Master Race (50 Min) Name ______Hour _____
Introduction: The Holocaust ranks among the darkest chapters in the history of man. In the end, the death toll would surpass eleven million, many of them Jews. These murders were a direct result of hate. Where did this hate come from? Who fueled the hate and how was it achieved?
1. Hitler became chancellor though a political ______.
2. T F Germans who were attracted by a more orderly & united society had to accept his methods.
3. Political opponents were put into ______.
4. Socialism and ______were considered dangerous idealogies.
5. ______were burned and labor unions were ______.
6. T F Over 90% of the people were behind everything that happened.
7. The one idea put out above all else was the greatness of the ______.
8. To get national unity the government blamed the ______.
9. Of Germany’s ______million Jews, only a minority were ultra Orthodox.
10. In April of 1933, Hitler & Goebbels ordered a national boycott of ______.
11. T F Most Germans disagreed with the defacing of Jewish businesses.
12. The Nazis created a historical myth that purebred Germans were naturally ______.
13. The spearhead of the drive to confirm Germans as the master race was ______.
14. Germans were encouraged to ______their racial stock.
15. The ideal German was self-disciplined and ______.
16. Living the ideal German life was for the Fuhrer and the ______.
17. ______blue eyed people were admired.
18. Jewish people were condemned as an ______race.
19. German people were taught to be on the lookout for and to identify Jews through the book, The ______.
20. Signs were put up saying ______not wanted here.
21. T F The gypsies also were people that did not fit in.
22. Gypsies were considered a dirty & ______nuisance.
23. Germans were gaining ______under Hitler.
24. Hitler’s armament program cut unemployment by ______million.
25. In March, 1938 German absorbed ______.
26. T F This made anti-Semitism in Austria worse.
27. On November 9, 1938, or “Kristallnacht” (night of broken glass) over ______synagogues were burned and over ______Jews were rounded up.
28. Nearly ______Jews emigrated (left Germany) in 1938-39.
29. In September 1939, the ______began.
30. After the war started, Hitler began having the mentally ill & handicapped ______.
31. T F Nazis moved against Jews only in Germany.
32. In the Warsaw ghetto, the daily food ration for the Jews was ______calories – forced starvation.
33. The decision to kill all Jews systematically was called the Final ______.
34. Shootings took place in thousands of ______& ______.
35. T F Jews were transported to concentration camps from all over.
36. ______in southern Poland was the largest concentration camp.
37. The ______million Jews became the ______group of people killed by the Nazis.
38. When the camps were liberated, local ______were brought in to see what had been done.