questions

Q.1 Describe Ohrs journey east and what she experienced in the hospital

Ohr’s journey to the east was like endless as the horizon. It was tiresome because the train travelled slowly. The hospital in which Oh was send to was not in good condition it stank blood, pus and urine. Frostbitten soldiers were wailing in pain.

Q.2 how did Ohr refers to the soviet POWs and/or inhabitants?

Ohr refers to the soviet POWs as prisoners of war who were not to be granted any right.

Q.3 how did women deal with the stories of mass atrocities?

The women deal with the stories of mass atrocities by plotting the extermination of the jews.

Q.4 how did many women learn that the war was one of the annihilation of the jews? How did they respond?

The women learned that the Jews were their enemies and the annihilation of the Jews through the racial purification which led to extermination of the Jews. They made a life and death decisions eroding moral sensibilities.

Q.5 Why did the German nurses go to ghettos?

The nurses go to the ghettos to brutalize the Jews and to kill them by injecting them with poison. They delivered lethal injection to the patients so as to kill them.

Q.6 Describe the dates in the ghettos. How does the author explain the importance of the act of peering into ghettos?

The dates in the ghettos were the romantic outings to the Jewish ghettos. The act of peering into ghettos was more than the gestures of curiosity it was an act of voyeurism that affirmed German superiority.

Q.7 On page 85, how do the young women describe the Lodz ghetto?

The Lodz ghetto was unreal city of the Jews in the greasy Kaftans.

Q.8 Describe how mass murder marked the physical landscape of the Ukraine and the urban areas

Mass murder marked the physical landscape of the Ukraine and the urban areas by the way the population of the Jews were reduced and the presence of mass grave where the people were killed were buried.

Q.9 What is meant by the term desk murderer what was the percentage of women worked iin the Gestapo in the Vienna and Berlin? Why is that important?

Desk murder were women who helped their bosses in the killing of the Jews they killed people by giving written orders hence their pens were weapon for killing people.. The percentage of women working in the Gestapo was 40 %.women was expected to stand by men as well as fill their position to free them up for the front.

Q.10 Explain the role of the plunder in the East.

Plundering in the east involved acquiring goods from the Jews in the east. The Jews had valuable goods.

Q.11 Explain the holocaust role in the Meier and Hanweg relationship

Hanweg who was the secretary concubine gave Meir special access to the office safe where most of the secrets and orders were kept. This made it possible for Hanweg to issue an order of mass shooting of the Jews who appeared to work late.

Q. 12 explain the female rdumentors of the Einsatzgruppen

She helped type ,copy and officially certify the 143 pages report to be send to Berlin from the Einsatzgruppe a outspot in Riga.

Q.13 Describe Vera Wohlauf role in the Miedzyrzee massacre.

She played the role of whipping and humiliating the victims of the war in the market place. She placed the central role in the killings in the massacre.