The Nazis Disc 2 Episode 2

Answer these questions with complete sentences and thoughts.

1. What euphemism did the Nazis use for the path to the gas chambers?
2. Why were Jews first sent to ghettos instead of straight to concentration camps?
3. What role could Madagascar have played in Nazis plan for the Jews?
4. Why did Germany invade the Soviet Union in the spring of 1941? Why was it a
crusade?
5. How was the war on the eastern front different from the war on the western front?
6. How were eastern Jews portrayed in Nazi propaganda films?
7. What kind of person was Heydrich?
8. What did all four of the Einsatzgruppen leaders have in common?
9. What had the Soviet Union done in Lithuania before the Nazis arrived?
10. Why were the Nazis greeted as liberators by the Lithuanians?
11. What justification did the Nazis give/use for killing all Jews in the newly-acquired
territory?
12. What was Himmlers justification for killing children?
13. Himmler needed a more humane way to kill. What does this really mean?
14. What happened to members of the killing squads after the war ended?
15. Zelionka, the Lithuanian who participated in the slaughters . . . Does he feel guilty?
How does he justify his behavior?
16. Which two policies concerning Jews were announced in the fall of 1941?
17. What happened at the Wannsee Conference in January, 1942?
18. What are/were the four steps of the incremental persecution of the Jews?
19. How did Erwin Massuthe react to all the deportations he witnessed in Berlin?
20. If you could ask Samuel Willenberg one question, what would it be?