Knowledge and
Understanding
Holocaust Revision
Some basics for your test.
The Nazis and the “Jewish
Problem”
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Write down what was
meant by the “Jewish
Problem”.
The 3 Solutions to the “Jewish
Problem”
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1st Solution:
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2nd Solution:
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Final Solution:
Jews put in Ghettoes
Jews not allowed to
work
Death Camps
Judenrat set up
Jewish property taken
away
Kristallnacht
Jews mass murdered
Who was guilty?
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down who you think was guilty
of carrying out the Holocaust; Nazis,
the SS, Railway workers, ordinary
German people?
Normal people
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How would you feel as a normal German
in Nazi Germany, or as a Jew? (write
down what you think!)
Do you remember?
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How did the Nazis persuade…
the German people to support them?
The authorities in countries they conquered
to help them find Jews?
What does this map show us?
30 January
1933
Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
11 March
1933
The SA attack Jewish shops
9th November
1938
Kristallnacht; a night of extreme violence against
Jews occurs. Over 90 Jews killed and thousands
put in concentration camps.
8th October
1939
World War II begins with the invasion of Poland.
First Jewish Ghetto in Poland established.
September
1941
34,000 Jews are murdered at Babi Yar in the
Ukraine, being shot after digging their own
burial pits.
3rd
First gassings occur at Auschwitz concentration
camp.
Septemb
er 1941
8th December
1941
Start of mass killings of Jews, using gas.
30th April
1945
Hitler commits suicide. The end of the Third Reich.
Two historians debate the guilt of German Railway
workers, during the Holocaust.
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The German railway workers had
to help the Nazis dispose of Jews.
Though there were no protests or
strikes, every German lived in an
atmosphere of fear and suspicion.
If one even mentioned they did
not want any part in this terrible
murder, they would be arrested
themselves. By the time of the
holocaust, Hitler had a tight grip
on his people, so they dared not
disobey. For this reason, we
cannot hold these workers
responsible in the same way as
the SS, or the Nazis themselves.
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The German State Railway
Service took a full part in the
holocaust of the Jews and other
so called “undesirables”. Without
the help of German railway
workers the holocaust could not
have happened. If the railway
workers had protested or refused
to transport the Jews, they may
have been able to save
thousands of lives. Some were
Nazis themselves, and hated
Jews. These workers are guilty as
they must have known where they
were taking their prisoners- to an
almost certain death.
How to answer this question…
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These historians disagree about the guilt of
German railway workers…
The first Historian says… whereas the
second Historian says…
Again, the first historian says… whereas
the second historian says…