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toc =Ta'Neal C. //Night// Assignments=

Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
//Night// Reasons There are many reasons that Elie Wiesel wrote the book //Night//. One reason was to understand the madness of evil and death so that he himself won’t go mad. Another reason was to leave behind a reference so that history will not repeat itself. He also wanted to preserve his experience. This way, people will know what happened during the Holocaust. A final reason for the writing was to discover the demented nature of human. Wiesel wanted to understand why the Holocaust happened.

Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web Search Background Information for the Holocaust Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people. []
 * Topics to Know || Questions || Answers ||
 * **Nazi Propaganda** || Who is Joseph Goebbels?

List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.

[] || * For literature, art, movies, ect., you had to be a member f the Reich Chamber []
 * Works were censored
 * Disobedience was followed by severe punishment
 * Books that weren’t tolerated by the Nazi were burnt in public
 * Films had to demonstrate certain issues like the Jews, the greatness of Hitler, ect.
 * Sold small radios so that Hitler’s speeches could be heard by everyone ||
 * **Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/**
 * Wannsee Conference** || What is Kristallnacht and what does the word mean? When did it happen?

Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?

What was the Final Solution?

[] || * Kristallnacht means “Night of the Broken Glass” and was done November 1938
 * Attending was SS General Reinhard Heydrich, SS Major General Heinrich Müller, SS Lieutenant Colonel [|Adolf Eichmann], as well as others from the SS and agencies of the states
 * The Final Solution was the code name for the annihilation of the European Jews ||
 * **The Victims** || Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?

Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.

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CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups” || * Gypsies
 * People with disabilities
 * Polish victims
 * Soviet prisoners of war
 * Afro-Germans
 * Homosexuals
 * Jehovah witnesses
 * Persecution, imprisonment, and annihilation was the fate for these groups ||
 * **The Ghettos** || Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.

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What was life like in the ghettos? [] || * The three types of ghetto: closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos []
 * Closed ghettos were shut off by walls or barbed wire fence. The were used to compel Jews
 * Open ghettos didn’t have walls or fences, but they did have leaving and entering restrictions. These were used in Poland and the German occupied Soviet Union.
 * Destruction ghettos were tightly sealed off for two to six weeks before Germans and their collaborators deported or killed the Jewish population there.
 * Life in the ghettos was miserable. Disease infested them. The people were given little food or water. Men were forced to do labor while others awaited death. ||
 * **The Camps** || There were two kinds of camps: labor camps and death/extermination camps. What is the difference between the two?

What were the conditions?

What different types of extermination were performed?

[] || * At labor camps, people were forced to work long hours without pay. In death camps, people were separated and killed right away. []
 * They were put in cramped living spaces were diseases could easily spread. Thousands died from exhaustion and starvation. German doctors performed sick experiments on prisoners.
 * Prisoners were gathered and were openly shot at. Others were put in gas chambers and killed by poisonous gases. Some were cremated as well. ||
 * **The Liberation & The Nuremberg Trials** || Who liberated the camps?

What did Hitler do near the end of the war?

How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent? []

What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense? [] || * The Allied troops who encountered the camps liberated prisoners and the camps.
 * Hitler committed suicide.
 * 24 defendants were charged. They represented the higher positions that committed unspeakable crimes.
 * “Following orders” wasn’t a legitimate defense for criminal acts. ||

=Assignment 3: Images of Night=


 * Chimney Smoke**


 * Chimney smoke**
 * Black and foggy**
 * Floating, choking, and clouding**
 * Like the shadow of an endless night and as eerie as the devil’s laugh**
 * A typhoon of lost, twisted souls that block the sun**
 * Creeping**
 * Among the clouds of the sky**