Holocaust

Question 0

Anti-Semitism

Answer 0

Prejudice against Jews

Question 1

Aryans

Answer 1

German master race

Question 2

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 2

Laws depriving Jews of citizenship, jobs, and property

Question 3

Einsatzgruppen

Answer 3

German death squads

Question 4

Kristallnacht

Answer 4

“Night of broken Glass”; attacks on Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues

Question 5

Wannersee Conference

Answer 5

Held to determine the fate of the Jewish population

Question 6

The Jewish Problem

Answer 6

Hitler’s dilemma of what to do with the Jewish population in Germany and Europe

Question 7

Final Solution

Answer 7

Hitler’s plan to eliminate Jewish race

Question 8

Genocide

Answer 8

Eliminating an entire race of people

Question 9

“Sub-humans”

Answer 9

Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, E. Europeans, mentally/physically disabled

Question 10

Eugenics or Racial Hygiene

Answer 10

Efforts by Nazis to cleanse or purify the Aryan race

Question 11

Natural Selection

Answer 11

Survival of the fittest

Question 12

Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka, Bergen Belsen, Dachau

Answer 12

Nazi death camps

Question 13

Zyklon B

Answer 13

Poison gas used in death camps

Question 14

Number of Jews killed?

Answer 14

6 million

Question 15

Tactics used to implement final solution,

Answer 15

Slave labor and ghetto system

Question 16

When did final stage begin?

Answer 16

1942

Question 17

Shoah

Answer 17

Mass destruction or calamity

Question 18

Pogram

Answer 18

Government sponsored tax in Jews

Question 19

Targets of Einsatzgruppen?

Answer 19

Jews, Eastern Europeans, Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, and disabled

Question 20

How did Einsatzgruppen lead to the final solution?

Answer 20

The leader, Heinrich Himmler, believed the shootings were demoralizing the soldiers

Question 21

What happened at Wannersee on January 20, 1942?

Answer 21

All Jews ordered to be exterminated

Question 22

3 countries with highest number of Jew deaths?

Answer 22

Hungary, Ukraine, Poland

Question 23

Percentage of top three countries with Jews killed?

Answer 23

Poland: 90%, Germany: 90%, Czech.: 80%

Question 24

Three German death camps?

Answer 24

(MC-BATS) Auschwitz, Belzac, Sobibor, Treblinka

Question 25

How did death camps generate money?

Answer 25

Shaved heads and used for mattresses, gold teeth extracted and sold or sent to secret bank accounts in Switzerland, sold valuables