History 6

Question 1

MASTER RACE THEORY

Answer 1

Destined for greatness and rule

Either you are a help or you are a
burden.

Those who contribute little, yet use up
resources need to be eliminated

Question 2

“LIFE UNWORTHY OF LIFE”

Answer 2

Who fits in this category, according to
the Nazis?

Jews

Gypsies

Homeless

Juvenile delinquents

Disabled persons

Question 3

WHAT WAS DONE WITH THESE PEOPLE?

Answer 3

Slandered

Ostracized

Sterilized

Concentration camps

Euthanized

Question 4

SLANDERED

Answer 4

Labeled publicly as a drag on society

Shift public opinion

Shame vs. Honor

Question 5

OSTRACIZED

Answer 5

Jewish businesses boycotted (April ‘33)

Jews purged from government offices

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
Nov. 1938 (Nazis attacked Jewish people and property)

Jews and Gypsies required to register
with the government-set apart as
“other”

Question 6

STERLILIZED

Answer 6

Sterilization law (July 1933) authorized
sterilization of people with certain
illnesses

Loosely worded, and therefore easy to
abuse

Nearly 700,000 people sterilized

Question 7

CONCENTRATION CAMPS

Answer 7

Undesirables sent to Concentration
Camp

Initially, most were forced labor and
prison camps

Eventually, Nazis began designing and
building camps away from public view

These were where the true horrors
developed.

Question 8

EUTHANIZED

Answer 8

In ’39, Nazis began to secretly kill some
deemed “undesirable

Specifically mentally and physically ill

Included infants, children, and teenagers

Question 9

THE FINAL SOLUTION

Answer 9

Attempt to systematically kill all Jews

Began in 1941 (not the first killings of
Jews)

Extermination camps built specifically for
this purpose

Over 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis