ABSTRACT

These are some sources we have already looked at in class as well as some
new ones. You will need to practice analysing sources for your extended
response exam on the 8/06/2017.

Miss Poulton
Year 10 Modern History

Sources for Exam Preparation

World War Two
Source 1 Source 3
1. It happened on November 9th. I had heard 2 or 3 days earlier that
2. von Rath had been shot and killed by a Jewish boy in Paris. I had no
3. idea what would happen later.
4. All the synagogues in Germany were destroyed. In our town, the
5. synagogue was not burned, because if it was burned it would have
6. burned down the entire block, and the Nazis did not want this.
7. However, no one stopped them from destroying the entire inside of
8. the synagogue. This changed my entire life, as this had been our
9. safe haven. In 1936, every Jewish ID card had to be stamped with
10. the letter J for Jude, meaning Jew. Now with Kristallnacht,
11. every Jewish male had to add the name Israel and every Jewish
12. female had to add the name Sarah. So, I became Werner Israel
13. Coppel. My entire social life stopped, and life changed direction
14. completely. I was eventually sent to Auschwitz in 1945.
Context: a Jewish ghetto in Munkacs where Jewish people were made to
Werner Coppel . Cincinnati Eyewitness Testimonies. Holocaust and
live in terrible conditions
Humanity.
Source 2
Context: Werner Coppel was a Jew in Germany at the time of Nazi
persecution. He was 13 years old at the time of Kristallnacht.

Source 4
1. During that time, there were the brown shirts and the black shirts.
2. The black shirts were the SS and the brown shirts were the SA. They
3. had a quota for the number of men they had to arrest. They sat in
4. front of the home of our rabbi, but for some reason he was not
5. arrested. My father was also not arrested, despite the fact that we
6. lived just across the courtyard from an SS soldier. Many others were
7. imprisoned and interned in the camps. My family decided it was
8. best if my father left Germany. In June, 1939, all his papers were in
9. order, and he left for England in September of 1939.
Hugo Eichelberg . Cincinnati Eyewitness Testimonies. Holocaust and Humanity.
Context: Hugo Eichelberg was a Jew in Germany at the time of Nazi persecution.
Context: A Jewish family (represented by the star on the mother and father
and the child being younger than 6).
Source 5 Source 7
1. I was living in Hamburg at the time. I was a student at an advanced
2. preparatory school next to our synagogue. I remember we could
3. look out the windows of the school and see the synagogue. The
4. morning after Kristallnacht, I remember we looked out the windows
5. and we could see just strands of glass where the windows of the
6. synagogue had been destroyed. The entire inside of the synagogue
7. had been burnt out. Our teacher got there in the morning and then
8. let us out early due to what had happened. He went home to offer
9. his prayers.
Hugo Eichelberg . Cincinnati Eyewitness Testimonies. Holocaust and
Humanity.
Context: Hugo Eichelberg was a Jew in Germany at the time of Nazi
persecution.

Source 6 Context: A photo taken in 1938 of a burning synagogue (Jewish church)

from Kristallnacht.

Context: A photo taken in 1938 of shop fronts with smashed windows from
Kristallnacht.
Source 8 Source 9

1. Hugh Baillie after his interview with Hitler talking about the
Nuremberg Laws:
2. "One of the principle reasons for the legislation in Germany is the
necessity
3. to combat [communism]. This legislation is not anti-Jewish, but pro-
4. German. The rights of Germans are thereby to be protected against
5. destructive Jewish influences He stressed [that these legislative
6. measures] served to protect the Jew, and this was proved by the fact
that
7. since the passing of the restrictive measures anti-Jewish sentiment in
the
8. country decreased.

Baynes, N.H. (1942). The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, Oxford University Press.

Context: an image from 1943 of Jewish people being forcibly removed Context: Baillie was the president of United Press (an American News
Company) between 1935 and 1955. He interviewed top European leaders
from where they were staying.
in the lead up to World War Two, including Hitler and Mussolini.