The holocaust

Question 1

What did hitler win for bravery

Answer 1

The Iron cross for bravery

Question 2

NAZI means

Answer 2

Nationalist 
Socialist 
German
Workers 
Party

Question 3

putsch of a coup d’etat

Answer 3

an attempt to over throw the government

Question 4

hitler wrote mein kampf in prison what did it stand for

Answer 4

My struggle

Question 5

The SA

Answer 5

a private army of common criminals and bouncers under the leadership of Ernst Röhm

Question 6

The SS

Answer 6

a private guard who was as ruthless as the SA and even murdered people they wore black uniforms and were under the rule of heinrich himmler

Question 7

The gestapo

Answer 7

the secret polices who worked with the SS and were greatly feared

Question 8

The Reichstag fire

Answer 8

shortly after hitler came to power parliament burnt down

Question 9

The enabling Act

Answer 9

allowed hitler to become a dictator, parliament voted themselves

Question 10

The night of long knives

Answer 10

30th June 1934
anyone opposed to hitler was murdered
Ernst Röhm died

Question 11

The wannsee conference

Answer 11

• 20 January 1942
• Held just outside of Berlin
• Here was the official action taken to exterminate 11 million jews
• Hitler did not speak openly about actual genocide - preparation to build the gas chambers started almost immediately afterwards
• this was the start of the final solution

Question 12

Adolph Eichmann

Answer 12

was given the task of drawing up the details of the death camps (6 main camps were established