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Station #1: The Holocaust and the German Strategy and Final Solution planStation #2: Obstacles to Resistanceand What Motivated Rescuers?Station #3: The United States and the Holocaust and Jewish Emigration Station #4: Victims, Bystanders, and the EconomyStation #5: Types of Concentration Camps and The GhettosStation #6: The Nuremburg Laws and the Birth of the Nazi PartyStation #7: Poland and the Nuremberg Defendants Station #8: Invasion of FranceGroup Member Names:Directions: Use the PowerPoint slides for each station to find the information needed to answer the questions below. Work together as a group to answer the questions. Take turns recording the answers, by having a different group member write for each station. Station #1: Group Member Writing Answers: The Holocaust1. What does the Greek root word used in “Holocaust” mean?2. What camp killed 10,000 Jews per day?3. What were the mobile killing units called that were used to systematically kill 1.5 million people?4. Name 2 examples of propaganda used by the Nazis.1.2.5. How long had Jews lived in Germany?6. Infer: Was the Jewish population newly immigrated to the countries in Europe? German Strategy and the Final Solution 1. Who is the author of this cartoon?2. Identify 2 of the countries Hitler has already “conquered” according to the cartoon.1.2.3. Which country is Hitler attempting to conquer in this cartoon?4. How does the cartoonist illustrate this country? 5. Infer: What does it say about his chances of conquering it?6. The list on this page shows the number of (a)_________who were to be deported to their (b)_________.a.b.7. From which country did Hitler plan to deport the highest number of Jews?Station #2: Obstacles to ResistanceGroup Member Writing Answers: Make an inference. How could “family ties” keep a person from resisting?Why was it difficult for the non-Jewish populations to fight the deportations?Why would forging documents be considered “resistance”?4. What number of Jews were killed in Germany? 5. Which country had the highest percentage of their Jewish population killed?6. Which country had the highest number of Jews killed?What Motivated Rescuers?1. What was one way that people helped to rescue Jews?2. What were 2 places that a rescuer could hide Jews?1.2.3. Did rescuers think of themselves as heroes?4. Did all rescuers help only people they knew personally?5. Were any of the rescuers anti-Semitic (hating Jews)?6. What was one country that was neutral during the war? 7. What were 2 items that rescuers could forge for Jews?1.2.Station #3: The United States and the HolocaustGroup Member Writing Answers: 1. After Kristallnacht, 85% of Americans were still opposed to what?2. What percentage of Americans believed that Jews were different and should be restricted from certain places and/or activities?3. Who is the artist of the cartoon in this packet?4. The cartoon shows America under a “warm, warm cot” with “grim cold facts” blowing in the window. What is the cartoonist trying to say about America and the situation in Europe?5. What year was the cartoon published?6. The War Refugee Board did not meet until January 22, 1944, two years after the cartoon, and six years after the beginning of the war (A “refugee” is someone a country allows in to protect or save them from terror). What does this say about America’s involvement with war refugees? 7. What is the circled article about?8. How many stories of what was happening to the Jews in Europe made the front page of the New York Times?9. Infer: What does it say about American opinion that these stories were not considered highly important news?Jewish Emigration1. In what years did the U.S. allow the most immigrants to enter the country?2. In what years did the U.S. allow the least amount of immigrants to enter the country?3. How many Jews emigrated from Germany between 1939 and 1941?4. How many immigrants did the U.S. allow to enter the country between 1931 and 1950?Station #4: Victims, Bystanders, and the EconomyGroup Member Writing Answers: 1. What percentage of the people involved in World War II were bystanders?2. What is a “bystander”?3. Less than 10% of the people involved in World War II were what?4. Name 5 groups, other than Jews, who were targets or victims of the Holocaust.1.2.3.4.5.5. What was the first step in the Final Solution (the plan to eliminate all the Jews on earth)?6. What was the final goal?7. In what year did Germany see the highest percentage of unemployment?8. How many German people were unemployed in the year 1931?9. In January of 1923, how many German Marks would have equaled one U.S. Dollar?10. Infer: What does the exchange rate between German Marks and U.S. Dollars indicate about the German economy? Station #5: The GhettosGroup Member Writing Answers: 1. Where was the first ghetto established?2. How many ghettos were established in Poland?3. How many ghettos were established in Eastern Europe?4. In what ghetto did the most Jews reside?5. What was one purpose of the ghettos?6. How many Jewish cemeteries were in the Litzmannstadt ghetto? Types of Concentration Camps1. How many types of concentration camps were there?2. How many countries housed concentration camps?3. Which 2 concentration camps had only two survivors?1.2.4. Which concentration camp was in operation the longest amount of time?Station #6: Birth of the Nazi PartyGroup Member Writing Answers: 1. Who did the German people credit with their improved standard of living before World War II?2. What gave Hitler’s government dictatorial power? 3. How long was his government supposed to have this power?4. What was one talent Hitler learned he had while he was leading the Nazi party?5. What year did Hitler take control of the “German Worker’s Party?”6. What were the Nazi solutions to the German people’s hunger and poverty?a.b. 7. What did the Enabling Act do to the German constitution?The Nuremburg Laws1. What was 1 goal of the Anti-Jewish policy?2. What were the criteria for being considered a Jew?3. What status were Jews given as a result of the Reich Citizenship Law?4. What type of squad was the SS?5. List 3 things that Jews were no longer allowed to do after September 15, 1935.1.2.3.6. What is one way the goals of the Anti-Jewish policies were accomplished?Station #7: PolandGroup Member Writing Answers: 1. To what grade in school were Poles (Polish people) allowed to go?2. Infer: Why would the Nazis limit the education of the people? 3. What were the two options for Polish men?1.2.4. Which language was forbidden to be spoken in Poland?5. Name 3 things that were closed or destroyed.1.2. 3. 6. Infer: Why would the Nazis destroy the locations written above? Nuremberg Defendants1. How many of the accused were sentenced to death?2. How many of the accused were eventually freed from prison?3. Which three men were “acquitted” (found not guilty) by the Court at Nuremberg?1.2.3.4. Infer: Based on the verdicts (final judgements of guilty or innocent) of the accused, do you think Holocaust survivors felt that justice was served? ***EXTRA CREDIT***Station #8: Invasion of FranceGroup Member Writing Answers: 1. What day did the Allied Forces have to evacuate to Dunkirk?2. The Ardennes Forest is between what 2 countries?1.2.3. How many zones was France divided into?4. Which country did Hitler most want to humiliate?5. Name 2 cities in the German occupied area of France.1.2.6. When did Italy enter the war against France?7. What city was in the Italian occupation zone?8. What was the capital of the unoccupied zone in the south?9. What was the official capital of the occupied zone in the north?10. Assess: Compare the German military to that of France. ................
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