Use the ‘Schnellbrief' to answer the following THREE questions:
1. Determine the provenance of the source. (Hint: It's to do with the source author's background/beliefs etc and how these would have affected what is being presented in the source.)
10 Marks
This source was a list of instructions set out by Heydrich to somewhat direct ‘the final aim'. Heydrich was a very anti-semitic person, he was seen as one of the darkest Nazi officers at the time. He was put in charge of some of the key events in the Holocaust including the forming of the Einsatzgruppen and the act of Kristallnacht. His history and his title as ‘the man with the iron heart' would have made his role quite powerful, he was out to get back at the Jews and nothing was going to stop him. This source, "The Policy and Operations Concerning Jews in the Occupied Territories' is a set of instructions on how to best concentrate the Jewish population from the countryside to larger cities, the main aim was to clear the areas referred to of the Jews and to establish as few possible cities of their concentration. This source …show more content…
There had been previous protests in which the Rainbow Warrior had been a part of and it had arrived back for another. The protest it was involved in was a peaceful protest against the French Nuclear testing going on in the Moruroa Atoll. The crew had moored their boat and were preparing for bed when a sudden explosion left them in shock, at first they believed that they had been hit by something like a tugboat, but after a following second explosion they realised they were under attack and fled the boat. Only to realise once they were safe that they were missing one crew member, Portuguese born photographer Fernando Pereira. It was later discovered that he had drowned in the event, which meant that whoever had caused this to happen would ultimately be charged with the death of
1. Determine the provenance of the source. (Hint: It's to do with the source author's background/beliefs etc and how these would have affected what is being presented in the source.)
10 Marks
This source was a list of instructions set out by Heydrich to somewhat direct ‘the final aim'. Heydrich was a very anti-semitic person, he was seen as one of the darkest Nazi officers at the time. He was put in charge of some of the key events in the Holocaust including the forming of the Einsatzgruppen and the act of Kristallnacht. His history and his title as ‘the man with the iron heart' would have made his role quite powerful, he was out to get back at the Jews and nothing was going to stop him. This source, "The Policy and Operations Concerning Jews in the Occupied Territories' is a set of instructions on how to best concentrate the Jewish population from the countryside to larger cities, the main aim was to clear the areas referred to of the Jews and to establish as few possible cities of their concentration. This source …show more content…
There had been previous protests in which the Rainbow Warrior had been a part of and it had arrived back for another. The protest it was involved in was a peaceful protest against the French Nuclear testing going on in the Moruroa Atoll. The crew had moored their boat and were preparing for bed when a sudden explosion left them in shock, at first they believed that they had been hit by something like a tugboat, but after a following second explosion they realised they were under attack and fled the boat. Only to realise once they were safe that they were missing one crew member, Portuguese born photographer Fernando Pereira. It was later discovered that he had drowned in the event, which meant that whoever had caused this to happen would ultimately be charged with the death of