Camps Discussion Questions

• What methods did Nazis use to dehumanize their victims? Look specifically into laws and propaganda against certain groups.

• Describe the conditions of the concentration camps including how people were processed into the camp system. Use text from survivor memoirs.

• What was the purpose of Theresienstadt that set it apart from other camps?

• Define the concept of genocide. Discuss examples of genocide over the history of mankind to the present. Choose one main genocide and discuss.

• Why were children also killed?

• Compare and contrast the operation and conditions of the concentration camps and the death camps.

• What evidence of crimes against humanity did Allied forces discover when they first entered the concentration camps?

• Compare and contrast a writing of Primo Levi to Elie Wiesel and examine how the two men view life and their experiences during the Holocaust.

• Choose one concentration or death camp from the "Teacher Guide" text on "Camps" and create a multimedia presentation on it for your classmates.

• Research and discuss the concentration camp hierarchy.

• What experiments were performed on prisoners of death camps?

• Who were Kapos? Were they perpetrators of Nazi crimes, victims, both? Explain.