Pick TWO of these questions and answer 250 words each, 500 total for both quesetions.
1.What do you see as the single most important event or development in these years in relation to the Holocaust? How and why was this possible? How did it pave the way for the Holocaust?
2.How did the Nazification of German society progress in these years? Describe the conditions and events that led to and enabled the rise of the Nazi empire in Europe. How did these processes, conditions, and events lead to the Holocaust during the war years?
3. How did the Nazi regime consolidate power in its first year? What warning signs for genocide may have been present? Why did Germany target a minority that was such a small part of its population?
4. Hitler gained the support of the German people through propaganda and by exploiting their poor economic conditions. What implications does this have for world leaders today?
5. How did Hitler and the Nazis use preconditions to shape Germany politically and socially? How did the Nazis conduct the war and the events leading to the Holocaust during these years? In other words, what laws did they pass and how did these laws reflect their ideologies regarding race and space – and the Holocaust?
6. Was there any connection between eugenics, Social Darwinism, and Nazi ideology?
