Bombing, anti-Semitism and Genocide

Question 1

When did air raids start on Germany?

Answer 1

1940

Question 2

How many were killed in Hamburg in 1943?

Answer 2

30,000 - emergency services unable to cope

Question 3

How many killed in Dresden and what year?

Answer 3

150,000 in 1945

Question 4

How much property was destroyed?

Answer 4

70%

Question 5

What did bombing cause in Germany?

Answer 5

Prevented them from reaching economic potential, caused industrial destruction and a breakdown in communications

Question 6

Why did morale stay high?

Answer 6

• Belief in Hitler’s ‘1000 year Reich’
• Gestapo pressure
• Belief in a German super weapon
• Bombing united people

Question 7

How many Jews were brought under Nazi control in Poland?

Answer 7

3 million

Question 8

What were created in 1941?

Answer 8

ghettos

Question 9

How many Jews were shot in 1941-42?

Answer 9

700,000

Question 10

What group carried out the killings?

Answer 10

SS Einsatzgruppen

Question 11

What did Jews have to wear from December 1941?

Answer 11

Star of David

Question 12

What was the ‘final solution’?

Answer 12

Term used to describe extermination of the Jews

Question 13

What was the Wannsee conference?

Answer 13

Conference held to discuss the fate of the Jews - 1942 January

Question 14

What was the method of extermination discussed?

Answer 14

Gas extermination

Question 15

What was destroyed in 1943?

Answer 15

Warsaw ghetto - jews transported to death camps

Question 16

Was the final solution planned?

Answer 16

YES
- Hitler committed to extermination of the Jews from early in his career
- Holocaust intended as Germans took part in it
NO
- No written orders for killing the Jews
- Only decided in 1941 and agreed at Wannsee in 1942