Watch the first 6 minutes twice. First without subtitles, Second time with subtitles if you want (but be careful, the subtitles are provided automatically and there are lots of mistakes). Then, answer the following questions:
1. Who did they
interview for the documentary?
2. What was the name of
the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews?
3. When was Auschwitz
transformed into a concentration camp?
4. What was the original
use for the buildings at Auschwitz?
5. Who were the first
people interred at the camp?
6. What was the motto on
the gates? Where was it from?
KEY
1. Who did they interview for the documentary?
(They interviewed former members of the SS and the people who were there, that is, survivors.)
2. What was the name of the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews?
(It was called "The Final Solution.")
3. When was Auschwitz transformed into a concentration camp?
(It became a concentration camp in April 1940.)
4. What was the original use for the buildings at Auschwitz?
(The buildings were originally Polish Army barracks.)
5. Who were the first people interred at the camp?
(They were political prisoners, because the Jews were still confined to ghettos.)
6. What was the motto on the gates? Where was it from?
(The motto was "Arbeit Macht Frei," originally from the camp at Dachau, Germany.
