FAQs+Guidelines


 * The Holocaust**
 * by Mrs. Nobles**




 * What is the Holocaust FAQs assignment?**
 * What are the guidelines?**
 * How will my FAQs be evaluated?**
 * Can you show me an example of a wiki FAQs project?** (Here is last year's wiki so you can see more of them.)


 * Two helpful research links:**
 * [|The United Holocaust Memorial Museum]:** the starting place for all of your Internet research
 * [|Easy Bib]:** your best friend when it comes to making a Works Cited page!

- The years after the war: surrender, liberation of the camps - Suicide of Hitler (and others) - Did any prisoners escape and if so, how? - Hitler Youth - Hitler's strategic plans for the main battles of the war - Hitler's overall plan to take over Europe (how and why) - Germany's reaction to the atomic bombs - Art that came out of the war (Terezin) - Assassination (more than one) - How some people deny the Holocaust - Life in concentration camps (families, prisoners, guards) - Japan's view of the war (later years) - Mussolini - Eva Braun - Who doubted him and when? (innocent bystander) - Development of biological weapons - Storm troopers - Hitler's justification for his actions (esp religiously) - How did the Germans stay loyal to him?
 * Section 1:**

- Hitler got married (Eva Braun) - Hitler's other goals (art, architecture) - Goal to make the city of Linz very beautiful - Assassination attempts (more than one) - Did not start the Nazis - Childhood -- what made him who he became? (father, mother) -- and his education - How did the people outside the camps not know what was happening inside? (can there be innocent bystanders?) - When did people realize that Hitler was not good? (they thought he was) - Hitler's parents - Early years when it was not a war (taking countries by treaty) - How did he grow into power and start his major rule and success of taking over - What did the guards think at the camps? - Who he grew up with
 * Section 2 Ideas:**

- does not actually hate the people who hurt him - he hates to see children get teased and humiliated - believes that indifference is the path to evil -- the opposite of love is not hate but indifference - he is living a normal life now - he talks about it a lot (big ticket talks) - favorite commandment: Thou shalt not stand by idly - He was not angry after the Holocaust, was thankful for living and people - saw his own dad die - feels responsible about his dad dying - his only regret is not doing more -- being as involved as he can - Nobel Peace Prize
 * Elie Wiesel: S2**
 * - he has a son and he visited Auschwitz together**
 * - after the Holocaust, he reunited with 2 sisters (3 of 6 survived)**
 * - he did not want to survive --> survivors' feelings**
 * - his childhood**
 * - when he first got out and would not talk about it (publishing of //Night//)**
 * - his life after the Holocaust and how he is still alive**
 * - his life in the camp**

- decided to LIVE AGAIN - he wants to help people b/c no one helped him - hated most the oppression of children (humiliation of them) - not his place to forgive the people for what they did - a lot about his father (strong bond) - was mad at God, very religious, had to work this out - his worst part - not helping his father b/c he was afraid of what would happen to him - found two sisters again (3 of 6 lived) - people need to feel hate to feel superior -- indifference is worse than hate (opposite of love) - everybody has his place in the world
 * Elie Wiesel: S1**
 * - he has anger but not hate for his oppressors --> how could he feel this way??**
 * - the Holocaust did not prevent him from living a normal life**
 * - he has a son**
 * - does not want people to think of him just as a Holocaust survivor**
 * - his time in Auschwitz and how his life is now**
 * - how people are treated in the camps (different ages)**
 * - view of Jewish guards after the war**
 * - his life in camp**

- lesser known people who still helped people in need and what they did - the Warsaw ghetto and the city rebellion - People who were close to Hitler helped the Jews - the Warsaw hospital - Life in the ghettoes
 * S2:**