Show:
The start of the Holocaust
Jewish Ghettos
Concentration Camps
Adolf Hitler
Grab Bag
100
What was Hitlers position in German government when he rose to power as supreme ruler?
Chancellor of Germany.
100
What is a Jewish Ghetto?
A section of a town that Jews were forced to live in that gated off and guarded.
100
Why were people so willing to go to the concentration camps?
People were taken from the Ghettos and told they were going to a better place.
100
Hitler was a soldier in what war?
World War I.
100
What was the reason for Germanys economic depression?
The loss of World War I.
200
In Hitlers book "Mein Kampf" what did Hitler say he would do once he became ruler of Germany?
He would rid Germany of all of the Jews.
200
What were some of the difficulties of living in a Ghetto?
There was little food, water, or medicine available and multiple families had to share a single room to live in.
200
What happened to those who were not killed?
Jews were forced to do manual labor such as pull wagons a job went for horses.
200
How did Hitler start World War II?
He invaded Poland because he wanted to expand Germany.
200
How many Jews died in the Holocaust?
Around six million people were killed.
300
As soon as Hitler became Chancellor of Germany what did he do?
He created laws against Jews that took away all rights they had as German citizens.
300
What was the purpose of having Jews living in ghettos?
Ghettos isolated Jews by separating Jewish communities from the non-Jewish population and allowed the Nazis to keep the Jews in a state of fear.
300
What was the most common way Jews died during the Holocaust?
People would be led into the chambers in large groups only to be killed with poison gas.
300
What was Hitlers main goal?
Hitler wanted to obtain world domination and create the perfect race, by exterminating all races under him.
300
Why were Jews discriminated against?
They didn't look like anything like what the perfect German was supposed to look like, instead of blond hair they had brown hair and instead of blue eyes they had brown hair, they were a minority in Germany and easy to target.
400
What was the Night of Broken Glass?
It was the night when many Jewish homes and businesses were burnt down or vandalized
400
Germans forced Jews to badges with the Star of David on them, why do you think this is?
So Jews could quickly be identified as what the Germans thought them to be, unhuman.
400
In concentration camps Jews were forced to remove clothing, shoes, glasses and gold teeth. Why do you think this is?
This was because during the Holocaust Germany was still struggling economically and these were sent back to Germany to provide for the Germans.
400
Where did Hitler and his group of followers start?
The German Workers Party.
400
What was the Judenrat?
The Judenrat was the council of Jews, appointed by the Nazis in each Jewish community or ghetto.
500
What was Hitlers reason for hating the Jews?
Hitler blamed them for Germany losing World War I, and the aftermath of the war which put the country in an economic depression.
500
What are three reasons why living in ghettos caused thousands of Jews to die?
Starvation, disease and freezing to death.
500
What was the biggest Concentration Camp?
Auschwitz, located in Poland, killed over one million people after the Holocaust ended in 1945.
500
Why was after the first World War a good time for Hitler to rise to power in Germany?
After the loss of the war Germany was economically depressed and needed someone to lift them back to their feet and by eliminating Jews people believed the country would become stronger.
500
What kind of gas was used by the Nazis in concentration camps?
Hydrocyanic gas.