Even more so than World War I, known as “The Great War” to its contemporaries, World War II was truly a global conflict, involving peoples from every continent on Earth in one way or another. Inevitably, civilians were significantly affected by the effects of wartime life. Some groups were affected more than others, however, because Hitler and the Nazis specifically targeted specific categories of people for internment and/or extermination. How do you think it came to be that the vast majority of people in German-controlled lands remained passive as the Nazis ramped up their persecution from ghettoization, to internment in concentration camps, to implementing the Final Solution? Do you think they should have spoken up? Why? Do you think you would speak up if you noticed a steadily increasing hostility toward a minority group? How would you react and what would you do?