THE HOLOCAUST
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Directions: Answer each of the following questions in comprehensive, well-constructed essays. Remember, these are essay questions; they are not short answer questions, and they are not term papers. You should neither ignore parts of the question nor digress from them. Just write direct, succinct answers.
1. Explain the causes of prejudice as it has been presented to you in my lecture and in your readings. Be certain to give examples of each cause you discuss.
2. In the film series Heritage: Civilization and the Jews, Abba Eban discusses the many different ways Jews attempted to deal with centuries of exile, discrimination, and persecution. Discuss these ways.
3. How and why did the anti-Semitism of the time before the French Revolution differ from the anti-Semitism that emerged after the French Revolution? Be certain to make reference to specific writings.
4. Explain in detail the racial theory of Adolf Hitler as he presents it in Chapter 11 of Mein Kampf, “Volk und Rasse” (“People and Race.”)
5. The Nazis came to power in Germany in January of 1933 by perfectly legal, constitutional means; by the summer of 1934 they had transformed Germany’s democratic republic into a totalitarian dictatorship. How did Hitler and his followers effect this transformation?
