CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Animal Farm" by George Orwell
Animal Farm is an allegorical novel about the animals of Manor Farm that drive out the human farmers and assume control. As time progresses, the dynamic amongst the animals moves from unity and equality to tyranny. Selected (7) reading...
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: The German Bauhaus School
The biography of the German Bauhaus school founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius. Use this site out for more information, artist links and images.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Character Change: The Diary of Anne Frank
Students examine what Anne Frank's writing and a video dramatization of her diary reveal about her character and how it changed while she was in hiding.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: World War Ii's Eastern Front: Operation Barbarossa
The sources in this primary set document Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's massive invasion of the Soviet Union. Includes teaching guide.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Elie Wiesel's Night and the Holocaust
This primary source set includes images, paintings, excerpts, and maps relating to concentration camps. Teaching guide included.
A&E Television
History.com: 10 Things You May Not Know About the Nuremberg Trials
The post-World War II trials marked the first-ever prosecutions for genocide and crimes against humanity. Held directly after World War II, the Nuremberg Trials were a series of 13 military tribunals in which nearly 200 German...
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Anne Frank's Family Home
Discover the house where Anne Frank lived in Merwedeplein, Amsterdam, just before going into hiding.
Curated OER
Nazi March
Online exhibit about one engineer's role in the designing and making of passenger airships or 'zeppelins'
Curated OER
American Soldiers Under Heavy Nazi Machine Gun Fire in Normandy
This military history essay describes the landing of the United States Army during the Normandy Invasion of June 6, 1944.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Wwii Resources
A large site that provides links to various topics of WWII. For example: "Words of Peace, Words of War, Treaties, Declarations, Speeches, etc."; "Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939-1941, Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Hidden Children: Expressions
After the Holocaust, the writings, poetry, songs, and artistic expressions of Jews who experienced it firsthand were collected. These expressions were in some cases ordered by the Nazis, or done secretly in concentration camps,...
The History Place
The History Place: Holocaust Timeline: Heinrich Himmler
This site provides a brief article illustrating one of the main leaders of the Nazi party in Germany during Word War II, Heinrich Himmler. Content includes numerous quotes "justifying" his role in exterminating the Jews.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Dictatorship
A short article on the nature of 20th century dictatorship. It provides examples of dictatorships such as Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Carson of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Read the full text of the novel "Carson of Venus" by Edgar Rice Burroughs which is a satire of Nazi Germany. This is the third book in the Venus series.
My Hero Project
My Hero: Anne Frank
Use this site to learn about the life of Anne Frank, whose experience hiding from the Nazis is recorded in her diary.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Flies
Based on the Greek myth of Orestes and Electra, ths play was written during the Nazi occupation of Paris. Read about the themes and characters in this enlightening site.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: The Book Thief
This Australian novel was pulished in the U.S. in 2006. This young adult fiction novel looks at the life of a young German girl growing up in Nazi Germany. Read about the characters, themes and quotations from the novel in this...
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Night
Night is the story of Elie Wiesel surviving a Nazi concentration camp as a teenager. This site provides comprehensive information about the characters and their incredible situations.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Well Founded Fear (Lesson Plans About Asylum Seekers)
Two lesson plans about asylum seekers, one of which is based on the case of the SS St. Louis, an ocean liner of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from Nazi persecution in 1939. The lessons let students discuss how U.S. immigration and...
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Number the Stars: Analysis
This animation features a discussion about Lois Lowry's novel Number The Stars, which was written about the WW2 Occupation of Denmark by Nazi Germany. 2:19sec.
Other
Close Combat: Germany Attacks the Soviet Union
A description of the 1941 German attack upon the Soviet Union, violating the Nazi-Soviet pack and opening another front of the war.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: The Holocaust for Kids
Discover detailed facts and interesting information about the Holocaust nearly 6 million men, women and children were murdered by the Nazis.
Ducksters
Ducksters: World War Ii History: The Holocaust for Kids
Kids learn about the history of the Holocaust during World War II. Jewish people were killed by the German Nazi Party.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography: Anne Frank for Kids
Read about the biography of Anne Frank who was Jewish girl who wrote about hiding from the Nazis in World War II on this website.
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