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The Holocaust

Hitler Moves Against the Jews

1. How many Jews lived in Germany in 1933?

2. Do the Nazis introduce anti-Semitism in Germany?

3. Why start with anti-Semitic Propaganda?

April 1933- First Anti-Semitic Law

1. How did the anti-Semitic laws start?

2. What does it mean to boycott something?

3. How do cities move against the Jews?

4. What does “Juden Verbotten” mean?

5. What does the Average German think?

1935- Nuremberg Laws

1. Is Judaism a race or a religion?

2. What was the Law?3. How is one determined

to be Jewish?4. How many people

became Jewish under this law?

5. Why is this period called the 1st Solution?

Krystallnacht- Nov. 1938

1. What was the cause of Krystallnacht?

2. What was Krystallnacht? Why is it considered a pogrom?

3. How did the Nazis treat the Jews after the attack?

4. What was the Evian Conference?

The Second Solution

1. What was it?2. Was it a permanent

solution?3. What is it a new idea?4. What was the

Government General?5. What happened to the

Jewish property?6. Who was in charge?

The Ghettos

1. Where were they set up?2. Who Guarded them?3. How did they keep the Jews in and Poles out?4. What is a curfew?Article #2

The Wannsee Conference

1. When and where was the Conference?

2. What was decided?

3. Who was put in charge?

4. How was the Final Solution to be run?

Jewish Badges and Setting up the Camps

1. What were the badges the Jews had to wear?

2. Who else wore the badges?

3. What is the difference between a Concentration/Labor Camp and an Extermination Camp?

4. Who guarded the camps?

5. Where were the camps set up?

The Trip to the Camps

1. Where did the Jews normally go before the camps?

2. What was “resettlement?”

3. How brutal were the trips to the camps?

4. What were the Jews normally told when they arrived at a camp?

The Selektion

1. How were the Jews forced off the trains?

2. Why were they put in lines?

3. What was the selektion?

4. Was there always a selektion?

The Gas Chambers

1. Why were the gas chambers disguised as showers?

2. What other ruses did the Nazis use in the death process?

3. What gasses were used?

4. What happened in the chambers?

The Crematoria

1. Why not bury bodies or burn in pits?

2. What were the crematoria?

3. What happened to the bodies before sent to the crematoria?

4. What to do with the Ash?

Those Picked to Live

1. Who was picked to live? How were they marked?

2. What was life like?

3. What work did the do?

4. What happened when they could no longer work?

The Sonderkommando

1. Who were they? What happened if they refused?

2. What were their jobs?

3. Why were they periodically liquidated?

4. Dilemma: Should they tell the Jews what is about to happen to them?

The Medical Experiments

1. Who was picked for the medical experiments?

2. Who was in charge?

3. What were the experiments?

4. What happened after the experiment?

5. Should we use what the Nazis found in these experiments?

Results of Holocaust

1. How many Jews were murdered in the Holocaust?

2. What nations were hit the hardest?

3. What is survivor’s guilt?

Nuremberg Trials

1. Who was on trial at the Nuremberg Trials?

2. Why Nuremberg?

3. Why give the Nazis fair court trials?

4. What is a “Crime Against Humanity?”

5. What was the most common defense?

6. Why was Israel formed?