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toc =Cole M. //Night// Assignments=

Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Elie Wiesel had many reasons for writing //Night//. One was that he wanted to write an autobiography over his life when he was 15 years old. He also wanted people to know what happened so that it could never happen again. He was very upset when he was creating the abridged version because he didn’t want to leave anything out of the original version. Elie Wiesel’s autobiography is very depressing because it is a true story about the holocaust.

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. [] || Who is Joseph Goebbels?
 * Topics to Know || Questions || Answers ||
 * ** Nazi Propaganda **

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.

1. Nazi’s controlled the radio and made sure that only positive Nazi information was broadcasted. 2. They also controlled film and made many propaganda films that were focused on Jews, the greatness of Hitler, and the way of life for German civilians. 3. Hitler also wanted everyone to hear him speak so he sold radios cheap and also put loud speakers in the streets. || []
 * ** 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 Broken Glass” in which German civilian’s burred Jewish shops and synagogues. They even killed 91 Jews. High ranking Nazi officials and German officials met on January 20, 1942. They discussed genocide of the Jews. The final solution was to annihilate 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, poles, soviet prisoners, afro-Germans, homosexuals, Jehovah witness. All of these groups were part of the holocaust. ||
 * ** The Ghettos ** || Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.

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What was life like in the ghettos? [] || Warsaw Ghetto, Lodz, and Minsk. Life in the ghettos was really hard and The Nazi's worked the prisoners to death while starving 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?

[] || Labor camps were camps that the Germans worked the Jews to death and the death camps were camps that just killed the Jews.

The conditions were extremely horrible.

The Germans exterminated most Jews with gas. || []
 * ** 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 allies liberated all of the labor camps and the death camps.

Hitler killed himself in a bunker in Berlin.

24 defendants were charged at the numberg trial.

They claimed that “following orders” was not a legitimate defense. ||

=Assignment 3: Images of __Night__=

**Nazi’s**

Nazi’sEvil, ruthless Shouting, killing, laughing Like the devil himself and as orderly as a V of birds A living devil coming to earth Killing To exterminate all Jews