due in 8 hrs.

Following the names of each country, I listed key historical figures and terms, as appropriate.

Finland

1. What background information is required?

2. What was the county’s record on anti-Semitism?

3. What was the country’s record in the Holocaust?

4. How did Jews survive?

Answer the four questions from the Audio lecture I gave:

historical terms: the “Winter War” (Nov. 1939-June 1940), parallel war,

historical figures: Prime Minister Johann Wilhelm Rangell; Chief of the Finnish State Police Arno Anthoni

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Sweden

1. What background information is required?

2. What was the county’s record on anti-Semitism?

3. What was the country’s record in the Holocaust?

4. How did Jews survive?

Answer the four questions from the Audio lecture I gave:

historical terms: a neutral country, Swedish Red Cross. Ravensbrueck Concentration Camp

historical figures: Raoul Wallenberg

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Norway

1. What background information is required?

2. What was the county’s record on anti-Semitism?

3. What was the country’s record in the Holocaust?

4. How did Jews survive?

Answer the four questions from the Audio lecture I gave:

historical terms: government-in-exile

historical figures: King Haakon VII, Vidkun Quisling

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Denmark

1. What background information is required?

2. What was the county’s record on anti-Semitism?

3. What was the country’s record in the Holocaust?

4. How did Jews survive?

Answer the four questions from the Audio lecture I gave:

historical terms: SS Race and Resettlement Office, Theresienstadt

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Italy

1. What background information is required?

2. What was the county’s record on anti-Semitism?

3. What was the country’s record in the Holocaust?

4. How did Jews survive?

Answer the four questions from the Audio lecture I gave:

historical terms: Wehrmacht (German army), co-belligerent, the Republic of Salò, Racial Laws (1938)

“Führer” = “duce” = leader

historical figures: Benito Mussolini

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The Vatican (the seat of the Roman Catholic Church worldwide)

1. What background information is required?

2. What was the county’s record on anti-Semitism?

3. What was the country’s record in the Holocaust?

4. How did Jews survive?

Answer the four questions from the Audio lecture I gave:

historical terms: Buenos Aires (Argentina), Lateran Accords (1929), concordat, encyclical, ghetto, Venice (adj. Venetian), heretical, ghetto, the Reichskonkordat (Concordat between Germany and the Vatican – 1933), encyclical, Mit Brennender Sorge (1937), Kristallnacht (1938)

historical figures: Jorge Bergoglio (now, Pope Francis), Pius XI (1922-1939), Pius XII (1939-1958)

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The United States of America

1. What background information is required?

2. What was the county’s record on anti-Semitism?

3. What was the country’s record in the Holocaust?

4. How did Jews survive?

Answer the four questions from the Audio lecture I gave:

historical terms: the “St. Louis” (May 1939), Bermuda Conference (April 1943)

Note: please do not try to answer these questions from another sources. You must get the answer from the audio lecture that you will find it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro8gNY9vIW4&feature=youtu.be