Holocaust Quiz

Base your answer to the question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.

The German people were never more pitiable than when they stood by and watched this thing done. For the raiders who were let loose on the streets and given a day to sate [indulge] the lowest instincts of cruelty and revenge were indeed an enemy army. No foreign invader could have done more harm. This is Germany in the hour of her greatest defeat, the best overcome by the worst. While many protested at the outrages, and millions must have been sickened and shamed by the crimes committed in their name, many others looked on stolidly or approvingly while the hunters hunted and the wreckers worked. There are stories of mothers who took their children to see the fun… 

— New York Times, November 12, 1938

This 1938 passage criticizes those German people who did not

Base your answer to the question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.

… War criminals and those who have participated in planning or carrying out Nazi enterprises involving or resulting in atrocities or war crimes shall be arrested and brought to judgment. Nazi leaders, influential Nazi supporters and high officials of Nazi organizations and institutions and any other persons dangerous to the occupation or its objectives shall be arrested and interned.…

— Protocol of the Proceedings, Potsdam Conference, August 1945

This agreement made at the Potsdam Conference led directly to the