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toc =John C. //Night// Assignments=

Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
John Comer English 8P-7 January 28, 2010 Reasons for Wiesel’s Struggles Elie Wiesel had many purposes to write the historical novel //Night//. One of the major reasons is for history to never repeat itself in such a tragic way and to leave behind his words. He wrote it as to not go mad and to understand the nature of madness, which erupted in the past. It is simply to preserve record of the ordeal I witnessed as an adolescent. There are those who tell me I survived just to write about my past ordeals. I may have just been privileged because I didn’t know how I survived. Elie Wiesel had numerous purposes for his words of the past but we may never be positive about the true purpose of his intentions to write his historical novel //Night.//

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.

[] || Joseph Goebbels was Hitler’s minister of propaganda and one of the most influential people in Nazi Germany.

To ensure success Goebbels, the SS, and Gestapo would hunt down anybody who talked negatively about the Nazi party or posed a threat.

To ensure everybody thought in the correct manner, Goebbels set up the Reich Chamber of commerce in 1933 to produce any publicly visible articles you had to be a member.

To ensure the views of Nazi party were as positive as could be they policed the media. || || What is Kristallnacht and what does the word mean? When did it happen? []
 * **Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/**
 * Wannsee Conference**

Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?

What was the Final Solution?

[] || Kristallnacht- (November 1938) “The Night of the Broken Glass” is its common term. On that night Nazi soldiers encouraged rioters and this led to the destruction of 267 synagogues and the vandalism of 7,500 Jewish businesses and the deaths of 91 Jewish people.

Wannsee Conference & The Final Solution-15 high-ranking Nazi officers and German government officials attended the conference. The final solution was decided during this conference. The final decision is the extinction of the Jewish race about 11 million Jews would fall under this. || || Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
 * **The Victims**

Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.

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CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups” || The seven other groups that were attacked were the homosexuals, gypsies, people with disabilities, poles, soviet prisoners of war, afro Germans, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. The Nazi party created labor camps and death camps to eliminate these groups. || || Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.
 * **The Ghettos**

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What was life like in the ghettos? [] || TYPES OF GHETTOS: Life was very poor in the ghettos and lacked the neccessities. || []
 * CLOSED GHETTOS: Closed off by walls, or by fences with barbed wire. There were severe weather conditions, starvation, and unsanitary living conditions.
 * OPEN GHETTOS: Had no walls or fences, but there were restrictions on leaving and entering.
 * DESTRUCTION GHETTOS: Were tightly sealed off and lasted 2-6 weeks and the Germans would shoot the Jews in them.
 * **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?

[] || The difference between death camps and labor camps was death camps main focus was the extermination of the Jews but the main focus of the labor camps was to work the Jews to death. There was little or no food for the prisoners in most camps. There were several types of extermination techniques in the death camps. There were killing centers that were efficient for mass murder used either poison gas or just shot them. || || Who liberated the camps? []
 * **The Liberation & The Nuremberg Trials**

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 soviets were the first to encounter the camps and encountered thousands of Jews on forced marches into the interior of Germany.

Hitler killed himself near due to fear of torture and he told his solders to destroy the evidence of the concentration camps.

24 defendants were charged with war crimes.

“following orders” was not a legitimate defense for criminal acts. ||

=Assignment 3: Images of Night=

Night Dark and gloomy Growing, terrorizing, and shielding Like the darkest chocolate and as dark as a lamp post The endless black wave rolls until dawn Sweeping Across the world of life