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Dachau Presentation

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class
Date
1.

You’ve arrived in Dachau, and it’s still the early hours of the morning. You're in line with your mess tin, when someone taps your shoulder and asks to borrow your mess tin, promising to share the food with you. Do you:

a)

Keep the mess tin for yourself.

b)

Share.

2.

It’s only your first day and you're exhausted. Your energy has already been drained from this morning, and you were silent to dig tunnels with your hands today while moving heavy rocks out of your way, you see something pale out of the corner of your eye. It’s somebody’s fallen bread that they tried to ration, but you see the kapos and SS officers' eyes all around you, knowing stopping could mean getting beat or even death. Do you-

a)

Pick up the bread and risk being caught.

b)

Keep working.

3.

You have no idea how you're going to make it through this. who knows how long you’ll be here! At least It’s finally dinner! As you wait in line for dinner, your legs growing forever week, a kapo walks over to you. The kapo walks over and grabs your mess tin, a punishment. He drops it and steps on it. You don’t know what to do. Do you:

a)

Go without a meal that night.

b)

Steal another prisoner's mess tin for breakfast tomorrow.

4.

That next evening as you sit down with your soup. When you look at the man next tp you, he looks back at you with terrified eyes. His mess tin is empty, and he looks at yours, full of food. He snatches it, and eats it all before you can even fully react. The kapos are watching to see what you do next. Do you-

a)

Try to take it back from him.

b)

Stay put.

5.

As the later hours of the day come, you realize why he stole your food. There is a death march happening that day, and this was lightly expected because you overheard the SS talking about it the other night. Halfway through the march, you see a field with trees to your left. Could this be your escape? The end to this nightmare you’ve been living? What do you do?

a)

Attempt to escape.

b)

Stay in line.

6.

 

How many prisoners did Dachau hold up during the last months of war?

a)

10,000

b)

1,557,839

c)

67,665

d)

75,583

7.

What did prisoners suffer from? (In our presentation, not in general)

a)

Malnutrition

b)

Flu

c)

Hypothermia

8.

How much hours did the prisoners have to work?

a)

10

b)

12-14

c)

15

d)

19

9.

Who are Kapos?

a)

The SS

b)

Prisoners

c)

Prisoners chosen by the SS

10.

When was Dachau built?

a)

March 22nd, 1933

b)

July 14, 1933

c)

January 30, 1933