Nazi Germany
Choose one of the following questions below, you may choose which question you find most comfortable giving the best answer to.
Include between 5-10 sources (can be primary or secondary) and footnote them. Note that the footnotes are included in the word count.
1. What kind of violence (e.g. physical, economical juridical) against Jews can you identify during the time period between 1933 and 1939, and how did German authorities and German individuals try to justify these policies between 1933 and 1939?
2. What were the problems German Jews had to confront when they wanted to emigrate from Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1939?
3. As a famous historian has once remarked: the road to Auschwitz was twisted. Analyse this road. Who (pressure groups, organisations, individuals, etc) was involved in the decision-making process between 1940 and 1942 which led to the “final solution”.?
What were their arguments and wat were their political and ideological aims?
4. Analyse Jewish resistance in Nazi occupied Western Europe between 1939 and 1945.
5. How did German perpetrators try to justify their behavior before court- after 1945?
