The Holocaust
Name: _________________________ Period _______ Date _______
Directions: Read pages 640-642 in your textbook. Locate the information found
within to answer the questions below. Use complete sentences in your response.
1. Identify and describe the racial struggle that, in the mind of Hitler, existed within the
Nazi New Order.
2. What was the “Final Solution to the Jewish problem”?
3. Identify and describe the Einsatzgruppen. What was their primary responsibility in
Poland? In the USSR?
4. Summarize the extermination camps built by the Nazis.
5. What was the largest and most infamous extermination camp?
6. Evaluate the effectiveness & thoroughness of the Final Solution. In other words, what
effect did it have on the Jewish population of Europe?
7. In addition to the Jewish population, what other “inferior” peoples suffered at the hand of
the Nazis? (Identify and describe three)
8. Define the term Holocaust:
9. Identify and describe three reasons why little was done to stop the Holocaust.