Nazis Part 1: Helped Into Power (Video Questions)

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Nazis Part 1 Helped Into Power (Video Questions)
1) How did Germans allow Hitler the Nazis to
come to power?
2) What conditions existed in southern Germany
(Bavaria) after WWI to help create the Nazi party?
3) What factors contributed to German hatred and
anger that were used by Hitler and the Nazis in
their speeches?
4) What specific events of 1923-1924 illustrate
the instabilities of Germany under the Weimar
Republic?
5) What specific views characterized the Nazi
Party by the mid 1920s?
6) What changing circumstances helped the Nazis
into power from the late 1920s into the early
1930s?
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Nazis Part 2 Chaos Consent (Video Questions)
1) Hitler and the Nazis were obsessed with
creating an ordered society, but in reality that
order was only an illusion. Explain why give
evidence.
2) Many scholars have claimed that the Nazis
brainwashed ordinary Germans. Why does this NOT
accurately describe the Gestapos activities in
the city of Würzburg? Explain.
3) Hitler avoided offering detailed policies for
running the Nazi government. How then did the
government operate how was this connected to
Hitlers belief in constant competition?
Explain.
4) There was a vicious battle over who controlled
the mail to Hitler. How did a letter to Philipp
Bouhler in late 1938 or early 1939 lead to the
killing of several thousand babies children?
Elaborate.
5) One way to gain the favor of the Führer was by
feeding his antisemitism. How did Joseph
Goebbels actions in this regard lead to the
deaths of 800 Jews destruction of 1,000
synagogues in November 1938? Explain.
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Nazis Part 3 The Wrong War (Video Questions)
1) What does the title The Wrong War mean?
Elaborate.
2) What specifically did Hitler admire about the
British? Explain.
3) Hitler claimed that Germany wasnt big enough.
Why did he believe this what actions did he
take that were motivated by this belief?
4) After humiliating President Hacha in March of
1939, German troops entered Czechoslovakia. Why
was this a significant turning point in 20th
century history?
5) Hitlers plan to invade Poland meant a war
with France Britain. Why then did he seek an
alliance with Stalin in the summer of 1939?
Explain.
6) Why did Neville Chamberlain go to Munich in
September of 1938? What was the significance of
this meeting? Explain.
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Nazis Part 4 The Wild East (Video Questions)
1) How did the Nazis divide run German-occupied
Poland in the first 20 months after invading in
September 1939?
2) In what specific ways did Albert Forster
(Danzig-West Prussia) Arthur Greiser (the
Warthegau) differ in their approach to
Germanizing Poland?
3) How were incoming ethnic Germans from
neighboring countries dealt with? Where did they
live work, for example?
4) The General Government of German-occupied
Poland was treated like a racial dumping ground.
In practice, what did this mean for millions of
Poles and 3 million Polish Jews? Elaborate.
5) Who was Hans Biebow how did he deal with the
Jews in the Lodz ghetto? Explain.
6) While being tried as a war criminal in 1946,
Arthur Greiser claimed that he was acting under
orders a victim of Hitlers policies. Why
is this defense simply not believable? Explain.
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Nazis Part 5 The Road to Treblinka (Video
Questions)
1) How could such places as Treblinka ever come
to exist?
2) Why was the war to the East different from the
war elsewhere? Explain. Why was it a war of
annihilation?
3) Why were Nazis in Lithuania welcomed as
liberators initially? How why did local
collaborators assist the Einsatzgruppen?
4) In what specific ways did the treatment of
German Jews change by September 1941? What were
Heydrichs Himmlers roles?
5) Although the Nazis attempted to keep the fate
of the Jews secret, was it really a secret? How
did most Germans react?
6) How did the death camp at Treblinka operate?
Who is Samuel Willenberg?
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Nazis Part 6 Fighting to the End (Video
Questions)
1) Why couldnt Germany get rid of Hitler as
easily as Italy disposed of Mussolini?
2) Why was the war to the East different than the
war elsewhere?
3) What was the most significant attempt on
Hitlers life and how did Germans react to it?
4) In what ways did the Nazis racist ideology
benefit almost all Germans during the war?
5) How did the Nazi ideology influence ordinary
Germans ability to cope with losing the war?
6) What specific factors led Germans to keep
fighting to the very end?
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The Final Solution Part 2 (Video Questions)
1) What was purpose significance of the meeting
at Wannsee in January 1942?
2) What was the purpose of the camp at Westerbork
in Holland? Describe.
3) According to survivors, what was the journey
like from the ghettoes to Auschwitz?
4) How did the process of selection work at
Auschwitz? Meaning of being sent to left or
right?
5) What types of experiments did Nazis perform on
inmates at Auschwitz?
6) Why is it important that we listen to
survivors tell their stories? What specific
characteristics make this documentary from 1973
effective?
You can stop watching after the survivor plays
his harmonica 53 minutes