Nazi Occupation

Question 1

Why would someone not resist the Nazis?

Answer 1

• Not everyone would’ve been aware of the scale of their crimes and penalties were extremely harsh.
  -Nazi’s had taken away hope of rescue and safety
• People had to make difficult choices such as looking after their families or surviving the war in general.

Question 2

What is an act of resistance?

Answer 2

• Acts that attempted to hinder the Nazi’s war effort or to help Jewish people or the Nazis’ enemies using violent or non-violent methods.

Question 3

What is an act of collaboration?

Answer 3

• Actions that helped Nazis’

Question 4

What is an act of accommodation?

Answer 4

• actions that don’t help Nazis but don’t hinder them (BYSTANDER)

Question 5

Examples of Acts of Resistance?

Answer 5

• People hiding Jews
  -1943 Warsaw ghetto launched an armed revolt against Nazi’s
  -French and Polish movements supplied info to countries fighting Germany and disrupted German communications by destroying train lines and cutting telephone wire.
  -

Question 6

Examples of Acts of Collaboration?

Answer 6

• Vichy Government in southern France which voluntarily persecuted Jews, deporting them to Nazi Death Camps.
  -Doing German soldiers’ laundry, denouncing fellow citizens and taking part in mass killings

Question 7

What happened to people when they arrived at Death Camps?

Answer 7

• Belongings would be confiscated.
  -New arrivals would be sent to gas chambers disguised as shower blocks and their bodies would be cremated.
  -Forced labour (hair cut, tattoed with a number and issued with striped uniform)
  -Victims of medical experiments

Question 8

What was Nazi rule like in Eastern Europe? (Poland)

Answer 8

• Due to land being taken away from Germany due to treaty of Versailles, the Nazi’s had always wanted the polish territory back
• Nazi’s though of poles as sub-human
• 2 million non Jewish poles forced into slave labour
  -3 million polish Jews exterminated

Question 9

What was Nazi rule like in Western Europe? (Netherlands - the good)

Answer 9

• Initially due to Dutch being seen as the same ethnic stock as Germans, they tried to win them over.
  -Dutch education system remained untouched by the Nazis
  -Civil servants (Mayors and councilmen) were allowed to keep working.
  -June 29th 1940 dutch wore white carnations as a symbol of the Royal family who were living in exile and Nazi’s did nothing.

Question 10

What was Nazi rule like in Western Europe (Netherlands- the bad)

Answer 10

• Mainly wanted resources such as raw materials, agricultural produce and industrial goods which led to extreme shortages
  -1944 to 45 20000 Dutch died due starvation.
  -Jews were being persecuted.
  -May 1943 Dutch men between 18-35 were to become forced labourers and by 1945 men between 18-60 ended up working in Germany.
  -

Question 11

What are ghettos?

Answer 11

• small areas of towns and cities where Jewish people could be gathered together away.

Question 12

Conditions in Ghettos

Answer 12

• Upon entering possessions would be confiscated.
  -People died from disease and starvation.
  Jews faced death for any resistance
  -

Question 13

What was the final solution?

Answer 13

• Plan to kill Europe Jewish population

Question 14

What was the role of the Einsatzgruppen?

Answer 14

• units of SS soldiers that murdered people in east Europe in huge numbers
  -Victims were Jews, disabled and enemies of Germany
  -Trucks converted into mobile gas chambers by having exhaust pipes piped into the back where victims were held.
  -