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Nazi Rule:
Hitler Comes to Power
1) What was the name of the weak
government of Germany created after World War I?
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2) To which levels or members of German society did the Nazi Party
of Adolph Hitler appeal?
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The Nazi Terror Begins
3) The USHMM website states that tens of thousands
of young, unemployed German men were "lured by the wages, a feeling
of comradeship, and the striking uniforms," to join which organization
within the Nazi Party? Give both the English and German terms.
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4) What did these "auxiliary policemen" do to those
who opposed the Nazi regime?
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The SS Police State
5) What was the name of the Protective Squad that
began as a special guard for Adolph
Hitler and other party
leaders? Describe their role in the affairs of the Nazi Party.
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Nazi Racism
6) What was Hitler's term for the "master race?" Describe
this type of person.
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7) Other than Jews, what types of German citizens
were victims of Nazi racial ideology?
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Anti-Semitism
8) Define anti-Semitism. How far does it go
back? What does the term pogrom mean?
In what other
nations were Jews treated as
scapegoats?
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The Jews
In Germany
9) How many Jews lived in Germany at the time
of the 1933 census? How many of these
Jews were German citizens?
How were the remaining German Jews classified?
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The
Nuremberg Laws
10) How
did the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 classify people in Germany as Jewish
(by what
standard did the government judge if a person was Jewish)?
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11) How did the Nazi government identify Jews within
the society of Germans in general?
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See this artifact for a visual of the answer above:
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/jewish-badge-during-the-nazi-era
12) View the artifact found by way of the link above. Describe
the artifact. What does it say?
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Boycott of Jewish Businesses
13) How did the Storm Troopers carry out the boycott
of Jewish businesses on April 1, 1933.
Even though the boycott was
not very successful, tell why it was important.
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German Occupied Europe
14) Which European nation was
treated the harshest under German rule? Give two examples of the
type of rule Germany placed on that nation. Which nation was treated
the easiest?
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The Night of Broken Glass
15) Tell what happened on the night of November 9,
1938. What is the German name for
this event? What caused the violence?
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The Evian Conference
16) Who called the Evian Conference? When was it called
and for what purpose did it
meet? _____________________________________________________________
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17) List one reason why efforts to allow more refugees
into the US failed before World
War II. ____________________________________________________________
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Map:
Jewish
Emigration from Germany: 1933
18) Looking at the map, which country accepted the
most Jews during this period?
How many Jews escaped to Palestine?
To Shanghai?
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The Final Solution
19) What was the goal of the "final solution?" What
is the definition of the term
"genocide?" ________________________________________________________
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20) Describe the two major stages of the Nazi plan
to carry out the "final solution."
How many Jews were gassed in
extermination camps?
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21) What were the einsatzgruppen? What methods
did they use most often to carry out
their activities? in what nation
did they operate
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Ghettos
22) In what city was the largest of the Jewish "residential
quarters" found? How many
ghettos existed in all of the occupied
territories?
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
23) Describe the events of April 19, 1943 in the Warsaw
Ghetto. How did the uprising
come to an end? What happened to the
Jews of the Warsaw ghetto?
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The Wannsee Conference
24) What was the purpose of the Wannsee Conference?
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Auschwitz
25) How many people died at Auschwitz? What percentage
of them were Jewish?
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26) What was the goal of some of the medical experiments
carried out by SS doctor Josef
Mengele? __________________________________________________________
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Killing Centers
27) What was the most common method that Nazis committed mass
murder at the killing centers?
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Map:
Killing Centers Gallery
28) Use the map to list the major killing centers and extermination
camps in Poland
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Liberation
29) For each of the Allied army groups below, identify which
killing center(s) was liberated
by each:
Soviet Forces: ____________________________________________________
American Forces: __________________________________________________
British Forces: _____________________________________________________
30) Why did about half of the concentration camp inmates die
within a few weeks of
liberation? _________________________________________________________
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The Survivors
31) What led Great Britain to change its mind about
establishing a Jewish homeland in its
territory of Palestine? __________________________________________________
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32) What nation was formed from the division of Jewish
and Arab territory in Palestine?
When did it achieve independence?
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The Nuremberg Trials
33) How many Nazi leaders were put on trial in Nuremberg?
How many were sentenced
to death? __________________________________________________________
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35) Who found Adolph Eichmann? What was he convicted
of and what was his sentence?
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