STATION 1: Topics in the Holocaust
1.1 Exploring the Holocaust Museum
Visit the US Holocaust Memorial Museum website here. On this page there are many links to various topics. There are five main topics - Nazi Rule, Jews in Pre-War Germany, The "Final Solution," Nazi Camp System, and Rescue and Resistance. FOr each of those five main sections, you are responsible for choosing one of the links underneath. It can be whatever is most interesting to you. Read and explore through that page, and take notes on the corresponding worksheet.
STATION 2: Punishing Those Responsible
2.1 Punishing the Nazis
(the above clip is from Band of Brothers)
Many top Nazi officials were tried and punished, the most famous event being the Nuremberg Trials. Watch a news reel about the Nuremberg Trial here.
However, many high-ranking Nazis fled. Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, lived in Austria until 1950 and then moved to South America until 1960. He was caught and taken to Israel where he was tried and executed in 1962. Many others were never caught. Dr. Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death" at Auschwitz, lived out his life in South America and died while swimming in 1979. They made a movie based on Mengele's life in Argentina called The German Doctor (Walkoda).
In 2015, Nazis were still being prosecuted. Watch the clip about Oskar Groening's trial last year here.
2.2 Passive Bystanders
Read the poem by Father Martin Niemoller here.
STATION 3: The Psychology of Genocide
3.1 Psychology of Nazism
Watch the Disney short film "Education for Death" here.
3.2 The Milgram Experiment
Watch the short documentary on The Milgram Experiment here.
3.3 The Stanford Prison Experiment
Watch a short summary of the Stanford Prison Experiment here.
*Still wondering about how the Nazis did all of this? A high school teacher in California did an experiment in fascism in 1967- after his students asserted that there was no way something like Hitler and the Nazis could happen again. Here is a link to that experiment. Germany made a movie on it later on called "Die Welle (The Wave)". The movie is definitely rated R because the Germans use atrocious language. Get parental consent first (or watch it with your parents!)
STATION 4: Genocides in the 20th century
The Holocaust was one of many genocides that occurred in the 20th century; most others occurred in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. This website goes through seven genocides in the 1900s; choose one, and fill out the chart in your notes.
1.1 Exploring the Holocaust Museum
Visit the US Holocaust Memorial Museum website here. On this page there are many links to various topics. There are five main topics - Nazi Rule, Jews in Pre-War Germany, The "Final Solution," Nazi Camp System, and Rescue and Resistance. FOr each of those five main sections, you are responsible for choosing one of the links underneath. It can be whatever is most interesting to you. Read and explore through that page, and take notes on the corresponding worksheet.
STATION 2: Punishing Those Responsible
2.1 Punishing the Nazis
(the above clip is from Band of Brothers)
Many top Nazi officials were tried and punished, the most famous event being the Nuremberg Trials. Watch a news reel about the Nuremberg Trial here.
However, many high-ranking Nazis fled. Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, lived in Austria until 1950 and then moved to South America until 1960. He was caught and taken to Israel where he was tried and executed in 1962. Many others were never caught. Dr. Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death" at Auschwitz, lived out his life in South America and died while swimming in 1979. They made a movie based on Mengele's life in Argentina called The German Doctor (Walkoda).
In 2015, Nazis were still being prosecuted. Watch the clip about Oskar Groening's trial last year here.
2.2 Passive Bystanders
Read the poem by Father Martin Niemoller here.
STATION 3: The Psychology of Genocide
3.1 Psychology of Nazism
Watch the Disney short film "Education for Death" here.
3.2 The Milgram Experiment
Watch the short documentary on The Milgram Experiment here.
3.3 The Stanford Prison Experiment
Watch a short summary of the Stanford Prison Experiment here.
*Still wondering about how the Nazis did all of this? A high school teacher in California did an experiment in fascism in 1967- after his students asserted that there was no way something like Hitler and the Nazis could happen again. Here is a link to that experiment. Germany made a movie on it later on called "Die Welle (The Wave)". The movie is definitely rated R because the Germans use atrocious language. Get parental consent first (or watch it with your parents!)
STATION 4: Genocides in the 20th century
The Holocaust was one of many genocides that occurred in the 20th century; most others occurred in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. This website goes through seven genocides in the 1900s; choose one, and fill out the chart in your notes.
