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Night Background Information Sheet On a separate sheet of paper answer the following questions. Part 1) 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) Part 2) 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) Part 3) 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) Part 4) 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) Anti-Semitism in Germany When did the Jews migrate to Europe? Why did they not get along with the Europeans? Why did Martin Luther attack the Jews in his writings? What were his writings used for? Who was the first person to use the term anti-Semitism? What was his fear? What is social Darwinism? What was Gobineaus thesis? What was Houston Stewart Chamberlain s thesis? Explain the Stab-in-the-Back theory? Is this true? What were Hans Gunthers theories? What did Alfred Rosenberg do? Anti-Semitic Laws in Nazi Germany What was in the Nazis 25-point Party Program? What did the "Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service" do? What did the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 do? Who were considered Jews? What is "Aryanization"? What happened during the summer Olympics? Explain what happed during the Night of Broken Glass? Why did it happen? What did Jews have to do to their names? The Holocaust and Liberation What was the Holocaust? What does the word Holocaust mean? What other peoples, besides Jews, where targeted during the Holocaust? How did Nazis concentrate and monitor Jews? What were Einsatzgruppen ? What happened between 1941 and 1944? What were Death Marches? When did they end? What was the aftermath of the Holocaust? Auschwitz What was Auschwitz built for? What kind of medical experiments were done? List some examples. What is Zyklon B? Explain what happened to new arrivals at Auschwitz-Birkenau. What happened on October 7, 1944? What happened at Buna? What happened at the labour sub camps? What happened during the evacuation matches?