1) Deadly Medicine:Creating the Master Race~
Hereditary Health Cards
What were Hereditary Health cards?
What kinds of information did they give about the person?
Who collected them, and how is their existence relevant to the Holocaust?
Marriage Counseling Poster
When did these become popular?
Why did couples go to marriage counselors?
What marital health law was created in 1935?
Racial Defilement Poster
What is racial defilement according to this poster?
What were common punishments for racial defilement?
According to the poster and Nazi racial eugenics, what were Jews?
Why were the Nazi's so afraid of mixing races?
Hygeine Museum Poster
What exhibit what displayed in a German city in 1911?
What does the big eye symbolize?
SS Propaganda
What does the Propaganda portray about the Jews?
What other groups does this propaganda target, and how?
"Euthanasia" Form
What kinds of questions did the forms ask?
When and where were they given out and by who?
Exhibition Narrative:
(Nazi eye color chart)
What was the goal behind Weimar eugneics?
Who helped advocate this?
Nazi Racial Hygiene
What occurred on July 14, 1933?
How was the idea of eugenics percieved internationally?
What is the "blood protection law"?
Murderous Racial Hygiene
What does "euthanasia" mean? How was it used as a justification for genocide?
Who were among the first victims of euthanasia?
What was "operation T-4"?
2) Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals~
(Homosexuals in a concentration camp)
Crackdown, Surveillance, and Police Lists
After appointing Hitler as chancellor, what were some of the first steps taken against homosexuals?
What happened to the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin? Who participated?
A regulation issued in February 1934 allowed surveillance of who?
Paragraph 175
What was paragraph 175?
When was it written?
What qualified as "indecency" according Paragraph 175?
The punishments for breaking the law stated in paragraph 175 varied. Describe several in the range of severity.
Denunciations, Arrests, Convictions
How were these men discovered and taken away?
What was the "re-education" program?
Protective Custody in Concentration Camps
Approximately how many homosexuals were detained during the Nazi reign in Germany?
How were the men identified in concentration camps?
What were some of the daily risks they faced?
3) Oscar Schindler~
If he was a member of the Nazi party, what made him decide to help people escape?
What did Schindler do in Krakow?
According to the video clip, What act of sabotage was attempted at a factory in Bruennlitz?
What was the purpose of the bogus munitions factory in Bruennlitz?
4) Varian Fry~
Who was he? Where was he from?
What was the Emergency Rescue Committee?
Where in Europe was Varian Fry sent?How did he help Holocaust victims?
How long did he stay in Europe?
Did he ever get caught?
History: Your job here is to read and learn about the personal histories of at least five individuals from different categories of the personal history page. Write down anything compelling from each person's story, being sure to include the information from the questions below.
(Holocaust survivor)
What lengths did people go to in order to fool the Nazi's?
Did the victim escape? what about his/her friends and family?
(Child of the Holocaust)
