World History
Ms. Avar
Point Value:
/5 / / Holocaust
Q & A / Full Name:______
Period #:______
Today’s Date:______
Assignment #:______

Instructions: Use your book (p. 502-505), and info from Ms. Avarto write the questions to the answers provided below. (If absent, make an appointment to see the sample binder for answers or visit the class webpage)

  1. What is “______”: Systematic killing of an ______

What was “______”?

Systematic mass killing of ______and other groups considered ______by Nazis

  1. When speaking about the Holocaust what ______are we referring to?

______Hitler chancellor to ______(“Victory in Europe” – end of war)

  1. How many Jews were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust? ______

According to the chart, in how many countries were Jews murdered during the Holocaust? ______

From which country were the most Jews killed? ______

How many? ______What percentage of its Jewish population was that? ______%

  1. What are ______? Germanic peoples / non-Jewish Caucasians (often blonde hair, blue eyes)

What is ______?

______against or hostility towards ______, often rooted in hatred of their ethnic background

(Nazis implemented master race (Aryan) policy everywhere Nazis conquered)

  1. What was the “______”? Hitler’s mobile killing squads
  1. What were the first measures taken by the Nazis against the Jews?

______of businesses, barred from civil service and law, kept out ______

  1. What were the ______?

Deprived Jews of ______and prohibited ______between Jews and other Germans.

  1. What happened on ______? (“Night of ______”) November 9-10, 1938?

Nazi attack on Jewish people & their property. 91 murdered, 25-30 thousand sent to concentration camps

  1. What are ______? Neighborhoods in which European ______were ______.

1939- Jews are gathered into Ghettos where they could be easily gathered and sent to camps.

Forced to wear the ______.

  1. What were ______?

Germany set them up early in the 1930s (before World War II ever started) / People beaten, tortured. After war started – camps supplied labor to factories / Many died from exhaustion / Medical Experimentation… torture / Auschwitz, Chelmo, Belzec, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka / All railroads throughout Europe lead to Auschwitz/ Eventually, some labor camps turned into death camps: Installed gas chambers. / 10,000 people killed every day / Jews were told they were going to labor camps or resettlement farms / Herded, stripped, inspected, sorted, shaved, poisoned, burned…

  1. ______, which groups in Germany were sent to the concentration camps and considered______? Mentally and physically ill, Gypsies, Polish intelligentsia (educated), resistance fighters, opponents of Nazism, homosexuals, criminals, beggars, vagrants (appx. ______of these non-Jewish people also killed)
  1. What does the term “______” mean, and ______?

“Final Solution to the Jewish problem”

The problem = the existence of the Jews (they must be ______) - ______

  1. ______?

Distorted world view, prejudice, hatred, saw Jewish race as trying to take over the world, propaganda showing Jews as an obstruction to Aryan dominance, duty to eliminate the Jews, scapegoating (false blame) for losing WWI & Great Depression, etc.

  1. ______?

First measures and ideas were common knowledge – discrimination, boycotting, ghettos, deportation, concentration camps, Kristallnacht. However, the Final Solution was not publicized. Rumors spread about the gas chambers and people disappearing.

  1. ______?

Although the entire German population was not in agreement with Hitler’s persecution of the Jews, there is no evidence of large scale protest regarding their treatment. People who did not follow the Nazi plan and ways risked deportation and persecution themselves.

  1. ______?______?

It was inadequate: Allies condemned Nazi persecution but only made a declaration – no action was taken. One agency – the War Refugee Board - was established for the purpose of saving the Jews. Few efforts were successful. Yes, they could have done more… aid, large scale efforts… but they didn’t.

  1. ______?

Every attempt was made to fool the Jewsabout the Final Solution. They believed the conditions in the places they were being deported to would be better than the ghettos and they would be reacquainted with family. Inmates in concentration camps were forced to write home describing the “wonderful conditions”.

  1. ______?

Very few records of this – secret, hiding, etc. It is thought that fewer than 500,000 were able to escape. Some of those escaped to areas that were later conquered by Hitler and captured. Some organizations aided in the escape of the Jews in Europe, but many countries had closed their borders to the immigrants – no place to go.

  1. ______?______?

Some escaped / Some organized forces in camps – BUT, it was difficult – weak and risky

  1. ______?

Held in Nuremberg, Germany, from 1945 to 1946, judges from the Allied powers -- Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States -- presided over the hearings of 22 major Nazi criminals and leaders.

(Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death. Most of the defendants admitted to the crimes of which they were accused, although most claimed that they were simply following the orders of a higher authority. Adolf Hitler had committed suicide in the final days of the war, as had several of his closest aides. Many more criminals were never tried. Some fled Germany to live abroad, including hundreds who came to the United States.