Quiz #3

Question 1

The Significance of 1942-1943

Answer 1

The years when German power reached it’s height and then began to wane. Peak years of killing. The Jews seemed to be doomed.

Question 2

Wannsee Conference

Answer 2

January 20th, 1942
Produced the official report now called the Wannsee protocol. The SS, the foreign office, Adolf Eichmann, the security police, etc. were involved. No one was opposed or objected to the policy and practice of annihilation

Question 3

Final Solution

Answer 3

Many accounts and films claim that the final solution was the plan to murder all jews but by January of 1942, the plan was underway

Question 4

Mischlinge

Answer 4

Question of them
Germans of mixed Jewish and non-Jewish parentage

Question 5

Vilna and Abba Kovner’s manifesto

Answer 5

• Germans and Lithuanians working together had killed tens of thousands of Jews by December of 1941. Abba Kovner was a leading member of the Zionist-Socialist youth movement. Claimed that the Jews of Vilna were being annihilating and the Jews of Lithuania were the first to be in line

Question 6

New Order

Answer 6

the Nazi’s and hitler planned to win the war
not only would defeat the nemy military but it would create a new order

Question 7

General Plan for the East

Answer 7

german planters developed in detail the implications of their notion of LEben sraum-living space, in an initiative called the General plan for the east. was a warrant for what is now called ethnic cleansing

Question 8

euphemisms

Answer 8

German plan east was so full of them like much of Nazi writings. they talked about reducing or removing certain populations. nevertheless the intentions were obvious

Question 9

Germanization

Answer 9

the German plan for the east envisioned Germanization of a vast territory that stretched eastward from the old German Reich to the Ural mountains. someday, according to plan, hundreds of millions of people would live there; aryan germans and their slaves

Question 10

labor camps

Answer 10

inmates were not gassed, but they were beated starved and used for experiments
mass detention camps
non-jewish men and women from conquered nations
used them to work in military, factories, mines, and quarries

Question 11

Dora-Mittelbau and V-2 rockets

Answer 11

a camp in north-central germany not far from the city of Gottinghen. in its extensive underground facility slave laborers built v-2 rockets

Question 12

arbeit macht frei

Answer 12

the sign over the gate of Auschwitz read work liberates

Question 13

female ss units

Answer 13

there were female ss units, usually assigned to communication duties and housekeeping for ss men at the front. chosen on the basis of their supposedly viable blood were expected to help german ss men resist the temptations of sexual liasions with non-aryans

Question 14

irma grese and ilse koch

Answer 14

most infamous women were cruel
wild rumors circulated about her sexual deviancy and her fondness of lampshades and household decorations made of human flesh

Question 15

kapos

Answer 15

realized that he or should could be replaced at a moments notice
hierarchhies of power within the camps
had access to power and privilege
recruited them from gree and red traingles

Question 16

colored badges

Answer 16

criminals wore green, communists -red, roma and asocials were marked with a black badge, jehovah’s witnesses were purple, a pink triangle represented homosexual men, and yellow meant jew

Question 17

homosexuals

Answer 17

the men with the pink triangle
harassed and persecuted gay men and men suspected of homosexuality
a threat to racial health bc they did not produce children
they were confused if it was biological or not

Question 18

warrant

Answer 18

justification or authority

Question 19

recalcitrant

Answer 19

having an uncoopwerative atitutde towards authority or discipline

Question 20

mettle

Answer 20

tenacity, spirit, moral fiber