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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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PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: World War Ii Looted Art: Turning History Into Justice

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic exhibit explores the systematic looting of art in Nazi-occupied countries. These looted treasures were hidden in castles and salt mines in Austria and Germany and many have since been recovered.
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Handout
Other

Leningrad Attacks

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpts from a Russian Naval Admiral's memoirs concerning the attacks on Leningrad.
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Website
PBS

Pbs: The War: The Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
At the online companion site of the PBS documentary series "THE WAR," read an in-depth article about the Holocaust.
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Handout
Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: The Molotov Ribbentrop Pact

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Modern History Sourcebook which is provided for by Fordham University contains the text of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact.
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Website
Other

Lebensraum: Living Space for the German Race

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides a discussion of the concept of "Lebensraum," or "living space" for the German people. This was one of Hitler's main justifications for his military conquests.
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Website
Other

Greenfield History Site: Road to World War Ii Revision

For Students 9th - 10th
A review sheet which covers the major points in the march toward World War II in Europe. You can click on the major points (1-7) and then are given notes on the various topics such as why Hitler wanted to destroy the Treaty of Versailles...
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Website
The History Place

The History Place: Statistics of the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
This page from The History Place has a chart with the number of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust. Nearly 6 million Jewish people were murdered. This site is disturbing its apparent accuracy of the Jewish slaughter.
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Website
PBS

Pbs/people's Century: Master Race

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed description of the program, "People's Century: Master Race -- Nazism Overtakes German Society," from PBS.
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Primary
Other

University of West England: German Proclamation on War With Ussr: June 22, 1941

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource includes the text to Adolf Hitler's speech to the German people declaring war against Russia in 1941.
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: Nuremberg Trials

For Students 9th - 10th
Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949. The defendants, who included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Liesel Meminger is only nine years old when she is taken to live with a foster family, the Hubermanns, on Himmel Street in Molching, Germany, in the late 1930s. She arrives with few possessions, but among them is The Grave Digger's...
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Molotov Ribbentrop Pact

For Students 9th - 10th
An information-packed encyclopedia article from Wikipedia on the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact presents a good summary of the events that led up to the signing of the pact. There is also a link to the text of the pact.
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Handout
The History Place

The History Place: Edouard Daladier

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides the text of a speech by French premier,Edouard Daladier, from January of 1940 following the fall of Poland. In the speech Daladier clearly implied that the policy of appeasement had been a failure.