minorities

Question 1

What happened to Gypsies and Slavs?

Answer 1

Sent to concentration camps

Question 2

What happened to people with mental or physical disabilities?

Answer 2

Murdered or sterilised

Question 3

What happened to people of mixed race?

Answer 3

Sterilised against their will

Question 4

What happened to homosexual people?

Answer 4

Sent to concentration camps

Question 5

When were the Nuremburg Laws?

Answer 5

Happened in 1935

Question 6

What were the Nuremburg Laws?

Answer 6

Jews were not allowed to be German citizens, banned marriage and sexual relationships between Jews and non-Jews

Question 7

What were Jews forced to do after the Nuremburg Laws?

Answer 7

Sell their businesses, and were banned from all employment

Question 8

What happened to Jews in 1938?

Answer 8

Jewish children were banned from attending German schools, Jews were no longer allowed in public places such as theatres

Question 9

When was Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass)?

Answer 9

1938

Question 10

How did the Night of the Broken Glass begin?

Answer 10

In Paris, a German diplomat was murdered by a Jew

Question 11

What happened in the Night of the Broken Glass?

Answer 11

Jewish shops were smashed, synogogues were burnt down, thousands of Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps