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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.