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| What were obstacles to Jewish resistance? | The superior, armed power of the Germans, the German tactic of collective responsibility, Nazi destruction of political opposition and resistance, The isolation of Jews and lack of weapons, secrecy and deceptions of deportations. |
| What is collective responsibility? | When entire families and communities were held responsible for individual acts of armed and unarmed resistance. |
| Where do we get our evidence of Jewish resistance? | from survivors and documents |
| Why did the German's not take photos of Jewish resistance? | They did not want proof of Jewish revolts and uprisings and there was no time for Nazi's to take snapshots, they must put down the revolt. |
| What types of spiritual resistance was used by the Jews? | having the will to live, living was actually a form of resistance. They tried to stay as clean as possible to avoid disease even if it meant washing with no soap and in dirty water. They wished to bear witness, intiated work slowdowns, they wanted to make sure one family member survived, they ran underground newspapers, committed acts of sabatoge, continued to study Judiasim and celebrate Jewish holidays, and they documented the Holocaust through chronicles. |
| What is armed resistance? | the actual use of weapons to resist the Nazis |
| In the ghettos, what age group of people often organized the revolts? | the young- they were the first to believe rumors about concentration camps and mass murder. |
| In what ghetto was the most famous revolt led? | Warsaw |
| In what camp was a furnance blown up? | Birkenau |
| What was the usual cost of a revolt? | death |
| Were many escapes successful? | no |
| Those who escaped from trains, ghettos, and camps and fled to the forest to fight. | partisans |
| Compared with other countries, did Germany have a strong resistance movement to the Holocaust? | no |
| what made it difficult for the majority of Germans to oppose Nazi policies? | feelings of patriotism and nationalism as well as the ruthless nature of spies and informers |
| This was the only German group to speak out against Nazi genocidal policies. | The White Rose |
| This group was led by Hans and Sophie Scholl and they printed leaflets opposing Hitler and the regime. They were caust and executed. | The White Rose |
| He was a colonel in the Germany army who helped to plot the assassination of Hitler and then establish a government that would make peace with the Allies. | Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg |
| He was a Catholic preist who protested the Nazi euthanasia program. | Father Bernhard Lichtenberg |
| This religious group was known as the International Bible Students and many of them refused to swear allegiant to or fight in the army. They refused to raise their arms in the Heil Hilter salute, they did not vote in elections, and would not join the army after the reintroduction of compulsory military service. | Jehovah Witnesses |
| Unlike other groups of Holocaust victims, this group could escape persecution by simply signing a declaration renouncing their faith, but almost none did, even when tortured. | Jehovah Witness |
