Zyclon B

-poison gas used to kill jews and metal defectives

-used because it was the cheapest most efficient way to kill masses of people

-began heavy use of Zyclon B after 1942 because it was stipulated as the most effiecent means of killing in the Vansee conference.

Canada

-The name given to warehouses which contained Jewish clothing, shoes, and goods, confiscated from jews that were killed in exterminations camps

-These warehouses were given the name Canada because they were stock piled with tons of valuable goods similar to how the country Canada is rich in resources

Dr. Karl Brandt

-selected as the head of the Nazi Euthanasia program after saving Hitlers chafuer in a car accident

-later in 1944 he was apointed as Hitlers personal physician

Gerhard Rose

-gave prisoners hepatitis to study its effects on them as well as different treatments of the disease so that it could be better treated when german soldiers contracted it.

Karl Gebhardt

-Cut off the limbs of prisoners and transplaned them on to limbless aviators

-Chief Surgion at Hohenlychen hospital

Wolffam Sievers

-charged with proving the inferiority of Jews through faulty scientific experiments and by comparing healthy aryan skeletons to deformed jewish skeletons

-He displayed these deformed Jewish skeletons in univeristies and musuems througout the country

Josef Mengele

-Highly educted M.D. from an affluent family in Germany

-He became the cheif surgeon at Aushwitz and did many harsh medical experiments including sewing to children together.

-He was particularly interested in twins

-Despite his many horrible experiements many former patients refered to him as the protector due to his friendly demeanor and charisma

Endlosung

-The final solution

Endlosung Juden Fragre

-The Final Solution to the Jewish
Problem

Vernichtungslager

-Extermination Camp

Endjuden

-Made up German word meaning to unjewify, was used when refering to the purpose of the Nuremburg Laws

Kristallnacht

-Took place in November 1938 as a reaction to a young jewish boy killing a Nazi Officer. It involved 3 days of brutal violence directed against the Jews across the whole country . It was the first goverment cordinated mass act of violence against the Jews. 100's of Jewish Synagogues were burned down.

-The Jews were also fined 1 billion marks for the damages commited against them in order to satisfy the insurance companies who did not want to pay for the damaged synagogues.

Nuremberg Laws

-The Nuremburg laws were passed in 1935

-stated that all Jews were to have their citizenship revoked and would only be known as subjects of the Reich

-Borrowed from VA laws which defined what a negro and an Indian were according to racial qualities

-It was 13 laws in total which functioned to take everything away from Jews

- One of these Laws was the Protection of Jewish Blood which outlawed marriage and sexual relations between Jews and Ariyans

Law of Revocation of Naturalization

Heriditary Farm Law

-Jews were forbiden from inheriting farm land passed down to them from their relatives.

-It was considered sort of a pointless law since most Jews did not own farms since they were not allowed to traditionally in the middle ages.

The 43rd Gau

-The term used when refering to all full Blooded Germans outside of Germany

-All full blooded outside of Germany were considered German citizens and were encouraged to emigrate back into Germany during the rule of the Nazis

Reinhard Heydrich

-He was the Chairman of the Wannsee Conference who pushed the system of extermination as the solution to the Jewish question

-He was also Deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia where he was assasinated by a Chech with a grenade.

-He was also head of the Reich Main Security Office

Adolf Eichman

-functioned as the secretary of the Wannsee conference

- He was officially part of Jewish Affairs and expulsion office

-Pushed officials with Heydrich to all agree to the extermination plan.

The Wannsee Conference

-Decided that the best way to deal with the Jewish question was to exterminate all 11 million Jews in Germany and the eastern terrritories

-To do this they decided the most efficient way would be to set up death camps that soley functioned to kill Jews and dispose of their bodies using Zyclon B gas and massive furnnaces.

-25 officials from various different Reich departments involved with the Jews were present.

Albert Speer

-The personal Architect of Hitler he was later apointed head of the Todt organization after the Fritz Todt died in a plane crash

-Speer was so good at the job that he produced more planes at the end of the war then in the begining

-Albert Speer was only given 20 years because he took full responcibility for his actions and thus recieved a lesser sentence which was typical in US and English law.

Hermann Goring

-Second in command after Hitler with the officail title of Reichs Marshal

-He was pilot during WWI and was given several medals and honors for his service

-Became head of the Luftewaffe

-Collected art from all over the German conquered cities, confiscated many pieces from the Louvre, loved to dress in fancy uniforms, have exoctic pets, and frequently hunted.

-He personally ordered Reinhard Heydrich in charge of the Wannsee Conference

-He was addicted to morphine throughout his adult life and his adicction got particularly bad towards the end of the war

-Put on trail in Nuremberg where he often embarrssed the prosectution by calling them out on their false accusations as well as bringing up allied war crimes.

-He commited suicide in his cell during the Nuremburg trail when a friendly guard sliped him a synide tablet.