Online Readings for Module 3 Instructions On D2L you will find clickable links to the webpages cited below. It will be easier to use the links on D2L than to try and type out the URLS listed below. I have included them in the Course Packet as insurance (if D2L does down during the semester.) I test the links regularly. . Webpages United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students Scroll down and click on link Nazi Racism. Also take a look at the link View Photographs on the right. When finished reading, go back to previous page. Scroll down and click on link Nuremberg Race Laws. When finished reading, go back to previous page. Scroll down and click on link The Night of Broken Glass. When finished reading, go back to previous page. Scroll down and click on link The Evian Conference. When finished reading, go back to previous page. Scroll down and click on link Voyage of the St. Lewis. When finished reading, go back to previous page. Scroll down and click on link Locating the Victims. Yad Vashem Website: The Holocaust Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1939 (on left-side menu) Introduction The Rise of the Nazis and Beginning of Persecution (on left side menu) Click on the link, Dachau Concentration Camp (8 Paragraph) and read linked PDF. Clink on the link, concentration camps (8 Paragraph) and read linked PDF. Click on link Nuremberg Laws (last paragraph) and read linked PDF. Persecution of non-Jews (on left side menu). Clink on the link, Sinti and Roma (1 line) and read linked PDF. Clink on the link, Homosexuals (2 paragraph) and read linked PDF. Clink on the link, Jehovahs Witnesses (last paragraph) and read linked PDF. 1938 (on left side of menu) Click on the link Walter Funk (1 paragraph) and read linked PDF. Click on the link Zbaszyn (3 paragraph) and read linked PDF. Click on the link Kristallnacht (5 paragraph) and read linked PDF. Click on the link Joseph Goebbels (5 paragraph) and read linked PDF. Click on the link Aryanization (6 paragraph) and read linked PDF. Click on the link conference in Evian (last paragraph) and read linked PDF. Click on the link conference in Evian (last paragraph) and read linked PDF. 1. How did tler and the Nazi view the Jews? 2. What was Nazi racial policy based on? 3. What became the primary goal of the German state under Nazism? 4. How was the Law to Prevent Hereditarily Diseased Offspring an example of euthanasia? 5. How did the Nuremberg Laws define a Jew and a German? What other legal definitions were formalized with the supplemental decree of the Nuremberg Law? 6. What did the German government do during the 1936 Olympic Games with regard to its antisemitic campaign? 7. What other measures did the German government tame in 1936 and 1938? 8. How was the German government able to police its policies regarding marriage and procreation? 9. Why does the US Holocaust Memorial Museum consider a pogrom? 10. What happened in 1938 to Polish Jewish refugees in Germany? What part did the Polish town of Zbaszyn play in linking the German treatment of Polish Jews in Germany and ? 11. Which Nazi personality took the lead in planning ? Who was he? And, what reason did he give for ? 12. What state-sponsored antisemitic policies were enacted in the aftermath of ? 13. Who was forced to pay for the damages done during ? 14. What was the German policy of Aryanization and consequences did it have for German Jews? 15. Why do historians considered the year 1938 to be a fateful year? 16. What new forms of violence were perpetrated against German Jews from 1938 onward? 17. Why do historians consider the Evian Conference as evidence of widespread antisemitism in Europe and the Americas? 18. What did the conference fail to do for persecuted European Jews? 19. What conclusions can you draw about the 32 countries represented at the conference? 20. Despite the conferences many failures what was its one big accomplishment? 21. What happened to efforts in the US Congress to pass legislation allowing approximately 20,000 Jewish children to find refuge in the US? 22. How did Shanghai, China become a refuge for European Jews? What happened to the Jews of Shanghai during World War II? 23. What did Britain did in 1939 regarding its immigration policy for the mandate of Palestine? 24. How does the story of the St. Louis illustrate American responsibility in the Holocaust? 25. How was the German government able to identify and keep track of Jews in Germany? 26. Dachau was the first concentration camps in Germany. What purpose did it serve between 1933 and 1935? 27. Who was the commandant and who assisted him in running the camp? 28. How did Dachau become a prototype of other camps elsewhere in Germany? 29. Yad Vashem divides the history of German concentration camps into three periods: 1933-36, 1936-1942 and 1942-44/45. Give a short description of what was distinctive about the camps in each period. 30. Why and how did the Nazis persecute the Sinti and Roma? 31. Why and how did the Nazis persecute homosexuals? 32. Why and how did the Nazis persecute the disabled? 33. Why and how did the Nazis persecute Catholics? 34. Why and how did the Nazis persecute Jehovahs Witnesses? 35. Yad Vashem gives a short description of Walther Funk. How was he implicated in the Holocaust as the German Economic Minister and president of the State Bank?
