About forty years ago, Charles de Gaulle was re-elected as President of France. As a thank-you to French voters, he declared that anyone who had an unpaid traffic ticket (parking violations, speeding, that sort of thing) did not have to pay the ticket. It was a wildly popular gesture -- and every French president since then has repeated it. What problem does this traffic ticket foregiveness create

1. how did conditions in germany and europe at the end of world war i contribute to the rise and triumph of nazism in germany? 2. how did the german government under nazi rule build support among the german people? 3. how did nazi germany gradually isolate, segregate, impoverish, and incarcerate jews and persecute other perceived enemies of the state between 1933 and 1939? 4. how did the nazis lead germany to war in europe and, with their collaborators, kill millions—including systematically murdering six million jewish people? 5. why is learning about the holocaust important? so we don’t repeat history.