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Unit Plan

Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Bystanders

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After the Holocaust, the world grappled with how to bring justice to the Nazis. But what to do with the thousands—if not millions—who allowed it to happen? Young historians consider the issues of guilt, collaboration, and responsibility using survivor testimony, primary sources from Nazi war crime trials, and secondary sources.

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CCSS: Designed
Concepts
holocaust survivors, the holocaust, antisemitism, the nuremberg trials, genocide, war crimes, adolf hitler, nazism, primary source analysis, primary source images, primary sources
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Additional Tags
social studies
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Instructional Ideas
  • Use primary sources to discuss why so many collaborated in the Holocaust
  • Extend learning by asking pupils to compare the response to the Holocaust to the response to the genocide in Rwanda
Classroom Considerations
  • Resource is the ninth installment of the 11-part Teaching the Holocaust series
  • Unit is a three-part plan
Pros
  • Survivor testimony is rich and gripping
  • Discussion questions are ready to use in class
Cons
  • None
Common Core
RI.6.1 RI.6.2 RI.6.3 RI.6.4 RI.6.5 RI.6.6 RI.6.7 RI.6.8 RI.7.1 RI.7.2 RI.7.3 RI.7.4 RI.7.5 RI.7.6 RI.7.7 RI.7.8 RI.8.1 RI.8.2 RI.8.3 RI.8.4 RI.8.5 RI.8.6 RI.8.7 RI.8.8 RI.9-10.1 RI.9-10.2 RI.9-10.3 RI.9-10.4 RI.9-10.5 RI.9-10.6 RI.9-10.7 RI.9-10.8 RI.11-12.1 RI.11-12.2 RI.11-12.4 RI.11-12.5 RI.11-12.7 W.6.8 W.6.10 W.7.8 W.7.10 W.8.8 W.8.10 W.9-10.7 W.9-10.8 W.9-10.9.a W.9-10.10 W.11-12.7 W.11-12.8 W.11-12.9.a W.11-12.10 SL.6.1.a SL.6.2 SL.6.3 SL.7.1.a SL.7.2 SL.7.3 SL.8.1.a SL.8.2 SL.8.3 SL.9-10.1.a SL.9-10.2 SL.9-10.3 SL.9-10.4 SL.11-12.1.a SL.11-12.2 SL.11-12.3 SL.11-12.4 RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.2 RH.6-8.4 RH.6-8.5 RH.6-8.6 RH.6-8.7 RH.6-8.8 RH.6-8.9 RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.3 RH.9-10.4 RH.9-10.5 RH.9-10.6 RH.9-10.7 RH.9-10.8 RH.9-10.9 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.3 RH.11-12.4 RH.11-12.5 RH.11-12.7 RH.11-12.8 RH.11-12.9 WHST.6-8.7 WHST.6-8.8 WHST.6-8.10 WHST.9-10.7 WHST.9-10.8 WHST.9-10.10 WHST.11-12.8 WHST.11-12.10