Holocaust

Question 1

The Holocaust was fought for what?

Answer 1

Racial purity

Question 2

When did the path to the Holocaust start?

Answer 2

BEFORE WWII

Question 3

What was Hitler’s ideology for the war?

Answer 3

• wanted a racial pure culture
• wanted to eliminate everyone who had imperfections
• specifically blamed the Jews for the failure of WWI and for all of their problems
• believed in anti-semitism

Question 4

What started the path to the Holocaust?

Answer 4

Kristallnacht

Question 5

What does kristallnacht stand for –

Answer 5

“Night of broken glass”

Question 6

Where did kristallnacht take place?

Answer 6

Germany, Austria, and other German areas

Question 7

What was the purpose of kristallnacht?

Answer 7

It was coordinated deadly attacks on Jews

Question 8

What happened to the Jews during this?

Answer 8

Their stores, homes, &synagogues were destroyed and most were arrested
(First time Nazis attacked the Jews on a large scale)

Question 9

Aryanization policies –

Answer 9

Laws that excluded or removed them from economic and social life

Question 10

What laws did the Jews have to follow in the aryanization policies –

Answer 10

• no Jewish business
• Jewish children could not go to German schools
• could not have a car/license
• could not get into movie theaters/concerts/halls

Question 11

Jewish cemeteries were ______________ and Jews were sent to ______________.

Answer 11

Vandalized; camps

Question 12

What was kritallnacht the turning point for?

Answer 12

Jewish persecution

Question 13

What happened during the invasion of Poland?

Answer 13

Nazis gained control of most of Europe and “germanized” the land through ruthless tactics

Question 14

What else was Germany doing during the war?

Answer 14

• taking Jewish property
• requiring Jews to wear armbands (star of David)
• established ghettos and forced-labor camps

Question 15

Who was part of Hitler’s “sub-human” group?

Answer 15

• European Jews
• anyone with disabilities
• gypsies
• mentally ill
• homosexuals
• communists, socialists
• & any other group termed undesirable

Question 16

What is Hitler’s Plan called?

Answer 16

The Final Solution

Question 17

What was the plan in the Final Solution?

Answer 17

To exterminate the Jews

Question 18

Genocide –

Answer 18

Deliberate mass murder of an entire race

Question 19

Systemic murder –

Answer 19

The Holocaust (sacrifice by fire)

Question 20

What do the Germans do to the Jews?

Answer 20

Round them up and take them to concentration camps

Question 21

What were concentration camps also known as –

Answer 21

Death camps

Question 22

What was the life expectancy of someone at the camps?

Answer 22

6 weeks

Question 23

When the Jews first got to the camps what happened?

Answer 23

Many were immediately gassed

especially women, children, and the weak

Question 24

Humiliation –

Answer 24

Heads shaved, stripped, had numbers as tattoos on their arms, stripped prison uniforms

Question 25

What were the Jews forced to do at the camps?

Answer 25

Meaningless, hard labor

Question 26

How did many of the Jews die at the camps?

Answer 26

- starved to death - died of malnutrition and disease - some underwent painful, inhumane,"medical" experiments

Question 27

How were the conditions of the camps?

Answer 27

Brutal

Question 28

Why did this continue?

Answer 28

- nazi propaganda - totalitarianism - disbelief - most people pretended not to notice

Question 29

How did the Germans "hide" what they were doing with the Jews?

Answer 29

-buried their articles in the New York Times -put articles on the back page -left out key details (never said the word Jew) (Most people did not know it was genocide-but some did and did nothing)

Question 30

Liberation --

Answer 30

Set free

Question 31

What happened when the Allies started to sweep through Europe?

Answer 31

They started to encounter the concentration camps-- set people free

Question 32

What did the Allies see at these camps?

Answer 32

- (for the first time) the horrific atrocities committed on their fellow man - found unspeakable conditions - piles of corpses - unearthed mass graves

Question 33

All of the survivors looked like what --

Answer 33

Skeletons

Question 34

After the liberation of the camps --

Answer 34

The full scope of Nazi horrors were seen

Question 35

What did the Germans try to do when the Allies neared them?

Answer 35

Tried to hide the evidence by demolishing camps and burning corpses

Question 36

What was found in the warehouses near the camps?

Answer 36

Personal belongings of the victims

Question 37

How many Jews died at the end of WWII?

Answer 37

6 million Jews (90% of Jewish population in Europe)

Question 38

Most of the Jews were --

Answer 38

Executed, tortured, gassed, starved to death, worked to death, but some escaped

Question 39

Nuremberg trials --

Answer 39

13 trials that tried against Nazis as criminals

Question 40

They crimes the Germans made were known as?

Answer 40

Crimes against humanity

Question 41

What happened to the German criminals --

Answer 41

Most were executed/convicted

Question 42

Who was part of the German criminals?

Answer 42

Highly ranked generals, lawyers and doctors (anyone involved)

Question 43

What happened to Hitler and the top two officials?

Answer 43

- never brought to trial - did not come to justice - they all committed suicide

Question 44

What was the impact of the Nuremberg Trials?

Answer 44

-established international law

Question 45

What was the international law called?

Answer 45

Untied Nations Genocide Convention & Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Question 46

Precedent for --

Answer 46

Japanese WWII criminals

Question 47

Established of tribunals for war crimes committed in the former ___________ & in ___________.

Answer 47

Yugoslavia; Rwanda

Question 48

What does the word Holocaust mean?

Answer 48

Sacrifice by fire