The Barbarity Of War Essay

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The Barbarity of War Holocaust Document Study Memorandum by the Gauleiter of Styria (Austria) regarding the solution of the “Gypsy
Question”, submitted 1939, Berlin 1. Fill in the following organizer based on this document. Solution to the Gypsy Problem What the author thinks of the solution Reasons for this position given by the author

A solution for the gypsies is to strip away all their culture and make them like the germans. The author thinks that it would be best to destroy all the gypsies.

This is because, the gypsies would pollute the blood of the germans and the purity would be lost.

the second solution for the gypsies was trying to settle them all in one place.

The author thinks that the
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Summarize the oath required of German officers working at Auschwitz.
The oath the GErman officers required was:
­Not to give any Jews information
­Evacuate Jews under the Secret Reich Document
­Follow the SS and all they say
­No pictures in camps of Einsatz Reinhard

­Follow all the rules 12. What does this say about what the German government thought about what they were doing? Explain.
The German government was looking at Jews and trying to get information out of them without giving them any. 13. What did Himmler order and what were the exceptions?
He ordered that no persons or Jewish origin may remain within the government general unless they are in collection camps. Otherwise they must leave their jobs. 14. What was the purpose of his orders?
To get rid of the Jews in the inner circle where the decisions were being made. They were also eliminating the threat of opposition.
15. How did the Nazi’s comfort Jews at Treblinka?
They made .hem think that they would help them if they were sick or disabled when in fact they would hurt them.
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How was language used to confuse or mislead prisoners?
It was used to mislead prisoners by not allowing them to understand what they were saying. 17. What were some of the jobs prisoners did at the concentration camps?
Prisoners did hard labour or anything else the soldiers didn’t want to do. They would also send them to work in factories and use