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Stanford University

Stanford History Education Group: Appeasement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Leaders European democracies, like Britain, utilized the appeasement policy during the years during Hitler's dictatorship prior to World War II. The decision to use the policy are greatly debated still....
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Non Jewish Victims of Persecution in Germany

For Students 9th - 10th
Hitler not only targeted Jews, but he also persecuted Gypsies, homosexuals, and the disabled. These groups were considered socio-racial problems that needed to be exterminated. Read a summary of each of these groups and view primary...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Conquest of Poland and the Beginnings of Jewish Persecution

For Students 9th - 10th
With Hitler's conquest of Poland, the Jewish people were subjected to degrading and humiliating laws. Read a summary of the invasion of Poland and view primary sources such as photos, testimonies, video lectures, artifacts, and documents...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Western European Jewry

For Students 9th - 10th
As Hitler moved forward with his plans of conquest, Western European countries were invaded and occupied. This resulted in anti-Semitic laws in countries such as France and the Netherlands. Read background information on these occupied...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Murder of the Jews of the Baltic States

For Students 9th - 10th
Hitler's Final Solution extended into the Baltic States with mass deportation and extermination of the Jewish people. Study background information and examine primary sources such as photos, testimonies, archival footage, video lectures,...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Wannsee Conference

For Students 9th - 10th
The systematic murder of Jews on an industrial scale was the goal of Hitler's Final Solution and discussed at the Wannsee Conference. As a result of the conference. a network of extermination camps was established and 1.7 million Jews...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Death Camps

For Students 9th - 10th
The horrors of the extermination camps during the Holocaust are hard to wrap your mind around. The systematic killing of a group of people by gas or hard labor was part of Hitler's final solution. Read background information on these...
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: "The Eternal Jew"

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic exhibit tells the story of Hitler's regime's humiliation of Jews and events leading to Kristallnacht, often referred to as the beginning of the Holocaust.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Germany's Sculptor

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Hitler used art and images as propaganda during WWII. Students will use these primary sources to recognize the manipulation used by the Nazi regime. They will learn how to analyze and recognize the propaganda techniques used by...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: North Africa and the Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
With the establishment of the Vichy regime in France and pro-Hitler leaders in Iraq, the persecution of Jews fanned out to North Africa and the Middle East. Peruse background information and examine primary sources such as photos,...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Enabling Act

For Students 9th - 10th
Yad Vashem provides information on the Nazi Enabling Act of 1933, which gave Hitler's government dictatorial powers for four year.
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Curated OER

Auschwitz.dk: A Man of Evil

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical information on the life of Hitler is given here at Auschwitz.dk. A focus of the content is on the Holocaust.
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Curated OER

Auschwitz.dk: A Man of Evil

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical information on the life of Hitler is given here at Auschwitz.dk. A focus of the content is on the Holocaust.
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Curated OER

Auschwitz.dk: A Man of Evil

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical information on the life of Hitler is given here at Auschwitz.dk. A focus of the content is on the Holocaust.
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Estimated Number of Jews Killed During World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
Table broken down by country showing estimated numbers of Jewish people killed in each area during World War II.
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Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Jews Disbelieving Reports of Extermination

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay describing how many Jewish people in Germany did not initially believe reports of Jewish extermination due to Nazi control of the press.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Propaganda

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibit documents the critical role of propaganda in the Nazi effort to turn Germany into a totalitarian state driven to annihilate its enemies. Includes a gallery of primary source documents and artifacts, such as posters, books,...
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University of South Florida

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: The Ghettos

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a timeline of the Jewish condemnation to Ghettos. While learning about the Ghetto experience, click on one of the many links to definitions, sound clips, pictures, or related websites. There is an abundance of detailed...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nazi government had many "racial enemies" foremost being the Jews. In this exhibit, The United States Holocaust Museum takes a look at one of the other groups targeted for persecution, homosexuals. Read the fascinating and tragic...
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The History Place

The History Place: The Nazi Holocaust 1938 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
Article depicting the Nazi Holocaust from the beginning in 1938 with a simple boycott to the end in 1945 with the liberation of the death camps.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center the Rise of the Nazi Party

For Students 9th - 10th
Yad Vashem has the largest collection of Holocaust resources than anywhere else in the world. Their main objective is preserving all the stories of this time period so it is not forgotten or repeated. They have broken down the Holocaust...
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University of South Florida

Fcit: A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust offers an overview of the people and events of the Holocaust. Extensive teacher resources and student activities are included, as well as photographs, documents, art, music, movies, literature, and more.
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Other

Holocaust Chronology

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a timeline chronology starting on January 30, 1933 and ending November 1, 1946.
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Other

German Culture: Famous Germans

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biographical profiles of famous Germans recognized worldwide in the arts, military, movies, politics, sciences, and sports.

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