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Quiz about Hitler  the Third Reich XIX    Jews  Camps
Quiz about Hitler  the Third Reich XIX    Jews  Camps

Hitler & the Third Reich: XIX - Jews & Camps Quiz


A quiz to test your knowledge on Jews that were associated directly, or indirectly, with the Third Reich. A few random questions have also been thrown in about various Nazi camps.

A multiple-choice quiz by Lssah. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
Lssah
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
334,721
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
5 / 10
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Question 1 of 10
1. The Jews were fined 1 billion Reichsmarks for the damage caused by the Nazis to Jewish stores and synagogues during Kristallnacht.


Question 2 of 10
2. What event/achievement/action did Mordecai Anielewicz, a Polish Jew, do during World War II? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What event was triggered by the actions of a young Polish Jew by the name of Herschel Grynszpan? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. What was the name of the product most commonly used to gas the Jews at Auschwitz? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. In 1933 a group of SS soldiers were arrested for killing Jews at the Aschaffenburg concentration camp.


Question 6 of 10
6. What do the camps named Hindenburg, Nordland and Siegfried, have in common?

Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. What was the name of the most notorious Gestapo prison camp used between 1933 and 1934? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Hermine Braunsteiner was female guard in the Ravensbruck concentration camp from 1941-1942, then moved to the Majdanek. After the war she was convicted of murder for her roles within the concentration camps and spent three years in prison.

What happened after her release?
Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. The Giado concentration camp was located in what country? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. What is generally considered to be the approximate number of Jewish victims murdered by the Nazi s during the Holocaust? Hint



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1. The Jews were fined 1 billion Reichsmarks for the damage caused by the Nazis to Jewish stores and synagogues during Kristallnacht.

Answer: True

Even though the Jews were the victims of Kristallnacht it didn't stop the Nazis from billing them! (Thereafter Jews emigrating from Germany had to pay their 'share' of the fine in addition to paying for permission to leave the country).


There was worldwide outrage over the events of Kristallnacht, but in the end, no action was taken over the human rights violations against the Jews.
2. What event/achievement/action did Mordecai Anielewicz, a Polish Jew, do during World War II?

Answer: He led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.

After Poland fell in 1939 the Jews were rounded up and forced to live in ghettos. Life for the Jews inside the ghettos was very harsh and deteriorated, and the ghettos were horribly overcrowded. Death from disease and starvation was commonplace for the occupants.

Mordecai Anielewicz was the leader of a group known as the Jewish Combat Organization (ZOB - Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa). He was only aged 24 at the time). Plans were drawn up to rebel against the Jewish Council (Judenrat) and the Nazi regime, and weapons were slowly smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto for the pending revolt. The Warsaw Uprising took place from April 19, 1943 until May 16, 1943. The odds were stacked overwhelmingly against the Jews, and although they fought bravely the German forces overwhelmed them. The German losses were 17 dead and 93 wounded. The Jews suffered over 13,000 dead and that didn't take into account those that suffered reprisals after the revolt was crushed.

The movie "Uprising" tells the tale of the Warsaw Uprising.
3. What event was triggered by the actions of a young Polish Jew by the name of Herschel Grynszpan?

Answer: Kristallnacht

Herschel Grynszpan walked into the German Embassy in Paris, France and shot a German diplomat by the name of Ernst vom Rath. The assassination took place on November 7, 1938. Two days later Kristallnacht took place as a reprisal.
4. What was the name of the product most commonly used to gas the Jews at Auschwitz?

Answer: Zyklon-B

Zyklon-B was a cyanide based product that was used to kill the Jews. It was first used on children at the Buchenwald camp in 1940, and then experiments using the gas were conducted at Auschwitz in 1941. Zyklon-B was in pellet form and was dropped into the gas chambers from above. The pellets gave off poisonous vapor.

The only other camp to use Zyklon-B routinely was Majdanek. All other camps used carbon monoxide.
5. In 1933 a group of SS soldiers were arrested for killing Jews at the Aschaffenburg concentration camp.

Answer: True

The local police arrested the SS soldiers on charges of murder. Aschaffenburg concentration camp was located in Bavaria. Himmler stepped in and claimed that when on duty the SS were not subject to the ordinary laws of the land, only to SS discipline. The charges against the SS soldiers were subsequently dropped and the principle of 'subject only to SS discipline' was central to the future mass exterminations.
6. What do the camps named Hindenburg, Nordland and Siegfried, have in common?

Answer: They were Nazi youth training camps located in the United States.

Camp Hindenburg was located in Winconsin, Camp Norland in New Jersey and Siegfried on Long Island, New York.

They were Hitler Youth training camps built by a group known as the German American Bund (bund is German for league or alliance) prior to the outbreak of WWII. Also known as "the Bund", the organisation had over 10,000 members. (This Bund should *not* be confused with the Jewish Bund).
7. What was the name of the most notorious Gestapo prison camp used between 1933 and 1934?

Answer: Columbia House

The Gestapo used Columbia House as their prison in 1933 due to overcrowding within the prison complex at the Gestapo headquarters in Berlin. Treatment of the prisoners was especially brutal, and they were subjected to regular beatings and torture. Columbia House was turned into a concentration camp in 1934 and was shut down in 1936.
Theresienstadt, also known as Terezín, was a concentration camp established by the Gestapo in 1940 and also a ghetto and transit camp.
Pawiak prison was an existing Polish prison prior to WWII. It was later utilised by the Gestapo, after 1939, as a prison facility.
8. Hermine Braunsteiner was female guard in the Ravensbruck concentration camp from 1941-1942, then moved to the Majdanek. After the war she was convicted of murder for her roles within the concentration camps and spent three years in prison. What happened after her release?

Answer: She moved to America, and would become the first U.S. resident to be extradited for Nazi war crimes.

Upon her release from the Austrian prison she was granted amnesty from further prosecution in Austria.
She married an American, moved to the United States and became an American citizen in 1963. Accused of war crimes, for her involvement in murders within concentration camps, she was stripped of her American citizenship and was extradited back to Germany for another trial.
9. The Giado concentration camp was located in what country?

Answer: Libya.

The Giado camp was located south of Tripoli. Over 3,000 Jews - interned by the Italians passed through the gates. Of all the camps in Libya, Giado was considered the worst.

Other concentration camps located in Libya were the Gharyan, Jeren, Tigrinna and Sidi Azaz camps.
10. What is generally considered to be the approximate number of Jewish victims murdered by the Nazi s during the Holocaust?

Answer: 6 Million

Although there is no precise figure, the estimate of 6 million has been widely accepted since 1945 and broadly confirmed by subsquent research.

Many non-Jewish people also died at the hands of the Nazis, including Roma ('Gypsies), homosexuals, opponents of the regime and other "undesirables". Various figures are given (for example, about 5 million) but one needs to know exactly which groups are included.
Source: Author Lssah

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