Holocaust Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Introduction to the Holocaust-Questions and Answers Graded A+ What was The Holocaust? - ANSWER-A systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. .What German political party carried out The Holocaust? - ANSWER-The Nazis Why did the Nazis initiate The Holocaust? - ANSWER-They believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German r...

What groups of people were targeted by Nazis? Answer Jews, Gypsies, Communists, blacks, homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses, handicapped. Four kinds of camps located around Europe. Answer Concentration camps, Death camps, Murder camps, and Transit and assembly camps. What does the Nazi plan of extermination mean? Answer The Final Solution was Hitler's plan to kill every Jew in Europe. 3 reasons why people in Germany were willing to follow Adolf Hitler. Answer Fear-He got rid of those who op...

What was the Holocaust? Answer systematic (fixed plan) slaughter of Jews and other groups judged inferior by the Nazis (Adolf Hitler) Name at least 4 Nazi targets besides the Jews. Why were they targets? Answer Communists, Journalists, Christians, and Blacks. The Communists, Journalists, and Christians were targets because they were seen as a threat to the German government. Black people were targeted because the Nazi's and Adolf Hitler believed they weren't part of the "perfect German rac...

Name the roots/causes of the Holocaust Answer 1 Break down of Government 2 Indifferences of bystanders 3 Racism, Prejudice 4 Effects of Propaganda 5 Notions of Racial inferiority 6 Scapegoating 7 Nationalism 8 Hitler's Charisma Name 6 ways victims of the Holocaust were oppressed Answer 1 Took belongings/ property 2 Shaved heads 3 Used as Medical Experiments 4 Starved, deprived of sanitary conditions 5 Branded with numbers 6 Living conditions- unsanitary Name 6 forms of resist...