1. What was the scope of the Holocaust? In other words, how many Jews were murdered? Who did the murders? How many years did the murderous phase of the Holocaust last?
2. How did modern Germans view Jews in a fundamentally different manner from earlier forms of antisemitism that we have studied so far?
3. Why was Nazi state-sponsored antisemitism so much more dangerous to German Jews than earlier forms of antisemitism?
4. How did the Nazi Party rise to power?
5. In what country was Hitler born and educated?
6. What did the German Workers' Party (Nazi Party) advocate about the Jews immediately after World War I?
7. What was the Beer Hall Putsch?
8. When Hitler came out of prison, what tactics did he and the Nazis use to get power?
9. Once in power, what were Hitler's main goals? And, how did he accomplish them?
10. How did Hitler view the Jews once in power?
11. How many Jews lived in Germany in the 1930s and what percentage of the German population were they?
12. What were the two primary levels on which Nazi antisemitic policy operated?
13. What were some of the antisemitic measures enacted by the German government under Hitler before September 1935?
14. Dachau was the first concentration camps in Germany. What purpose did it serve between 1933 and 1935?
15. Who was the commandant and who assisted him in running the camp?
16. How did Dachau become a prototype of other camps elsewhere in Germany?
17. What did the first wave of antisemitic laws involve?
18. What was the special name given to the second wave of antisemitic laws and what did the do?
19. What di the third wave of antisemitic laws do?
20. Taken together, how did the three waves of antisemitic laws alter the economic, social, political and cultural standing of Jews in Germany?
21. Why and how did the Nazis persecute the Sinti and Roma?
22. Why and how did the Nazis persecute homosexuals?
23. Why and how did the Nazis persecute the disabled?
24. Why and how did the Nazis persecute Catholics?
25. Why and how did the Nazis persecute Jehovah's Witnesses?
26. Why do we considered the year 1938 to be "The Fateful Year"?
27. What new forms of violence were perpetrated against German Jews?
28. What did the conference fail to do for persecuted European Jews?
29. What conclusions can you draw about the 32 countries represented at the conference?
30. Despite the conference's many failures what was its one big accomplishment?