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. .