The last quiz will be on Tuesday, Dec. 10th. There are no make-ups.
The questions will be drawn from the following list.
CHAPTER 5
1. What were the Einsatzgruppen, and how did they operate? 127
3. What kinds of background did the leaders of the Einsatzgruppen have? 128-9
8. What was the purpose of creating ghettos? 132-33
11. Why was it necessary to distinguish "state-sponsored murder" from "private murder"? 136
14. Why was starvation an ideal method of extermination? How was it practiced by the Nazis? 144
CHAPTER 6
2. How did the use of work permits implicate the Jews in the process of their own destruction? 159-60 What was the role of the Jewish Councils in this process?
4. What had been the history of the Jewish community's response to the Nazis? What were the five types of reactions Jews could use to respond to the Nazis? Which were most common? 162-3
8.
What was the Judenrat and how did it function in the ghetto?
What
were its strategies in dealing with the Nazis? 164-73 What was their view
of armed resistance? What other kinds of resistance are there? 169
10. What forces contributed to the decision to violently resist the Nazis or not? 170 Why were traditional Jewish tactics of "alleviation" and "compliance" ineffective against the Nazis? 171 Why did many Jewish councils oppose armed resistance? 172
12. How effective was armed resistance as a response to the Nazis? 173-178 What value did it have, even when there was no hope of success?
15. What kind of psychological changes took place in those sent to labor and death camps? What factors contributed to survival? 185-88
CHAPTER 7
2. What was the response of most German Christians to the Nazis? Why do the authors say that "apostasy was rife" among baptised Christians" during the Nazi period? 200-201
3. What were the attitudes of German church leaders toward German nationalism and Nazi antisemitism in the 1920-30s? [201-203]
5. How did German Christians reconcile antisemitism with their Christian values? [207-8]
8. Why factors made protest against the Holocaust by the Pope highly unlikely? 212 What aid did the Catholic Church offer to Jews under Nazi control? How much information did the Vatican have about the extermination of Jews? 213-14
12. In what ways were the responses of Christians in Denmark and Bulgaria different from other those of Christians in other countries under Nazi domination? What made the situation of the Jews different in these places? 218-219
16. What was unique about the behavior of the villagers of Le Chambon? How did their religion contribute to their decisions to aid Jews? 225-227
Chapter 8
1. Are professional elites in society, like doctors, lawyers, scientists, and educators a useful check on excesses of government, such as the Nazi's plan of genocide? [231-232]
2. How was medical research, by doctors such as Mengele, corrupted by the Nazi program? [232-233] Why did other German doctors offer so little objection to the Nazi program? [234-235]
6. How did German businesses respond to their uses of slave labor after the war? To what extent did they regret or justify their wartime behavior? [247-248]
Chapter 10
2. Why do the authors feel that the Holocaust calls the existence of God into question? [291]
5. What religious explanations for the Holocaust are generally rejected by religious survivors? 295 What are the most common opinions about God's involvement in the Holocaust? 296
10. How does Rubinstein respond to the traditional religious ideas about the God of the Bible their implications for explaining the Holocaust? 311-312 What alternative views of God does he offer? 313-316
12. What are the future prospects for traditional Jewish religious belief in the Biblical God of covenant and election? 334-336