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Lesson Plan
National Archives (UK)

National Archives Learning Curve: Hitler

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Three 1937 reports speak to the potential problems of a Hitler-led Germany. Primary source documents, cartoons, and historical documents address the question, "Was Hitler a passionate lunatic?" in this series of performance tasks.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Nazi Germany's "Euthanasia" Program

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Nazi Germany's "Euthanasia" Program" by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as...
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Handout
The History Place

The History Place: The Rise of Adolf Hitler: Success and a Suicide

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the early successes of the Nazi Party, problems with the SA storm troopers, Hitler's relationship with his niece, and her suicide.
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Website
The History Place

The History Place: The Rise of Adolf Hitler

For Students 9th - 10th
The History Place looks at the rise of the German dictator Adolf Hitler.
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Handout
The History Place

The History Place: The Rise of Adolf Hitler: The Quiet Years

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes Hitler's life from 1920 to 1929 which he recalled as his happiest years. Joseph Goebbels became an ardent follower then, Hitler set up home in the country, and he began a relationship with his niece. Then the stock market crash...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Courage in Denmark: Resistance to the Nazis in Wwii by Us Holocaust

For Students 7th - 8th
World War II (WWII), a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945 involved more than 100 million people and over 30 countries. The Allied powers - including the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union - worked together...
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Website
University of South Florida

Holocaust Timeline: The Nazification of Germany

For Students 9th - 10th
This incredible site outlines the rise and implementation of the Nazi Party in Germany. While learning about Hitler's transformation of Germany, explore the incredible pictures, audio clips, maps, video clips, and an interactive quiz.
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Handout
The History Place

The History Place: The Triumph of Hitler: The Burning of Books

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the Nazi Party's burning of books across the country in 1933 as a way to suppress ideas that went against Nazi beliefs and that might inspire discontent and protests.
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Handout
The History Place

The History Place: The Rise of Adolf Hitler: Hitler Becomes Dictator

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the measures taken by the Nazis who used Hitler's Emergency Decree as a pretence to brutally remove all elected officials who were not sympathizers. The result was an end of democracy and Hitler was established as a dictator....
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Website
The History Place

The History Place: Hitler Youth

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides a history of the Hitler Youth, a movement created by Hitler to ensure a strong Nazi future for Germany.
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Handout
The History Place

The History Place: The Triumph of Hitler: Triumph of the Will

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes Hitler's rallies in Nuremberg and the film, Triumph of the Will, directed by Leni Riefenstahl that was used in the Nazi propaganda campaign.
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Handout
The History Place

The History Place: The Rise of Adolf Hitler: Great Depression Begins

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the beginning of the Great Depression in Germany and how Hitler's tactics now shifted to getting himself elected in order to achieve his goals.
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Article
BBC

Bbc: History: The Rise of Adolf Hitler

For Students 9th - 10th
Archived article explores Adolf Hitler's early years as a drifter and failed artist to his remarkable transformation as a brutal German dictator.
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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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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: Country Studies: Hitler and the Rise of National Socialism

For Students 9th - 10th
The rise of Adolf Hitler to dictatorial power as the leader of the NSDAP, the failed putsch of 1923, the Great Depression and its consequences for the growth of nationalistic ideas in Germany in the thirties.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Enhance lessons focused on Nazism in Germany, the rise and fall, by utilizing the resources suggested.
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Website
Other

Greenville History Site: Germany 1919 33 Revision

For Students 9th - 10th
An outline sheet that covers the history of the Weimar Republic in Germany from 1919 to 1933. The problems facing the republic are discussed along with reasons why the Weimar Republic eventually failed and was replaced by Hitler's...
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Primary
Other

Calvin College: Nazi and East German Propaganda

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of visual and printed propaganda material from 1933 to 1989 centers around the rise of the Nazi Party, World War II from the Nazi perspective, and East German Communism.
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Handout
Other

Simon Wiesenthal Center: About Simon Wiesenthal

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, prepared for the web site of the foundation that carries his name and whose ongoing work is one of bringing Nazi perpetrators to justice.
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Website
Other

Anschluss

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed account of the takeover and annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938. Includes links to various personalities, events and sources related to the event including actual radio accounts from the period.
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Website
The History Place

The History Place: Rise of Adolph Hitler: Mein Kampf

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides the blueprint for Germany's future, "Mein Kampf" which outlines categories of humanity, the superiority of Aryans, Aryan counterparts, the Jew, and military conquests. Contains quotes from "Mein...
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Website
The History Place

The History Place: Photo of Nazi Rule in Sudetenland

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides an archived photo of Czech woman dutifully saluting the Nazis during the occupation of the Sudetenland. Includes short description.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Anti Jewish Legislation in Prewar Germany

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Anti-Jewish Legislation in Prewar Germany" by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be...
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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.