Holocaust Document Based Question
This question is based on the accompanying documents. The question is designed to test your ability to work with historical documents, such as primary and secondary sources. You are to analyze and interpret each document, and use them as sources for your essay.
Part A
Historical Context: Genocide Holocaust
Task:
Using information from the documents and your knowledge of global history, answer the questions that follow each document in Part A. Your answers to the questions will help you write the part B essay in which you will be asked to explain:
• What were the precipitating factors to the Holocaust?
• What were the political, economic, and social repercussions of the Holocaust?
• How could a genocide
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Adequately describes the precipitating factors to the Holocaust and how the Holocaust manifested. Gaps in the understanding of the Holocaust. Includes some factual errors and misrepresentations. Demonstrates little to no knowledge of the precipitating factors to the Holocaust or how the Holocaust manifested.
References Makes abundant use of sources from the DBQ. Uses some references from the DBQ. Only includes one reference from DBQ. Does not include any references from the DBQ.
Sentence, structure, and grammar. Introduction, 2-3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion with no grammatical errors. There are three complete paragraphs, some are not indented. Introduction and conclusion are incomplete, contains some grammatical errors. Abundant grammatical errors, essay is not structured in paragraphs.
Part A
Short Answer Questions
Document #1 Speech by Joseph Goebbels on Kristallnacht
“It is an intolerable state of affairs [Goebbels told members of the press] that within our borders and for all these years hundreds of thousands of Jews still control whole streets of shops, populate our recreation spots and, as foreign apartment owners, pocket the money of German tenants, while their racial comrades abroad agitate for war against Germany and gun down German
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This very fact admits of the not unfounded inference that he alone was the founder of all higher humanity, therefore representing the prototype of all that we understand by the word 'man.' He is the Prometheus of mankind from whose shining brow the divine spark of genius has sprung at all times, forever kindling anew that fire of knowledge which illuminated the night of silent mysteries and thus caused man to climb the path to mastery over the other beings of the earth ... It was he who laid the foundations and erected the walls of every great structure in human
What two significant historical events/ trends were occurring when the document was created? Do not include the specific document, but select related events or trends that contextualize the document. What is the context (background and events going on) of this primary source? Include 1-2 sentences explaining the event/ trend.
Kershaw later depicts a comment made by Hitler discussing the dire need to deport German Jews, away from the ‘Procterate,’ calling them “dangerous ‘fifth columnists’” that threatened the integrity of Germany. In 1941, Hitler discusses, more fervently his anger towards the Jews, claiming them to responsible for the deaths caused by the First World War: “this criminal race has the two million dead of the World War on its conscience…don’t anyone tell me we can’t send them into the marshes (Morast)!” (Kershaw 30). These recorded comments illustrate the deep rooted hatred and resentment Hitler held for the Jewish population that proved ultimately dangerous. Though these anti-Semitic remarks and beliefs existed among the entirety of the Nazi Political party, it didn’t become a nationwide prejudice until Hitler established such ideologies through the use of oral performance and
The Holocaust in general was a very terrible time period. There was a lot of horrible misunderstandings in this period of time. I think of it as these people were brainwashed and had no one better to look up to so they went with what he said. Hitler lied to them unt...
Answer the following questions with information you learned in the document , your book, and through Internet research:
Everyone thought slavery was horrific but what Hitler did to the Jewish community was just as bad, if not, worse. A lot of us are oblivious to what really happened; the Jews were just another minority that got the short end of the stick. Millions of innocent Jews died due to Hitler and his rules.
Holocaust Facts The Holocaust has many reasons for it. Some peoples’ questions are never answered about the Holocaust, and some answers are. The Holocaust killed over 6 million Jews (Byers.p.10.) Over 1.5 million children (Byers, p. 10). They were all sent to concentration camps to do hard labor work.
For many years, people time and time again denied the happenings of the Holocaust or partially understood what was happening. Even in today’s world, when one hears the word ‘Holocaust’, they immediately picture the Nazi’s persecution upon millions of innocent Jews, but this is not entirely correct. This is because Jews
Millions upon millions of people were killed in the holocaust, that is just one of many genocides. There are many similarities between different genocides. Throughout history, many aggressors have started and attempted genocides and violence on the basis of someone being the "other".
Holocaust Hero: A One of a Kind Man. What is a hero? A hero can be classified as a number of things. A hero can be a person who, in the opinions of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal.
How can one philosophically look past the act of genocide without mustering a plan to unite and prevent such an inhumane action? Genocide has been occurring for many decades whether it is publicized or left unnoticed. The act is carried out by many methods in which humans, such as you and I, are dehumanized and stripped of their dignity. For example, Jews and Rwandans were forced to carry or wear symbols and cards to exploit their ethnic identity, making them vulnerable to violent acts carried out by those not in favor of their ethnicity. Can the world resolve the problem of genocide, the acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, as stated by Raphael Lemkin? Genocide can be prevented by establishing legal notions and international law, human rights protected by strict law, and awareness and teamwork worldwide.
What is genocide? “Genocide is a deliberate, systematic destruction of racial cultural or political groups.”(Feldman 29) What is the Holocaust? “Holocaust, the period between 1933-1945 when Nazi Germany systematically persecuted and murdered millions of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and many other people.”(Feldman 29) These two things tie into each other.The Holocaust was a genocide. Many innocent people were torn apart from their families, for many never to see them again. This murder of the “Jewish people of Europe began in spring 1941.”( Feldman 213) The Holocaust was one of the most harshest things done to mankind.
One cold, snowy night in the Ghetto I was woke by a screeching cry. I got up and looked out the window and saw Nazis taking a Jewish family out from their home and onto a transport. I felt an overwhelming amount of fear for my family that we will most likely be taken next. I could not go back to bed because of a horrid feeling that I could not sleep with.
“The modern German anti-Semitism was based on racial ideology which stated that the Jews were subhuman while the “Aryan” race was ultimately superior,” ("Nazi Propaganda"): (Goebbels)“I beg you and particularly those of you who carry the cross throughout the land to become somewhat more serious when I speak of the enemy of the German people, namely, the Jew, ("Nazi Propaganda"). “Streicher declared: "You must realize that the Jew wants our people to perish. That is why you must join us and leave those who have brought you nothing but war, inflation, and discord",” ("Nazi Propaganda"). “We know that Germany will be free when the Jew has been excluded from the life of the German people,” ("Ministry Of Public Enlightenment"). After Goebbels 's started to target the Jew’s with mean propaganda: It made blaming Jews a lot easier for Germany’s
My name is Eva Berlinski. I’m only 13 years old and I was brought up
The Holocaust was one of the most tragic and trying times for the Jewish people. Hundreds of thousands of Jews and other minorities that the Nazis considered undesirable were detained in concentration camps, death camps, or labor camps. There, they were forced to work and live in the harshest of conditions, starved, and brutally murdered. Horrific things went on in Auschwitz and Majdenek during the Holocaust that wiped out approximately 1,378,000 people combined. “There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.” –Fidel Castro