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How much do you know about The Holocaust? | Quiz

This quiz is mainly about the Nazi plans to exterminate the Jews.

A multiple-choice quiz by Stephie07. Estimated time: 4 mins.

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Stephie07

Time
4 mins

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Multiple Choice

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43,624

Updated
Dec 03 21

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Question 1 of 10

1. This legislation gave Hitler the power to create laws. It was one of the first steps towards achieving his 'Final Solution'. Hint

Legal Act

Enabling Act

Lawmans Act

Schlieffen Act

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Question 2 of 10

2. The 'Reich Citizenship Law', or, 'The Law for the Protection of German Blood' reclassified Jews as second-class citizens. What name are these laws generally known by? Hint

The All-German Laws

The Nuremberg Laws

Free German Law

The Munich Laws

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Question 3 of 10

3. What is the 'Kristallnacht' usually called in English? Hint

'Night of the Broken Glass'

'Night of Aryan Victory'

'Night of Shattered Homes'

'Crystal Night'

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Question 4 of 10

4. In what year did the first concentration camp open? Hint

1941

1935

1933

1940

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which European country had the largest Jewish population prior to World War II with 3.3 million, amounting to 10 percent of the population as a whole? Hint

France

Austria

Poland

Germany

6. In 1939 Reinhard Heydrich decided to concentrate the Polish Jews into small urban areas to make them easier to handle. What name was given (unofficially) to these forced Jewish communities? Hint

'Councils'

Death Camps

Ghettos

'Semite Cities'

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Question 7 of 10

7. What were Jewish people ordered to wear in order to mark them out clearly from the rest of the population? Hint

Red Circle

Star of Jerusalem

Star of David

Black Triangle

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Question 8 of 10

8. How were Jews usually moved to extermination camps (except over very short distances)? Hint

In Third Class railway carriages

By ship

In 'Death Marches'

In enclosed cattle trucks (box cars)

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Question 9 of 10

9. For a while in 1940 the Nazi leaders considered shipping the European Jews to this island and dumping them there. Which island was was it? Hint

Cuba

Madagascar

New Guinea

Borneo

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which of these men edited a particularly offensive antisemitic weekly publication called "Der St�rmer"? Hint

Julius Streicher

Baldur von Schirach

Joseph Goebbels

Robert Ley

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. This legislation gave Hitler the power to create laws. It was one of the first steps towards achieving his 'Final Solution'.

Answer: Enabling Act

The first law Hitler passed using the Enabling Act was to remove nearly all Jewish people from the Civil Service (and the public sector more generally) in April, 1933.

2. The 'Reich Citizenship Law', or, 'The Law for the Protection of German Blood' reclassified Jews as second-class citizens. What name are these laws generally known by?

Answer: The Nuremberg Laws

This law established various categories of 'Jewishness': full Jews, half Jews and quarter Jews. It also strictly forbade marriage or sexual acts of any kind between Jews and non-Jews.

These laws were announced at the Party Rally in Nuremberg in September 1935: hence the name.

3. What is the 'Kristallnacht' usually called in English?

Answer: 'Night of the Broken Glass'

The 'Kristallnacht', or 'Night of the Broken Glass' occurred on the night of 9-10 November 1938. Jewish shops, businesses, some homes, and every single synagogue in Germany and Austria were smashed up or burned by the SA (Stormtroopers) acting orders from propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

4. In what year did the first concentration camp open?

Answer: 1933

The first permanent concentration camp was Dachau, near Munich, and opened March 22nd, 1933. It was to imprison 'Enemies of the Reich' (espeically Communists, Social Democrats and labour leaders).

5. Which European country had the largest Jewish population prior to World War II with 3.3 million, amounting to 10 percent of the population as a whole?

Answer: Poland

The German conquest of western and central Poland in September 1939 left Hitler with about 2 million additional Jews under his rule - greatly increased when eastern was added with the attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941. Some historians believe that this was a significant factor in the decision to to embark on the Holocaust. Solving the 'Jewish Question' by enforced emigration was no longer feasible.

6. In 1939 Reinhard Heydrich decided to concentrate the Polish Jews into small urban areas to make them easier to handle. What name was given (unofficially) to these forced Jewish communities?

Answer: Ghettos

In 1516, the city fathers of Venice Italy decreed that all of the city's Jews had to live on the island of Geto. Soon all Jewish quarters of cities were known as ghettos.

7. What were Jewish people ordered to wear in order to mark them out clearly from the rest of the population?

Answer: Star of David

The Nazis revived this notorious custom, which was first used in the Middle Ages. It was introduced in different countries at different times, beginning in occupied Poland in November 1939. (Some of the earliest Jewish badges were blue on white).

8. How were Jews usually moved to extermination camps (except over very short distances)?

Answer: In enclosed cattle trucks (box cars)

The cattle trucks were hauled by very slow freight trains and the journey from, say Paris to Auschwitz often took 72 hours plus. No food or water were provided and there was only one bucket per 50 people. Not surprisingly, quite a number did not survive the journey.

9. For a while in 1940 the Nazi leaders considered shipping the European Jews to this island and dumping them there. Which island was was it?

Answer: Madagascar

The plan was based on the assumption that Germany would win the war quickly and easily. It was never a realistic plan and was abandoned after a few months.

10. Which of these men edited a particularly offensive antisemitic weekly publication called "Der St�rmer"?

Answer: Julius Streicher

It appeared from 1923 till 1945. It was a senstional tabloid that revived the very worst inflammatory legends about the Jews, such as the blood libel. Much of the material was pornographic and it popularized newer stereotypes, such as Jews as Bolshevist conspirators.

It did its utmost to foster hatred at fever pitch. Streicher was convicted of crimes against humanity (incitement to commit genocide) by the Nuremberg Tribunal in 1946 and hanged.

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