1. List three ways in which World War I and the Treaty of Versailles led to political instability in Germany.
2. In his book Mein Kampf [“My Struggle”], what goals does Hitler advocate for Germany?
3. How did Adolf Hitler become chancellor of Germany in 1933? How did he become the
Führer and sole head of government in 1934?
4. How did the 1935 Nuremberg laws affect German Jews?
5. Under Nazi racial ideology, what groups were considered racially inferior?
6. List three ways the German government tried to isolate and persecute Jews between
1933-1938.
7. What factors made it difficult for Jews to emigrate from Germany?
8. How did German authorities treat the Jewish populations of the occupied eastern
territories during World War II?
9. How did American soldiers react to the liberation of concentration camps?
10. Why do you think it is important to learn about the Holocaust?