Final Solution plan exercises

The project of total extermination of the Jews of Europe, devised by Heydrich and Himmler, was widely discussed by the Nazi leadership. This summit even considered the deportation of all Jews to a certain location, however, this plan was abandoned due to the difficulties of logistical execution. What would that place be?

a) China

b) Greenland

c) Argentina

d) Madagascar

e) Iraq

The Nazis used the gas chamber in the war for the first time against Soviet prisoners who were killed in adapted train cars. The death of these prisoners was due to poisoning by:

a) Carbon Dioxide

b) Carbon Monoxide

c) Carbonic acid

d) Carboxylic acid

e) Zyklon B

As soon as the project to exterminate Europe's Jews was approved by Hitler, Himmler suggested that the killings be carried out by shooting. For this, a special troop that became known as “extermination groups” was employed. These groups acted basically in Eastern Europe, in the zones that belonged to the Soviet Union and that had been occupied by the Nazis during the war. What groups are we referring to?

a) Einsatzgruppen

b) Gestapo

c) NKVD

d) Luftwaffe

e) Kriegsmarine

One ​​of the most emblematic cases of the horrors of the Holocaust during the war was a massacre in an Eastern European city, in which the Nazis were responsible for the death of approximately 33 thousand Jews, in more or less 36 hours. This event became known as the Babi Yar Massacre and took place in the city of:

a) Vilnius

b) Warsaw

c) Minsk

d) Leningrad

e) Kiev

Letter D

In 1940, Nazi official Franz Rademacher proposed the deportation of Jews from Europe to Madagascar. This plan would be implemented after Germany obtained this African island (then a French colony) as part of the French surrender terms during the war. The plan regarding Madagascar was abandoned due to logistical difficulties:England had a superior navy and this would prevent the deportation of Jews to this African island.

Letter B

The use of the gas chamber was an alternative thought up by the Nazis to replace the performance of the Einsatzgruppen . The psychological exhaustion of the troops of the extermination groups led the Nazis to develop more efficient and impersonal forms of execution. The first tests were carried out with Soviet prisoners in retrofitted train cars. In these tests, they were killed as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning. This gas was also used by the Nazis to execute the mentally ill imprisoned in concentration camps in Germany.

Letter A

The Einsatzgruppen was a special force created by the Nazis during the annexation of Austria in 1938, and then used in 1939 in the persecution of the intelligentsia Polish and eventually led by Heydrich to promote the execution of Jews. This troop acted on the entire eastern front that was occupied by the Nazis and directly contributed to the deaths of thousands – perhaps millions – of Jews. The death squads promoted the persecution of all Jews in the places where they acted and provoked the mass shooting of these people, depositing their bodies in mass graves.

Letter E

The Babi Yar Massacre took place in the city of Kiev in September 1941. This genocidal act was a reprisal of the Nazis after two bombs planted by the Soviet secret police destroyed buildings occupied by the Germans. The Nazis then summoned all Kievan Jews to assemble at a specific time and place and began a massive shooting. Over the course of 36 hours, 33,761 Jews were killed and buried in mass graves.