything, like schools, and jobs. This happened, because they didn't want Jews anywhere. -
The Evian Conference
Conference was called by FDR, international conference to discuss the growing number of Jewish refugees fleeing Germany. 31 of the 32 nations including the United States and Great Britain, refuse to open their doors to more immigrants. Hitler vowed to help Jews leave, if someone would take them. -
Kristallnacht
"Night of Broken Glass" Response to 17-year-old Jew named Herschel Grynszpan who shot and killed a German Diplomat in Paris response to his father's deportation to Poland. Nazi troops attack Jewish businesses and synagogues across Germany & Austria. Over 2,000 Jews murdered that night and 30,000 Jewish men arrested and sent to COncentration Camps -
The Warsaw Ghetto Opens
Nazis established Ghettos to keep Jews contained. A Ghetto was a self-contained area, that was surrounded by fences, walls or armed guards. About 2 million Jews were under Nazi control. Nazis idea was too remove and isolate Jews and force them into starvation and disease -
Wannsee Conference
A conference where the "final solution to the jewish question" was answered. Nazis agree to genocide, or the deliberate destruction of an entire ethnic or cultural group. So they begin to construct death camps for Jews -
Death Camps Open
Jews wore stripped clothes, and were made to think they will get a shower. Instead, ordorless Zyklon B gas is released into room, people die in a few minutes. Bodies are then collected and burned to destroy evidence. Some camps were strictly for exterminations like Treblinka, and Belzec. Then there were camps used for work and extermination like Auschwitz. -
Jews Resistance
Most violent resistance came from Warsaw Gheto. 50,000 Jews resisted deportation to Treblinka, they had learned the fate of 300,000 friends at Treblinka. Resistance lasted for almost 1 month using pistols and homemade bombs. Eventually, the Germans crushed the revolt. -
Death Marches
As allied armies advanced in the war, Germans moved prisoners onto German soil. The Jews were marched and transportated to different camps. (The Germans still wanted to exploit Jewish slave labour from the concentration camps). Death marches often lasted for weeks at a time. Up to 250,000 people died due to the appalling conditions they faced either through marching on foot or being herded into freight cars. -
War Refugee Board
Created by FDR, over the objection of the State Department. The United States knew about the Jews mass murderas early as November 1942. Board created to help people threatened by the Nazis. It helped to save over 200,000 lives. (Mixed Reviews "too little, too late") -
Nuremberg Trials
Nazi Leaders were charged with crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. International Military Tribunal composed of members selected by the US, GB, USSR, FR. 12 of 24 Nazi defendants receive the death penalty. Hitler and Himmler were not tried because they had already committed suicide.
