1. How did Hitler and the Nazi view the Jews?
2. What was Nazi racial policy based on?
3. What became the primary goal of the German state under Nazism?
4. How was the "Law to Prevent Hereditarily Diseased Offspring" an example of euthanasia?
5. How did the Nuremberg Laws define a Jew and a German? What other legal definitions were formalized with the supplemental decree of the Nuremberg Law?
6. What did the German government do during the 1936 Olympic Games with regard to its antisemitic campaign?
7. What other measures did the German government tame in 1936 and 1938?
8. How was the German government able to police its policies regarding marriage and procreation?
9. Why does the US Holocaust Memorial Museum consider Kristallnacht a pogrom?
10. What happened in 1938 to Polish Jewish refugees in Germany? What part did the Polish town of Zbaszyn play in linking the German treatment of Polish Jews in Germany and Kristallnacht?
11. Which Nazi personality took the lead in planning Kristallnacht? Who was he? And, what reason did he give for Kristallnacht?
12. What state-sponsored antisemitic policies were enacted in the aftermath of Kristallnacht?
13. Who was forced to pay for the damages done during Kristallnacht?
14. What was the German policy of Aryanization and consequences did it have for German Jews?
15. Why do historians considered the year 1938 to be a "fateful year"?
16. What new forms of violence were perpetrated against German Jews from 1938 onward?
17. Why do historians consider the Evian Conference as evidence of widespread antisemitism in Europe and the Americas?
18. What did the conference fail to do for persecuted European Jews?
19. What conclusions can you draw about the 32 countries represented at the conference?
20. Despite the conference's many failures what was its one big accomplishment?
21. What happened to efforts in the US Congress to pass legislation allowing approximately 20,000 Jewish children to find refuge in the US?
22. How did Shanghai, China become a refuge for European Jews? What happened to the Jews of Shanghai during World War
II?
23. What did Britain did in 1939 regarding its immigration policy for the mandate of Palestine?
24. How does the story of the St. Louis illustrate American responsibility in the Holocaust?
25. How was the German government able to identify and keep track of Jews in Germany?
26. Dachau was the first concentration camps in Germany. What purpose did it serve between 1933 and 1935?
27. Who was the commandant and who assisted him in running the camp?
28. How did Dachau become a prototype of other camps elsewhere in Germany?
29. Yad Vashem divides the history of German concentration camps into three periods: 1933-36, 1936-1942 and 1942-44/45. Give a short description of what was distinctive about the camps in each period.
30. Why and how did the Nazis persecute the Sinti and Roma?
31. Why and how did the Nazis persecute homosexuals?
32. Why and how did the Nazis persecute the disabled?
33. Why and how did the Nazis persecute Catholics?
34. Why and how did the Nazis persecute Jehovah's Witnesses?
35. Yad Vashem gives a short description of Walther Funk. How was he implicated in the Holocaust as the German Economic Minister and president of the State Bank?