AP HUMA 1825A

Study Questions: Arendt part 1: Antisemitism and Nazism

1. What factors does Arendt identify that led to the Holocaust ("final solution")? Key ideas: discrimination against Jews in law, Nuremburg laws, Kristallnacht. See chapters III, V, IX:7.

2. What was Eichmann's place and job in the Nazi bureaucracy? Key ideas: his responsibility for "Jewish Affairs", the formation of the RSHA, Eichmann's job in Vienna. See chapter V.

3. What were the Nisko and Madagascar plans, and why, in Arendt's view, should Eichmann have known that they were ruses? See chapter V.