How much do you know about The Holocaust? | Quiz

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.