You have been tasked with creating a newspaper article describing the holocaust, its background, and its victims to your readers.  This website will guide you through your travels to locations, museums, and resources that will provide you with the details necessary to write your article.

1. Describe the political climate of Germany at this time.
2. How were Jews being treated?
3. What evidence do you see in the pictures of this treatment?
4. Choose two descriptive pictures and describe them in moderate detail.

Germany was soon to invade the Soviet Union.  The Einsatzgruppen led the Holocaust in these areas, killing many.

8. According to the map, where did the Einsatzgruppen operate?
9. How did they function?
10. What does Einsatzgruppen mean?
11. What was done with the dead?
12. Who's help did the Einsatzgruppen depend on?

Germany's final solution was enacted as the number of prisoners bulged.  Jews, Romas, and others were brought from concentration camps and ghettos to death camps.

22. What does the term "final solution" refer to?
23. What parts of the government were involved in the decision and implementation?
24. How were Jews and others shipped to killing centers?
25. What were conditions on the trip like?
26. How did Germany disguise this deportation?

Krystallnacht marked a new increase in violence towards German Jews. 

5. What was Krystallnacht?
6. Why did Krystallnacht occur?
7. What did it lead to?

In German held territories, such as Poland, Jews and other undesirables were being collected and interned in Ghettos. In Germany, euthanasia of the sick and injured had begun, and the internment of undesired races in concentration camps.

13. What was the function of camps such as Auschwitz?
14. How large was Auschwitz?
15. How were the prisoners transported to concentration camps?
16. What happened to the prisoners as allied troops advanced towards Germany?
17. Describe the conditions in the ghettos of Germany.
18. How did the guards treat the Jews in the ghettos?
19. What was the primary purpose of the concentration camps?
20. What were conditions like in concentration camps?
21. How did the ghettos differ from the concentration camps?

The BIG assignment:

Write a newspaper article about the Holocaust to be read by a person who knows nothing about it.  This assignment will count as 50% of your webquest grade.

Be sure to include the following topics:

• The background to the holocaust in Germany
• Krystallnacht
• The Einsatzgruppen
• Ghettos and Concentration Camps
• The Final Solution