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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.

[] || He was the head of propaganda

to ensure nobody in Germany could read or see anything that was hostile or damaging to the Nazi Party. to ensure that the views of the Nazis were put across in the most persuasive manner possible. To ensure success, || []
 * **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?

[] || The night of broken glass November high-ranking Nazi Party and German government was the code name for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of the European Jews officials 9–10, 1938 <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">the final solution was decided ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The Victims ** || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">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” ||

“enemy,” the Nazi ideological concept of race targeted other groups for persecution, imprisonment, and annihilation, including [|Roma (Gypsies)], [|people with disabilities] , [|Poles] , [|Soviet prisoners of war] , and [|Afro-Germans]. The Nazis also identified political dissidents, [|Jehovah’s Witnesses], [|homosexuals] , there fate is that the would be killed ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The Ghettos ** || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.

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What was life like in the ghettos? [] ||  || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">There were three [|types] of ghettos: closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos. ||  ||

A gettos purpose was almost like a holding facilitiy <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">The largest ghetto in Poland was the [|Warsaw ghetto] [|Lodz], [|Krakow] , [|Bialystok] , [|Lvov] , [|Lublin] , [|Vilna] , [|Kovno] , Czestochowa, and [|Minsk]. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;"> Life in the ghettos was pretty much like living in the concentration camps []
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The Camps ** || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">There were two kinds of camps: labor camps and death/extermination camps. What is the difference between the two?
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The Camps ** || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">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?

[] || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">The extermination camps were designed for efficient mass murder the Nazis opened [|forced-labor] camps where thousands of prisoners died from exhaustion, starvation, and exposure. In the killing centers either by asphyxiation with [|poison gas] or by shooting. || []
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The Liberation & The Nuremberg Trials ** || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">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? [] || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Soviet forces 24 defendants were selected to represent a cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military l <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">The IMT declared to the world that “following orders” was not a legitimate defense for criminal acts. The trials also rejected claims that heads of state should be exempt from prosecution. || Images of Night

Gas chambers

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