Cite 2 reasons why the Nazis adopted gas as a killing method.
It acted faster, cheaper, and did not hurt the pride of German soldiers.
What's the propaganda saying?
It's comparing the Jews to rats, therefore a problem/should be erradicated.
Places where Jews, political prisoners, gypsies, and other enemies of Hitler and the Nazis were taken during World War II
Concentration Camps
The Nazi term for the anihilation of Jews in Europe.
Final Solution
Aprroximately how many Jews were killed during the Holocaust?
6 million.
Why did Spanish monarchs authorized the Inquisition to persecute Jews and others?
To purify Spanish society.
Cite 3 groups persecuted by the Inquisition during the Middle and Modern Ages.
Jews, Muslims and Pagans.
What's antisemitism?
Hatred toward the ones who follow Judaism.
Book published in 1905 claiming that a Jews have been conspiring to dominate the world economic, polically and culturally.
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
What happened during an "auto de fé"?
Sentences were ruled and accuseds were punished by the Inquisitors.
What's the name given to Jews who converted to Catholicism in Spain?
Conversos.
How did the Nazis get rid of the bodies after the gas chambers?
They were incinerated in crematoriums.
What can be considered the first antisemitic idea?
The idea/accusation that Jews had been involved in the crucification of Jesus Christ.
People were led to the gas chambers believing that they were going to _________.
take a shower
The largest of the German death camps.
Auschwitz
Anti-jewish ____________ was massively used by the Nazi Party to spread lies about the Jews to the German public.
propaganda
The symbol Jews were forced to wear as an identification.
Yellow Star of David.
Although the Inquisition persecuted "all enemies of the Church", the Slavs were more targeted than others. TRUE or FALSE?
FALSE.
What's the term for Hitler's superior race?
Aryans
A small section of the city in which Jews were forced to live.
Ghetto
__________ is the name given to the intentional destruction of a people.
Genocide
Was during the Wannsee Conference that the Nazis decided to exterminate the Jews?
No, during the meeting they decided/informed on the method.
What are Jews accused of during the Middle Ages?
They were accused of poisoning wells and killing christian children to use their blood.
Cite one antisemitic practice during the MIDDLE AGES.
Jews were forced to live in ghettos, could not own land, were forced to use identification symbols.
One country that Jews fled to after expelled from Spain in 1492.
Turkey and Germany.
Name given to the laws that changed who could be a German citizen.
Nuremberg Laws
What's the propaganda saying?
It's saying that Jews will be the destruction of others and do not care about it, only about themselves and getting richer.