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History · The Modern World · ages 15-16
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. About how many Jewish people were murdered?

    • Six thousand
    • Sixty thousand
    • Six million

  2. Which order best describes the path to mass murder?

    • Killing centres first, then laws much later
    • Laws and propaganda, exclusion, ghettos, then killing centres
    • Ghettos first, then propaganda inventing the laws

  3. Besides Jews, whom did the regime target?

    • Only foreign soldiers in uniform
    • Roma, disabled people, and political opponents
    • Only wealthy merchants of any background

  4. A historian pairs a transport order with a survivor's diary entry about the same train. What is she doing?

    • Ignoring one kind of evidence entirely
    • Weighing both kinds of evidence together
    • Proving diaries are always unreliable

  5. Why does so much evidence survive?

    • The killing was run by a state with paperwork, trains, and guards
    • No records were kept, so rumours filled the gap
    • Only one diary survived by pure luck

  6. Which example shows resistance or rescue?

    • Hiding a Jewish family at mortal risk
    • Printing harsher propaganda posters
    • Drawing up deportation timetables

  7. Because neighbours sometimes hid families at mortal risk, individuals had no real choice under the regime.

    Circle one:   True   False

  8. A classmate says it all erupted suddenly, so nobody could have seen it coming. What is wrong?

    • It was built step by step, and early steps were visible
    • No laws were passed before the killing
    • Propaganda played no part at all
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  1. Six million · The state organised the murder of six million Jews.
  2. Laws and propaganda, exclusion, ghettos, then killing centres · Each step stripped protection away, making the next step easier.
  3. Roma, disabled people, and political opponents · The state classed several groups as enemies and persecuted them too.
  4. Weighing both kinds of evidence together · Camp records plus spoken memory check each other, which is how the picture firms up.
  5. The killing was run by a state with paperwork, trains, and guards · An organised state leaves lists, orders, and photos behind it.
  6. Hiding a Jewish family at mortal risk · Hiding neighbours, ghetto uprisings, and partisan fighting all show choice was possible.
  7. False · Rescue and resistance prove choice survived even under terror.
  8. It was built step by step, and early steps were visible · Laws, boycotts, and ghettos each signalled the next move before murder began.
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