WWII/HOLOCAUST QUESTIONS (also on handout from class)
1. Between WWI and WWII, what problems existed in Germany?
2. How did these problems give rise to Hitler and the Nazis, and the subsequent persecution of Jews and political
opponents?
3. What is it about Hitler that makes him so powerful?
4. Why are the Jews used as scapegoats by Hitler and the Nazis?
5. Who are the Allies? Who are the Axis Powers? Who are the leaders of each country?
6. What rights are taken away from the Jews by the Nazis? How are they persecuted and restricted, and what are the
kinds of things done to them?
7. Who is excluded from Hitler's "Master Race", and what are his plans for them?
8. How would you feel if you were not to be a part of this "Master Race"? Why do you think you would feel this way?
9. Who was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and why is he important? Who was Father Jaques de Jésus, and why is he
important?
10. Who are some (2-3) other Catholics of the Holocaust, and what did teach of them do that makes us characterize them as "heroes"?
SOURCES for RESEARCH
ONLINE RESOURCES:
Between the World Wars
WWII in brief
U.S. Holocaust Museum, great search index
Holocaust Timeline…[print]
Graphic organizer/outline history of WWII & Holocaust
A Holocaust Hero
1937 Encyclical issued (in German)by Pius XI, largely written by Cardinal Eugene Pacelli (later Pius XII). The Nazi Foreign Office
termed it a call to battle…as it calls upon Catholic citizens to rebel against the authority of the Reich
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Text article, Catholic Heroes of the Holocaust
< Church Rescue Efforts, WWII
PRINT RESOURCES
Catalogue Plus (the TG library catalogue)
ProQuest (the TG ONLINE Resource for periodicals). Click here for ProQuest:
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