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Discuss the following questions with your neighbor: What do you do know about the Holocaust? Do you think something like that can happen again?. Anticipatory Set. The Holocaust. In groups of 3-4 use book/notes to answer the following questions in complete sentences:
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Discuss the following questions with your neighbor: What do you do know about the Holocaust? Do you think something like that can happen again? Anticipatory Set
The Holocaust • In groups of 3-4 use book/notes to answer the following questions in complete sentences: • Who were the victims of the Holocaust? • Who were members of the “master race”? • What were the Nuremberg Laws? • What happened on the night of Nov 9, 1938? • What was Hitler’s “final solution”? • Where did German Jews Try to migrate ro find safety from Nazi terror? • Where were Jews forced to live in German-controlled cities? • Where were the concentration camps? • Why did Hitler believe that Jews and other “subhumans” had to be exterminated? • Why did the Germans build extermination camps? • When did the final stage of the Final Solution begin? • How did non-Jewish people try to save Jews from the horrors of Nazism? • How many Jews died in the Holocaust?
The Holocaust • Who were the victims of the Holocaust? Non-Aryan peoples, mainly Jews • Who were members of the “master race”? Aryans • What were the Nuremberg Laws? German laws depriving Jews of rights to citizenship and jobs • What happened on the night of Nov 9, 1938? On Kristallnacht, Nazis launched a violent attack on Jewish communities all over GER • What was Hitler’s “final solution”? Systematic killing of entire groups of people, particularly Jews • Where did German Jews Try to migrate ro find safety from Nazi terror? France, Britain, US, and other countries • Where were Jews forced to live in German-controlled cities? In ghettos: segregated Jewish areas
The Holocaust • Where were the concentration camps? Mainly in Germany & Poland • Why did Hitler believe that Jews and other “subhumans” had to be exterminated? To protect the purity of the Aryan race • Why did the Germans build extermination camps? To carry out mass murders in huge gas chambers • When did the final stage of the Final Solution begin? Early 1942 • How did non-Jewish people try to save Jews from the horrors of Nazism? By hiding Jews in their homes or helping them escape to neutral countries • How many Jews died in the Holocaust? Approximately 6,000,000