Lualdi 26.1-5 Summaries

Question 1

Summarize Nazi Propaganda Pamphlet by Joseph Goebbels.

Answer 1

1) Key to Hitlers success was Propaganda
2) Masses Were Managed and Easily Controlled by the government
3) Losts of Fascism, Nationalism, and Anti-Semitism
4) Helped propel Hitler to national leadership
5) To be a good neighbor, one must hate Jews.

Question 2

Summarize Eyewitness Accounts of the Bombing of Guernica.

Answer 2

1) Spain in the Civil War
2) Fascists Wanted to Help Franco (Ruler of Spain)
3) German and Italian Planes Bombed Out Opposition in Guernica
4) Lasted for 3 Hours, Town Was in Ruins, Targeted Civilians.

Question 3

Summarize Speech on the Munich Crisis by Neville Chamberlain.

Answer 3

1) Europeans want peace and are willing to settle for anything.
2) Doesn’t Trust Hitler
3) Hitler annexed Czech and Italy, France, Germany and England met to discuss actions
4) Agreed to let it slide and pursue a policy of appeasement
5) Everyone thought it was the peace treaty of the century.

Question 4

Summarize Memories of the Holocaust by Sam Bankhalter.

Answer 4

1) Lived in a Ghetto, Then a Concentration Camp.
2) Always Anti-Semitism in Poland
3) Killed Upon Arrival or Endured a Different Kind of Death - Starvation, Abuse, and Overwork.
4) Did without question under threat of death
5) Talked about the trains and showers
6) Lice was rampant
7) Bodies were boiled for soap
8) People were marched into the woods and shot
9) Freed by the Russians at Auschwitz.

Question 5

Summarize the Hiroshima Diary by Michihiko Hachiya.

Answer 5

1) People were going crazy over a secret new bomb.
2) Discusses His Time as a Patient after the blast.
3) Lots of destruction and suffering
4) People burned away with no faces.