The Holocaust

Question 1

What was hitters book called

Answer 1

Mein Kampf. This is where he publishing his anti semitism

Question 2

What happened when the Great Depression came

Answer 2

The nazis got into power and introduced anti semitism

Question 3

Why did hitler dislike Jews

Answer 3

1. He believed they were to blame for germanys defeat in ww1
2. He believed Jewish business men were plotting to take over the world.
3. He believed they were an inferior race.

Question 4

How did Jews life change in 1934

Answer 4

Made to sit on separate seats on busses , trains and in parks.

Question 5

When and what was the Nuremberg law

Answer 5

A law introduced in 1935, it took away Jews German citizenship and forbade marriage between Jews and non Jews.

Question 6

When was the night of the broken glass and what happened?

Answer 6

November 1938.
Nearly 10,000 Jewish shop keepers had their shop windows smashed and been robbed. Jewish homes and synagogues were in flames. Thousands were arrested and dozens were killed.

Question 7

How many Jews were killed in the holocaust

Answer 7

Nazis murdered 6 million Jews.

Question 8

What year did the holocaust start and what year did it end?

Answer 8

1942-1945

Question 9

Changes to Jews lives during 1930s

Answer 9

Students expelled from school, sacked from jobs, banned from playing sport, banned from cinema, property was stolen.

Question 10

How did they travel to camps

Answer 10

In cattle trucks/wagons, they were cramped unhuman and unhygienic.

Question 11

What happened when you got to camp

Answer 11

Possessions taken away. Given striped pyjamas (as uniform) . Hair shaved. Split into men and women. Split into fit and unfit. Given a number instead of a name.

Question 12

What food was there at camp

Answer 12

Very limited and little. E.g. a bit of whale meat, some sort of vegetable soup.

Question 13

How could the guards and doctors treat them

Answer 13

SS guards could kill prisoners at any moment.
Doctors did experiments on prisoners with no anaesthetic

Question 14

What was the first concentration camp

Answer 14

Dachau

Question 15

When and where was the first concentration camp opened

Answer 15

March 1933, dachau Germany (north of Munich)

Question 16

List as many people as you can who were prisoners.

Answer 16

Jews, German communists, gypsies, socialists, political prisoners, gay people, disables people, prisoners of war, priests + pastors, criminals.

Question 17

Why do you think no one in Germany tried to help the Jews

Answer 17

They didn’t want people to think they were Jewish too through fear.

Question 18

Why might Germans have been hesitant to stop Nazis

Answer 18

Lack of Nazi education. Nazi propaganda messages on the radio. Fear of the gestapo. Ignorance of the camps existence.

Question 19

How could the German fear of the gestapo stop them from helping Jews

Answer 19

Germans would see what happened to Jews and knew if they tried to help them the same or worse would happen to them.

Question 20

Why would the Nazi propaganda messages stop them from helping Jews

Answer 20

The constant reminder not to help Jews would scare them into obeying the rules.

Question 21

How did the Germans Nazi education stop them from helping Jews

Answer 21

Some Germans didn’t have education on this topic and could be unaware of what happens in camps.

Question 22

Tell me someone who was righteous among their nation and helped Jews

Answer 22

Jeanne Damian- Catholic from Belgium. In 1942.
Set up kindergartens for Jews who couldn’t attend school anymore.