Who Is Responsible?

DUE DAY FIFTEEN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE HOUR

Directions: You will be determining who was responsible for creating the Holocaust and to what extent they are guilty of crimes against humanity. Create a circle graph in which you assign the person(s) listed the percentage of responsibility you believe they should bear for the Holocaust. Remember, all percentages must add up to 100%.

 Use the colors listed for each section of your graph. After you have made the designations of responsibility for each person(s), you must also provide a written explanation as to why you assigned that amount. (Don’t give me responses such as, "That’s just the way it adds up to 100%. This will not earn you credit.)

 RED: Residents of Auschwitz and other towns near concentration camps who knew about the camps but did nothing to stop them.

 BLUE: Minor Nazi soldiers who carried out the mass extermination orders without questioning their superiors.

 GREEN: Hitler, the leader of the German nation who hated Jews and wanted them destroyed.

 YELLOW: German citizens who voted for Hitler and the Nazi Party to revitalize their morally and economically depressed country.

 ORANGE: The Jews who did not try to escape.

 PURPLE: Top SS officers who designed and executed the "final solution" for Hitler.

 BROWN: Non-Jewish Europeans who turned against their Jewish friends and fellow citizens for fear that they too would be imprisoned as Jewish sympathizers.

 WHITE: Leaders of the Allied countries who saw evidence of the Holocaust but refused to get involved or voice opposition to Hitler's plan of extermination.

 PINK: Churches of all denominations who remained silent and refused to intervene when confronted with evidence of the Holocaust.

 BLACK: Yahweh, the God of the Jewish faith, who seemed absent and silent during this destruction of His chosen people.