9.3.5: the Holocaust - Q facts -

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9.3.5: the Holocaust

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Q

Read: "Producing children for Hitler"
1a. How can you tell that Hitler planned on fighting a long war?

1b. Explain what effect the promotion of large families had on Hitler’s ideal of creating Lebensraum for the German people.

1c. If more than 4,7 million German women had received a Mother's Cross by 1941. How many children were at least born during Hitler's reign between 1933 and 1941?

Read "Lebensborn"
2. Explain why children of the Lebensborn Programme who were born with physical or mental conditions could easily be killed in secret clinics.

3. The text reads: "Against all moral values of that time, Himmler publicly stated that young unmarried women classified as racially pure and healthy, should start having children as well. "

What part was especially against all moral values of that time?

1. young women having children
2. unmarried women having children
3. racially pure women having children
4. healthy women having children

4. What happened with many racially pure children outside Germany?

Read "Euthanasia Programs"

5. Would you consider the term "euthanasia" in this context a euphemism?
Explain your answer?
(yes, you may need to look up all those difficult words...)

Read "Isolation of Jews"

6. When World War II started, the attitude towards the Jews changed as well.
a. Regarding the Jews, what had been the goal of the Nazis before the war?

6. When World War II started, the attitude towards the Jews changed as well.
b. Explain how the Nazi’s attitude towards Jews changed after the war started.

7. Put the events in the correct chronological order

Nuremberg laws

mass executions

Jewish civil servants 

are fired

Kristallnacht

Jews are banished from public facilities

Jews are forced to live in gettos

Read "Nazi Human Experimentation"
8. The experiments of Nazi scientists such as Josef Mengele were very cruel and inhumane and are now considered as medical torture. Why was it so important for Hitler to find a way to manipulate human genetics?

Read "the Holocaust" and look at the picture: A gas chamber
disguised as showers - Auschwitz

9. Why would the nazis disguise the gas chambers as showers?

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