Question

Read the following:

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE JEWS, AND I DID NOT SPEAK OUT BECAUSE I WAS NOT A JEW. THEN THEY CAME FOR THE COMMUNISTS, AND I DID NOT SPEAK OUT BECAUSE I WAS NOT A COMMUNIST. ...THEN THEY CAME FOR THE TRADE UNIONISTS, AND I DID NOT SPEAK OUT BECAUSE I WAS NOT A TRADE UNIONIST. THEN THEY CAME FOR ME AND THERE WAS NO ONE LEFT TO SPEAK FOR ME.
Select answers that led up to the atrocity this statement speaks of. Select all that apply.

(A) Jews are prohibited from all legal practices.

(B) Jewish students are banned from all non-Jewish German schools.

(C) Jews are forbidden from wearing any religious symbols.

(D) The ship "Struma" leaves Romania for Palestine. "Struma," carrying 769 Jews is denied permission by British authorities to allow the passengers to disembark at the Haifa docks or anywhere else on the Israeli shore.

(E) The first gassing victims include 5,000 gypsies who were deemed unnecessary to society.

Answer 1

The statement refers to the Holocaust, a result of progressively severe Nazi persecutions towards Jews and other marginalized groups. Choices (A), (B), and (E) correctly represent the actions that led up to these atrocities, illustrating the systematic exclusion and extermination of these communities.

Step-by-step explanation:

The statement, "First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew... Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me," refers to the gradual escalation of the Nazi persecution that led to the Holocaust. The correct answers that led to this atrocity are:

(A) Jews are prohibited from all legal practices.

(B) Jewish students are banned from all non-Jewish German schools.

(E) The first gassing victims include 5,000 gypsies who were deemed unnecessary to society.

These events were part of over 1400 anti-Jewish laws passed in Germany, which included bans from parks, restaurants, electrical equipment use, and severing their ability to work in government or to seek education in public schools. The consequences of these progressively restrictive laws culminated in the horrors of the Holocaust where millions, including German Jews and other marginalized groups, were systematically exterminated.

Answer 2

When the speaker says "first they came for the Jews", what he (the author of the words is a man) refers to is the regular persecution of Jews in Europe, which culmunated in the holocaust, this persecution included all of the following:

(A) Jews are prohibited from all legal practices. (first they prohibited the Jewish doctors from treating the non-Jewish pacients)
(B) Jewish students are banned from all non-Jewish German schools.

the following was false, as they were actually made to wear the Star of David, to identify them better
(C) Jews are forbidden from wearing any religious symbols.

This does not apply to the treatment of Jews by the Germans but to the general lack of support for the Jews, but it's still true:
(D) The ship "Struma" leaves Romania for Palestine. "Struma," carrying 769 Jews is denied permission by British authorities to allow the passengers to disembark at the Haifa docks or anywhere else on the Israeli shore.

This, as far as I know it not specifically true or not well-known who the first victims of gassing were, but it seems unlikely that they were not mostly Jewish or political prisoners. So, although it's possible, the following is not common knowledge:
(E) The first gassing victims include 5,000 gypsies who were deemed unnecessary to society.


the correct answer is: a, b and d