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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

For Students 6th - 8th
Anne Frank's diary provides a first-person account of the struggles an adolescent girl faces as her family hides from the Nazis within the terrifying setting of an overcrowded annex. Selected (7) reading passages (grades 6-8) to pair...
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Handout
The History Place

The History Place: The Triumph of Hitler: The Berlin Olympics

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the Olympics that took place in Berlin in 1936, the angry debates and protests over Hitler's anti-Semitic policies, and how Hitler used the Olympics as a way to display the power of the Nazi regime on the world stage.
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Unit Plan
Other

Holocaust Museum Houston: The Butterfly

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem entitled "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" written by Pavel Friedman while living in the ghetto in Nazi Germany. Friedman was lather deported to Terezin Concentration Camp and died in Auschwitz. Links to teaching activities...
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Website
The History Place

The History Place: Germans Elect the Nazis

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place is about Hitler's rise to power and his overwhelming election in 1933. The information is good and worth checking out on the subject.
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Article
University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania: Personalizing Nazis' Homosexual Victims

For Students 9th - 10th
This page has the story of a homosexual man, Josef Kohout, who survived the Holocaust. (Published June 26, 1995)
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Handout
University of Southern California

University of Southern California: Holland as Nazi State

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a description of the beginnings of the German civil government set up over the conquered territory of Holland during World War II.
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Handout
Other

Calvin: 1935 Nazi Propaganda for Rearmament

For Students 9th - 10th
This site displays four examples of German propaganda for rearmament. Analysis of the propaganda is also provided.
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Handout
The History Cat

The History Cat: Invasion of Poland: Appeasement and Nazi Aggression

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the events leading up to the invasion of Poland and how it occurred.
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Mapping the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
When Allied forces reached the concentration camps in WWII, they were not prepared for the devastation that they saw. The soldiers filmed what they witnessed and Frontline used the footage in the documentary Memory of the Camps [57:35]...
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Primary
The History Place

The History Place: Images of Anschluss

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides archived photos with captions showing Nazi rule in Austria. A link to return to a WWII Timeline is also included.
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Website
Other

World War Ii in the Ukraine

For Students 9th - 10th
Short essay describing how the Nazis easily took the Ukraine due to the fact that the Ukrainian people were unaware of Nazi beliefs regarding Slavic peoples.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Holocaust and Resistance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"In this lesson, students reflect on the Holocaust from the point of view of those who actively resisted Nazi persecution." "includes images which should be reviewed in advance for their potential impact on students."
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Website
Then Again

Then Again: Web Chron: Battle of Stalingrad

For Students 9th - 10th
Outlines the 1942 Battle of Stalingrad between Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany.
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Website
Other

Auschwitz Alphabet: Zyklon B (Poison Gas)

For Students 9th - 10th
This page describes how the Nazis used Zyklon B as a gassing agent.
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Handout
Other

Anne Frank House: The Story of Anne Frank: Others Went Into Hiding Too

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the many people who, like Anne Frank, went into hiding in the Netherlands to escape capture by the Nazis. Talks about how they weighed their decision to hide or not to hide, and the consequences of discovery.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Biography: Adolf Hitler for Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
Students can learn about the biography of Adolf Hitler, leader and dictator of Germany during World War II. His Nazi party committed the Holocaust on this webpage.
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Curated OER

Wikipedia: Nazi Party

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers a history of the Nazi, or National Socialist German Workers' Party. Includes image, chart, and hyperlinked terms.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Wikipedia: Nazi Party

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers a history of the Nazi, or National Socialist German Workers' Party. Includes image, chart, and hyperlinked terms.
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Graphic
Curated OER

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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Graphic
Curated OER

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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Graphic
Curated OER

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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Graphic
Curated OER

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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Graphic
Curated OER

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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Graphic
Curated OER

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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