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History Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Herta Oberheuser | Physician at concentration camp, experiments on prisoners, murdered child victims of experiments, 20 years in jail, released after 5 |
| Telford Taylor | Chief of Council at Nuremberg Trials |
| Karl Brandt | Director of euthanasia program, lead defendant during Nuremberg Doctors Trials |
| Charles de Gaulle | Leader of French resistance, major political figure in France after WWII |
| Heinrich Himmler | Architect of Hitler's program to exterminate European Jews, head of SS from beginning, chief of all German Police 36 - 45 |
| Robert Ritter | Third Reich leading medical expert on experimentation, performed experiments himself |
| Eva Justin | Experiments on children |
| Reinhard Heydrich | SS General, Chief of RSHA, called Wannsee Conference - wanted to kill more than 11 million Jews |
| Adolf Eichmann | In charge of office that's implementing Final Solution |
| Abba Kovner | Leader of Zionist-Socialist Youth Movement in Lithuania, leader of Jewish Resistance in Vilna, uprising and die with honor |
| Josef Mengele | Nazi doctor at Auschwitz, selected prisoners for execution in gas chambers, conducted medical experiments |
| M. S. St. Louis | Ship with Jewish refugees, denied entry in U. S. and Canada, went back to Europe |
| Transnistria | Occupied territory that Romania used to kill Jews |
| Chelmno | Death camp, messy - dug up bodies and transferred elsewhere because they stank |
| Belzec | Killing center, ran by former T4 expert |
| Sobibor | Killed ONLY Jews, uprising - most were captured, but few lived |
| Treblinka | Jews and Roma from Warsaw killed there, uprising of Sonderkommando, poorly ran, no way to make people think there was something else going on |
| Auschwitz Camp Complex | Next to railways in Poland, Auschwitz I, II, III, primary purpose was slave labor, tattoo numbering system was messy |
| Rosenstrasse Protest | 1943, police arrested Mischlings, locked them in a building, protests to let them go, not ordered to fire because they were considered Aryans, released and survived |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Germans surrendered December 1942, major defeat, not a blitzkrieg |
| Wannsee Conference | Heydrich called the conference, beginning of 42, representatives of German government and military attended, made sure everyone was on the same page, logistics were sorted out, no one objected, mischlings were considered Aryans - minimize disruptions |
| Sonderkommando | Jews who worked in the camp, supposed to be killed every 4 months |
| Nuremberg Trials | Military Tribunals held by Allied Forces after WWII, prosecution of major Nazi political, military, & economic leaders, targeted those who planned & executed the Holocaust & other war crimes, two sets of trials: major war criminals & Nazi doctors & judges |
| Operation Paperclip | Many former scientists that were leaders or members of the Nazi Party that were taken to America for U. S. government employment |
| Heuaktion | German agencies kidnapped children from eastern Europe and sent to German families/factories, re-Germanization |
| General Plan for the East | Directed by Reich Security Main Office, warrant for ethnic cleansing |
| Operation Rienhard | Killing centers created to kill two million people |
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