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🔧 STRUCTURE CARDS (3)

Card 1 – Q1 Perspective (3 Marks)
Q: What’s the structure for a 3-mark question on perspective?
A:

1. Identify WHO holds the perspective (Nazi soldier, Jewish victim, etc.)

2. Clearly explain their POV

3. Link to source content – what beliefs or goals does it reflect?

Card 2 – Q2 Value of Sources (7 Marks)
Q: What’s the structure for evaluating the value of two sources?
A:
Paragraph 1: Content

• Topic sentence

• Source A: what's in it that helps answer the Q

• Source B: same deal
  Paragraph 2: Origin + Features

• Topic sentence

• Source A: when/who/how it helps

• Source B: same thing

Card 3 – Q3 Extended Response (10 Marks)
Q: What’s the scaffold for a 10-mark response using sources + knowledge?
A:
Intro:

• Thesis + Define Holocaust
  Para 1:

• Topic sentence (link Q)

• Explain

• Use sources

• Link back
  Para 2+: Repeat
  Conclusion: Reaffirm argument

💬 BONUS PHRASE CARD

Card 4 – Better ways to say “adds value”
Q: How can I say “adds value” in a cooler, more academic way?
A:

• “This provides insight into…”

• “This deepens our understanding of…”

• “This is useful because it shows…”

• “This highlights the attitudes of…”

• “This is significant in revealing…”

• “This evidence supports the idea that…”

• “Valuable as it reflects the perspective of…”

• “The detail strengthens the credibility of…”

• “Useful for understanding the broader context of…”

📚 CONTENT FLASHCARDS (20 total)

Card 5 – What was the Holocaust?
Q: Define the Holocaust
A: The systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime from 1933–1945, alongside other targeted groups.

Card 6 – Hitler’s Main Goals
Q: What were Hitler’s racial goals?
A: Create a master Aryan race, gain living space, and remove "inferior races" like Jews, based on twisted Social Darwinism.

Card 7 – Hitler’s Views on Jews
Q: How did Hitler view Jews?
A: As a race (not just religion), blamed them for WWI loss, capitalism, communism – portrayed them as a parasitic threat.

Card 8 – Nazi Rise to Power (1933)
Q: How did the Nazis rise to power?
A: Hitler made Chancellor in 1933, used Enabling Act to become dictator; used propaganda, fear, and crushed opposition.

Card 9 – Conditions that Enabled Nazi Rise
Q: What allowed the Nazis to gain power?
A: Treaty of Versailles, economic collapse, fear of communism, weak Weimar Republic – all made Nazis look like saviours.

Card 10 – Nuremberg Laws (1935)
Q: What were the Nuremberg Laws?
A: Stripped Jews of citizenship, banned marriage to non-Jews, excluded them from schools and civil jobs – legal base for genocide.

Card 11 – Kristallnacht (1938)
Q: What happened during Kristallnacht?
A: Nazis destroyed synagogues, homes, shops in a violent attack disguised as a citizen uprising – turning point to open violence.

Card 12 – Why Ghettos Were Created
Q: Why did Nazis create ghettos?
A: To isolate Jews, steal property, force labour, and let them die off ‘naturally’ – while preparing for extermination.

Card 13 – Ghetto Living Conditions
Q: What were ghetto conditions like?
A: Cramped, starving, unsanitary. E.g., Warsaw Ghetto had 400,000 Jews in 1.3 square miles. Disease and starvation were common.

Card 14 – Control Inside Ghettos
Q: How were ghettos controlled?
A: Nazis sealed off areas; Jewish Councils ran daily life under Nazi orders. Education banned. Smuggling food was deadly.

Card 15 – Largest Ghetto
Q: What was the largest ghetto?
A: Warsaw Ghetto – 400,000 people in tiny space. Overcrowding, disease, and death were constant.

Card 16 – Ghettoisation Timing
Q: When did ghettoisation occur?
A: Mainly 1939–1940 after the invasion of Eastern Europe.

Card 17 – Einsatzgruppen Purpose
Q: What was the Einsatzgruppen’s job?
A: Kill Jews and enemies behind enemy lines. Originally sent to stop resistance; later focused on mass shootings.

Card 18 – Einsatzgruppen Victims
Q: Who did they target?
A: Jews, Roma, priests, intellectuals, politicians – anyone seen as a threat or inferior.

Card 19 – Einsatzgruppen Method
Q: How did they kill?
A: Rounded up victims, forced them to dig graves, stripped them, shot them in pits. Burned evidence, used vague terms like “special treatment.”

Card 20 – Einsatzgruppen Collaborators
Q: Who helped them?
A: Wehrmacht, Romanians, and local collaborators – often neighbours who gave up Jewish friends and families.

Card 21 – Why Einsatzgruppen Was Effective
Q: Why was this method used?
A: Fast, needed no camps or gas – could follow the army and kill on the move.

Card 22 – Einsatzgruppen Impact
Q: What impact did they have?
A: 1.5–2 million Jews murdered. In Lithuania, 250k Jews in 1941 dropped to 40k by the end of the year.