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Responding to the Holocaust Classwork

Directions: Answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1. What is the Holocaust? Who participated in it?

2. Why didn’t the Allied Powers try to stop the Holocaust?

3. How do you think you would feel if you were a soldier who discovered a concentration camp? How would you react?

4. What were the Nuremberg Trials? What was the result?

5. What is genocide?

6. What was the immediate effect of the Nuremberg Trials?

7. What was a long-term effect of the Trials?

8. Do you think it was appropriate to execute the organizers of the Holocaust? Why/why not? (Answer in at least 4 complete sentences)