Very Short Question and Answers - Nazism and the Rise of Hitler

Germany surrendered to the Allies.

Hitler's propaganda minister, Goebbels, and their families.

6 million Jews.

These refer to acts committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against any civilian population.

It contributed to the rise of Nazi Germany due to resentment over the Treaty of Versailles.

He feared his mother might poison him.

They used gassing as an unprecedented method of killing.

He feared that the Allies would take revenge on them for their actions during the war.

To prosecute Nazi war criminals for their crimes during the war.

A structure of ideas about the world and politics, not just a series of isolated acts.

200,000 Gypsies.

1 million Polish civilians.

They devised killing centers for mass murders.

He was a prominent physician.

The UK and France.

They were sentenced to death.

A genocidal war resulting in mass murder of selected groups of innocent civilians.

The moral implications of the conduct of Nazi Germany during the war.

The punishment was far less than the scale of their crimes.

They established the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.