Key Words

Question 1

Aktion T4

Answer 1

Nazi programme dealing with the euthanasia or murder of disabled children and adults

Question 2

Einsatzgruppen

Answer 2

SS death squads which followed the German army as they conquered eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, carrying out mass killings of ideological and racial enemies of the Nazis

Question 3

Ersatz

Answer 3

Substitute or replacement goods e.g. rubber

Question 4

Fuhrerprinzip

Answer 4

Principle that within the Nazi party, Hitler possessed all power and authority

Question 5

Kristallnacht

Answer 5

9th-10th November 1938, Nazi attacks on Jewish property and businesses

Question 6

Nazi-Soviet Pact

Answer 6

Agreement in 1939 between Nazi Germany and the USSR in which the USSR agreed not to attack Nazi Germany if it were to attack Poland. They agreed to divide Poland between them

Question 7

Nuremburg Laws

Answer 7

Nazis’ racist 1935 laws that removed German citizenship from jews, banned inter-marriage between Jews and other Germans and defined who was to be considered Jews

Question 8

Untermensch

Answer 8

People the Nazis considered socially inferior

Question 9

Volksgemeinschaft

Answer 9

National or people’s community the Nazis aimed to create