DAVID OLÈRE, FRENCH JEWISH PAINTER, WHO SPENT MORE THAN TWO YEARS (MARCH 1943 TO MAY 1945) AS AN INMATE IN AUSCHWITZ AND OTHER NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS, THE FOOD OF THE DEAD FOR THE LIVING, PAINTED CIRCA 1950 100144 The painting shows the author, who was forced to work in a unit of inmates responsible for disposing of the bodies of those killed in Auschwitz, rummaging through the food left behind by the dead. To the left of the author, smoke emanates from a Chimney in a crematorium that connects to a gas chamber. 10614
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The implementation of the policies of extermination shown in the image is most directly explained by which of the following aspects of Nazi ideology?
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The idea that Germans descended from a master "Aryan" race |
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The idea that some minority populations could eventually be Germanized |
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The idea that minority populations within Germany were somehow responsible for its defeat during the First World War |
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The idea that Germany needed to expand its postwar borders in order to provide "living space" for its people |
The image can best help explain which of the following differences between the Nazi program of genocide and other acts of genocide in the early twentieth century?
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The Nazis persecuted specific ethnic and religious groups because they viewed them as threats to the state. |
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The Nazis industrialized the killing process, allowing them to commit murder on a massive scale. |
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The Nazis attempted to conceal their atrocities from the larger international community. |
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The Nazis committed their crimes during the course of a major international conflict.
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Which of the following most directly explains the Nazis' ability to carry out the policies of extermination shown in the image?
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Jews in many regions of Europe had been restricted to certain occupations and had to live in ghettos until the nineteenth century. |
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Many European Jews emigrated to Palestine after the First World War following the establishment of a Jewish homeland in the region. |
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Local populations collaborated with the regime either out of racial prejudice, fear, or hopes for material gain. |
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Nazi officials used propaganda to convince local populations that German occupation would benefit and liberate them. |
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