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| | style="width: 100%; height: 37px;" | <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">'''Lessons Learned From The Holocaust'''</span> | | | style="width: 100%; height: 10px;" | <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">'''Lessons Learned From The Holocaust'''</span> |
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| <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">The Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II was one of the most extensive and shocking acts of genocide in human history. The Holocaust has forced humans to re-evaluate what it means to be a human being and to possess rights, and has forced us to confront disturbing conclusions about human nature. Use the following resources and questions to prepare for a discussion on the Lessons Learned from the Holocaust.</span> | | <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">The Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II was one of the most extensive and shocking acts of genocide in human history. The Holocaust has forced humans to re-evaluate what it means to be a human being and to possess rights, and has forced us to confront disturbing conclusions about human nature. Use the following resources and questions to prepare for a discussion on the Lessons Learned from the Holocaust.</span> |
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| | style="width: 100%; height: 39px;" | <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">'''Activity: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LkGtbq5dFT78Gh16u4n90O1OtUgtXTSMxuc58lk-3sw/copy Lessons Learned from the Holocaust Google Docs Question Worksheet]'''</span><br>
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| <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">1. What were the Nuremberg Trials?</span>
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| <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Read:</span> <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"> </span>[https://www.learnsocialstudies.org/wiki/images/5/58/Nurembergtrials.pdf The Nuremberg Trials]
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| <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">2. Look at the info from the ''Trial of Adolf Eichmann'', a German Nazi SS and organizer of the Holocaust. Look at the charges against him and the defense strategy.</span> <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"> </span><br><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Read: </span>[http://remember.org/eichmann/study4.htm Trial of Adolf Eichmann]
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| | style="width: 100%; height: 28px;" | <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">2A) What is the main defense that Eichmann uses? </span><br>
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| | style="width: 100%; height: 28px;" | <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">2B) Do you think this is a valid defense? Explain why or why not?<br></span>
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| <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">3. Watch the video excerpts below from the film Judgement at Nuremberg (1961) which depicts the trial of Nazi leader Ernst Janning.</span>
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| <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">View: </span>[https://www.learnsocialstudies.org/wiki/images/4/4d/Judgementnurembergverdict.mp4 Judgement at Nuremberg - Verdict]
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| <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">View: </span>[https://www.learnsocialstudies.org/wiki/images/4/4f/Judgementnurembergworldsguilt.mp4 Judgement at Nuremberg - World's Guilt]
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| | style="width: 100%; height: 28px;" | <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">3A) In your opinion, who bears ultimate responsibility for the crimes of Nazi Germany? Why?</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"></span><br>
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| | style="width: 100%; height: 28px;" | <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">3B) How far can we extend the blame for the Holocaust? Explain<br></span>
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| | style="width: 100%; height: 28px;" | <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">3C) Who is guilty? Explain.<br></span>
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| ! style="width: 33.3333%;" | [https://www.learnsocialstudies.org/wiki/images/2/2f/Whendidtheworldknowholocaust.pdf When Did the World Find Out About the Holocaust]
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| ! style="width: 27.6681%;" | [https://www.learnsocialstudies.org/wiki/images/e/e9/WestknewinMar1942.pdf West Knew of Holocaust in March 1942]
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| ! style="width: 38.9985%;" | [https://www.learnsocialstudies.org/wiki/images/d/d8/Redcrossfailedholocaust.pdf How the Red Cross Failed Europe's Jews & American POW's]
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| | style="width: 100%; height: 28px;" | <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">4A) What Did the World Know?</span>
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| | style="width: 100%; height: 28px;" | <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">4B) Why did the allied forces (Great Britain, France, and U.S.) decide NOT to take action to liberate concentration camps before the end of the war?</span><br>
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| | style="width: 100%; height: 28px;" | <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">4C) Do the allied powers bear some responsibility for the Holocaust? Why or why not?</span><br>
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| <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">5. View the presentation on German Resistance to the Nazi Regime. </span>
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| <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;" >[https://www.learnsocialstudies.org/repository/2022/07/27/wwii-german-resistance-to-nazi-rule/ German Resistance to Nazi Rule]</span>
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| | style="width: 100%; height: 28px;" | <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">5A) Why didn't the European non-Jewish population take more action to defend the rights of the Jews?</span>
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| <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Watch this video of a psychology experiment and be able to answer the question below.</span>
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| [https://www.learnsocialstudies.org/wiki/images/8/8b/MilgrimExperiment.mp4 The Milgram Experiment - Jeroen Busscher]
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| | style="width: 100%; height: 28px;" | <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">6A) One of the many disturbing conclusions that some people have made form the Holocaust is the idea that under the right circumstances, ordinary men can be transformed into murderers. Do you agree with this conclusion? <br></span>
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| | style="width: 100%; height: 28px;" | <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">7A) As citizens, when should we follow the law, and when, if ever, is it justifiable to break the law? <br></span> | |
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| | style="width: 100%;" | <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">7B) How would some of the other authors we have discussed answer this question (Locke, Hobbes, Machiavelli, Rousseau)?</span> | | | style="width: 50%; background-color: rgb(194, 224, 244); border-style: inset;" | <span style="font-size: 14pt;">You should follow and complete the tasks in order.</span> |
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| | style="width: 100%; height: 51px;" | <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">8. Josef Stalin is responsible for the deaths of 10-20 million noncombatants and Hitler is responsible for the deaths of 12 million. Why do you think Nazi Germany and the Holocaust garner (get) more attention?</span>
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| | style="width: 100%; height: 28px;" | <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">10. Have we learned anything from the lessons of the Holocaust? Explain your answer and include specific examples.</span>
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| | | | style="width: 100%; height: 23px;" | <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Complete your research by exploring and answering the questions in the workpacket below.</span> |
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| | *[https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/GlobalUS-History-Lessons-Learned-from-the-Holocaust-Webquest-11989769 Lessons From The Holocaust Webquest Workpacket] |
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