Introduction to the Holocaust-Questions and Answers Graded A+

Introduction to the Holocaust-Questions and Answers Graded A+ What was The Holocaust? - ANSWER-A systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. .What German political party carried out The Holocaust? - ANSWER-The Nazis Why did the Nazis initiate The Holocaust? - ANSWER-They believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. Besides Jews, what other groups were targeted by the Nazis? - ANSWER-Roma (Gypsies), Slavic peoples ( Poles , Russians, and others), Communists, Socialists, trade unionists, Jehovah's Witnesses , and homosexuals. What was the Jewish population before and after The Holocaust? - ANSWER-In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews. What was the name of the Nazi policy that organized the murder of all European Jews? - ANSWER-The " Final Solution ". Name four different types of places where the Nazis detained "real and imagined political and ideological opponents." - ANSWER-Concentration camps, ghettos, transit camps, forced-labor camps, extermination camps What were einsatzgruppen? - ANSWER-Mobile killing units created after the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 responsible for the deaths of more than one million people When a person from a Nazi-occupied country was deported by the Nazis, where were they sent? - ANSWER-Ghettos and killing centers , often called extermination camps, where they were murdered in specially developed gassing facilities . What was a "death march"? - ANSWER-Movement by train or on foot in an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners. What does it mean to "liberate" a concentration camp? - ANSWER-To set the prisoners free When did the German forces surrender to the Allies? - ANSWER-May 7, 1945 and May 8 (V-E Day) What is a displaced person (DP)? - ANSWER-A survivor of The Holocaust who found shelter in a DP camp administered by the Allied powers. Where did many DPs go after the end of the war? - ANSWER-Israel, United States and other nations. What does the word "holocaust" actually mean? - ANSWER-Sacrifice by fire