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Holocaust History - PowerPoint #3

1.  About how many Jews did the Nazis plan on killing?

2.  Reinhard Heydrich called the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942. What was the purpose of this meeting?

3.  Where was the Final Solution to begin? Why?

4.  Provide THREE problems Nazis faced in trying to wipe out all of Europe’s Jews.

5.  Describe how the Nazis used the T4 program to murder ill and insane adults.

6.  What were Hitler’s concentration camps like? How long did the Nazis intend to keep concentration camps open?

7.  Who were some of the groups of people that the Nazis considered “guilty” and fit for the concentration camps?

8.  Why were the trains to the concentration camps so unbearable for the prisoners?

9.  Many times the Nazis didn’t bring prisoners directly to the concentration camps. Where were they sent instead?

10.  Approximately how much money did the Nazis make off of the items they stole?

11.  Each group of inmates was identified by a badge. Provide the color and symbol:

Group / Color / Symbol
Political
Jehovah’s Witness
Anti-social (mentally ill, alcoholics)
Criminal
Homosexual
Gypsy
Jew

12.  Describe the conditions in the barracks where the concentration camp inmates lived.

13.  What phrase hung over the camp entrance to Dachua? What does it mean?

14.  What did women in Vught Concentration Camp eat for breakfast?

15.  What did inmates at the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp do?

16.  What disease spread quickly in Bergen-Belsen?

17.  How many people were crammed into a stable in Buchenwald?

18.  What were prisoners forced to do at Mauthausen?

19.  What other camp was built near Auschwitz to house more prisoners?

20.  Although selections for gas chambers took place at regular intervals, what was one other reason prisoners were sent?

21.  What kind of inhuman experiments did Dr. Josef Mengele, “Angel of Death,” perform on concentration camp inmates?

22.  What was the mantra (a commonly repeated word or phrase) at the camps?

23.  Provide the SIX rules for surviving in the camp.

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24.  What was one reason for living?