Explore Anti-Jewish Legislation in Prewar Germany and answer the questions to the right.
What were the Nuremberg Laws? Provide 3 examples.
How did the Nazis seek to "Aryanize" Germany?
Provide three examples of the Nazi persecution of Jews.
What caused Kristallnacht?
What destruction took place during Kristallnacht?
Why is Kristallnacht significant?
What were the Nazi intentions in closing the Jews into the Ghettoes?
Why do you think the Nazis established the ghettoes near railway transports?
Why were most ghettoes in Eastern Europe?
How might the establishment of the Judenrate in the Ghetto have give n the Jews a false sense of security?
"ghetto life does not flow-rather it is stagnant or frozen. Around us-are walls! We have no space, we have no freedom of movement and action." What is the main feeling that emerges from hearing this passage?
Identify three dilemmas the Jews faced daily in the ghettoes.
Give an example of one way that Jews attempted to keep their sanity in the ghetto.
Where were the death camps most likely to be located?
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What was the purpose of concentration camps?
What factor often determined camp locations?
What led to the expansion of camps?
When did the systemic killing of the Jews begin?
Why did the Nazis begin using death cmamps?
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What was the T-4 program?
What was Operation Reinhard and how did it relate to the Final Solution?
How did the Nazis attempt to hide the evidence of the killing centers?
List three facts about Auschwitz.
Below, you will find an excerpt from a fantastic book written by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel from his book, Night
Why would most consider this treatment unnecessarily cruel?
List the victims of the Nazis.
Consider what you have learned. I am going to ask you the age old question and I would like you to respond - how could something like this, on this scale, have happened?