Social Studies (Working From Home) Mapping Skills

 In Social Studies, our teacher tested our mapping skills and the knowledge we had learnt and used it in an activity where we had to map. 

The map includes F.A.C.K.T.S, it is an abbreviation of Frame, Axis, Colours, Keys, Title and Scale. 

Information:

The term “Final Solution” was first used in the records of the Wannsee Conference.  It has come to mean the systematic, large-scale killing of Jews and other “undesirables” in specially-created extermination camps (as opposed to “concentration camps” which were initially detention camps for the Nazis’ political enemies).

These camps were operated by units of the German Schutzstaffel (SS) – specially selected men who were considered hard enough to be able to do whatever was required.

What happened in the extermination camps? 

• Jews would be rounded up from an area in Europe and transported by train to a camp. 
• On arrival, they would undergo a selection – those who would be “useful” and those who were not.
• Those who were “useful” were kept as slave labourers working for the German war effort.
• Those who were not useful were herded into what they had been told were shower rooms, but were in effect sealed gas chambers.
• Poison gas would be released into the chamber. When all were dead, their bodies would be taken to crematoria to be burned.
• The goods that the deported Jews took with them were sorted and valuables were kept by the Nazis.