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toc =Alex P. //Night// Assignments=

Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Elie Wiesel’s Reasons for Writing //Night//

 Elie is a survivor of the Holocaust. Elie wrote the novel //Night// because he wanted the people to know the truth about what went on during the Holocaust. Elie wanted to leave a legacy of words, of memories, to help prevent history from repeating itself. Elie witnessed the killing of his father as a child during the Holocaust. During Elie’s lifetime he has seen babies get thrown into trenches. He wrote this novel so he would not get mad at what he went experienced. He also wrote this book to keep the record of this event because many want to deny that it happened. Elie wrote this book so that people could hear from the one who experienced this harsh and brutal event.

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 the Minister of Propaganda and National Enlightenment.

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 * 1) Set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce in 1933
 * 2) Organized book burning Episodes
 * 3) Organized the sale of cheap radios called “People’s Recievers” ||
 * **Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/ **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Wannsee Conference ** || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">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?

[] || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kristallnacht was the staged pogroms that were against the Jewish Community, it is also known as the Night of the Broken Glass this is <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">a reference to the untold numbers of broken windows of synagogues, Jewish-owned stores, community centers, and homes plundered and destroyed during the pogroms. This happened on November 9-10, 1938.

15 high ranking Nazi Party and German government officials attended the conference to discuss the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.”

The Final Solution was to eliminate all the Jews. ||
 * **<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” || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">They also targeted the Roma (Gypsies), people with disabilities, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Afro-Germans, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Homosexuals.

Roma (Gypsies): arbitrary internment, forced labor, and mass murder. Disabilities: Euthanasia program was a murder program which killed mentally and physically disabled patients living in institutional settings. Poles: murdered thousands and the men were required to perform forced labor. Soviet prisoners: murdered || []
 * **<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="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The labor camps were where many prisoners died from exhaustion, starvation, and exposure. Extermination camps were designed for efficient mass murder.

The conditions were brutal and harsh many Jews caught diseases while in the camps. The different types of exterminations performed were gas chambers and weaponry killing. || []
 * **<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="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Soviets liberated these camps. Near the end of the war Hitler committed suicide. There were 24 defendants. They represented a cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Following orders” ||

=Assignment 3: Images of Night=

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