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| This was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. | The Holocaust |
| The word Holocaust is a word of Greek origin. What does it mean? | sacrifice by fire |
| What term did the Nazi's use to refer to the killing of Jews? | The Final Solution |
| What are some reasons we should study the Holocaust? | It was a major event in world history. It helps us to understand ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping. It helps us to explore the dangers of remaining silent. To help use understand how a modern nation can use technology to implement destructive policies such as genocide. To think about the use and abuse of power, the roles and responsibilities of individuals , organizations and nations, the dangers of being silent and the help us gain insight into historical, religious, political and economic factors that cumulatively resulted in the Holocaust. |
| Why do some people believe the Holocaust never happened? | It is impossible for them to imagine that a group could commit the murder of six million people. |
| This word has its root in the Latin and means to judge without knowing | prejudice |
| Who came into control of the area historically occupied by the Jews? | The Romans |
| What important event happened in 70 A.D.? | The Jews rebelled against Rome and the temple of Jerusalem was destroyed. |
| What does the term diaspora refer to? | The dispersal of the Jews throughout the Roman empire |
| Who first coined the term Anti-Semitism? | Wilhelm Marr |
| Why did the Romans dislike the Jews? | They would not swear allegience to them. |
| What century or event marks the first real massacre of Jews in Europe? | The 11th century crusades |
| Who was the Pope during the first crusade who wanted to liberate Jerusalem from the control of Islam? | Pope Urban II |
| What was the rumor of blood libel? | It was the rumor that Jews, usually led by rabbis, kidnapped Christian children on Jewish holidays in order to bleed them to death for occult |
| What rumor was started that blamed the Jews for the start of the Black Plague? | They said that the Jews poisoned the drinking wells and that is what caused the Black Plague. |
| What were some of the restrictions placed on Jews during the Middle Ages? | They were not allowed to own land, they could not farm, most professions were off limits to them, they were not allowed to join guilds, barred from manufacturing activities, could not hold offices, could not practice law or medicine. |
| What was one profession that was open to the Jews? | usury or lending money |
| What was the Protestant Reformation? | The split between the Catholic and Protestant Churches |
| Why did Martin Luther accept the Jews at first? | He thought he could convert them to Lutheranism. |
| What was the attitude toward the Jews during the 16th and 18th centuries? | It went back and forth, but the most part, conditions improved. Many nations granted them full citizenship and removed teh economic, social and religious constraints that had opressed the Jews for centuries. |
| How were Jews treated in the 1800's | They assimilated into German society, they emerged from the ghettos, they saw themselves as German citizens who happened to be Jewish. |
| When does racial descrimination of the Jews begin? | before World War I |
| In Germany, when did Anti-Semitism become part of the political agenda? | Not until the rise of the Nazis |
| What was the T-4 program? | It was a euthanasia program that was implemented in Germany |
| What did the Civil Service Law do? | It said any government employee could be dismissed for any reason at all. Suddenly the bureaucracy was compliant. Other laws followed which banned Jews from schools, other professions adn from owning land. |
| What were the Nuremberg laws? | These were laws that withdrew citizenship from the Jews. Now they were only subjects. They forbade marriage ans sexual relations between Jews and Germans. |
| This was the Night of the Broken Glass. | Kristallnacht |
| This was the name of the mobile killing squads. | Einsatzgruppen |
