Trials Fact Sheet

 

 

The following information should be included on your fact sheet:

 

 

1. Trial Name:  Crown  vs. Adolf Hitler

 

2. Trial Date: Wednesday June 13th 2007

 

3. a)Your Name:  Diana Hatzis

 

b) Prosecution Lawyers:  Alison B, Brendon, Diana

 

c) Defense Lawyers:  Jessie, Rebecca, Stacey

 

4. Your Opening Statement

- His hatred towards Jews

- Thoughts and feelings were towards Jews

- Strong powerful man whome everyone followed

- Chancellor of Germany

- Murdering over 19million innocent lives

- Jews, Gypsies, german handicapped, homosexuals and political opponents

 

 

5. Your Charge

- Hitler initiated the Holocaust

 

 

 

6. Arguments / Evidence proving the charge:

- I will use quotes to help me proove my argument of his hatred towards Jews and his love for war and violance

- Concentration camps (pictures)

- Death statistics

- Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

- Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

- The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

- The victor will never be asked if he told the truth

 

 

 

 

7. a) Your Witness:  Jan Karski    (character’s name) played by
Tabitha Burns
  (student’s name)

 

b) Information / Arguments/ Evidence / Questions for witness

- Jan Karski with explain his story

- What did the underground jewish leaders say

- Can you explain how you got into the camps

- Could you explain what you saw when you got through the camps/ghetto?

- How did you feel about the information you were telling people outside of the camps?

 

8. a) Cross Examination of witness for opposition:  Adolf Hitler  (character’s name) played by Eric (student’s name)

 

b) Information / Arguments/ Evidence / Questions for witness

- Could you explain to the Jury what you considered the “Master Race?”

- What is your opinion on wars/violence?

(Show quotes “Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.”)

- If it wasn’t you who gave the order who was it?
(Show 2 recently found documents)

- did u or did u not want the Jews to be eliminated through the war?

(Show quote from Berlin Sportpalast)

- If I have time for one more question…
In your book if you weren’t planning any wars or big attacks, what did you mean when you said…(quote)

 

 

10.  Closing Statement

Hitler became chancellor of Germany 1933

Holocaust happenend 1939

No one went againt Hitler…Or tried to excape from their duties

Hatred towards anyone who was no Aryan

Quote- “The destruction of the Jewery”

Quote- “Anti-semitism will be nourished in every prison camp and the most evil world enemy of all times will have played out it’s role for perhaps a thousand years at least”

 

11.  Works Cited List

http://www.military-quotes.com/Hitler.htm

http://www.mishalov.com/Karski.html

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/karski.html

http://www.holocaust-history.org/hitler-final-solution/

http://stevenlehrer.com/Hitler_threat.htm