Holocaust

Question 1

Dachau

Answer 1

First concentration camp in Germany.

Question 2

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Answer 2

Located in Poland, largest death camp built by the Nazis; over 2,000,000 people died there by means of starvation, diease, and gassing; Birkenau is often referred to as Auschwitz II.

Question 3

Josef Mengele

Answer 3

The “Angel of Death” of Auschwitz known for his medical experimentation, especially on twins, and his decisions as to who would die.

Question 4

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 4

Placed severe restrictions of Jews, prohibited from marrying non- Jews, attending schools or universities, holding government jobs, practicing law or medicine or publishing books.

Question 5

Schutzstaffel

Answer 5

A special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925.

Question 6

Mein Kampf

Answer 6

“My Struggle”-a book written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment in 1923-1924, in which he set forth his beliefs and his goals for Germany.

Question 7

Einsatzgruppen

Answer 7

SS killing units that sought out and slaughtered Jews in the Soviet Union.

Question 8

Reinhard Heydrich

Answer 8

German General of the SS Security Force who created the special strike forces to carry out Nazi plans to round up the Jews, steal their valuables, and execute them.

Question 8

Heinrich Himmler

Answer 8

German Nazi who was chief of the SS and the Gestapo and who oversaw the genocide of six million Jews.

Question 9

Kristallnacht

Answer 9

(Night of the Broken Glass) November 9, 1938, when mobs throughout Germany destroyed Jewish property and terrorized Jews.

Question 10

Joseph Goebbels

Answer 10

Chief minister of the Nazi propaganda, and organizer of Kristallnacht.

Question 11

Adolf Hitler

Answer 11

Austrian born Dictator of Germany, implement Fascism and caused WWII and Holocoust.

Question 12

Nuremberg Trials

Answer 12

A series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity

Question 13

Genocide

Answer 13

Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group

Question 14

Final Solution

Answer 14

Hitler’s program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people

Question 15

Ghetto

Answer 15

Separate section of a city where members of a minority group are forced to live; Jews forced to live in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.

Question 16

Holocaust

Answer 16

The Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler