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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Enabling Act

For Students 9th - 10th
Yad Vashem provides information on the Nazi Enabling Act of 1933, which gave Hitler's government dictatorial powers for four year.
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Children's Museum

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Anne Frank: Facing Hatred, Daring to Dream

For Teachers 6th - 9th
The inspiring words of a young girl in Nazi Germany continue to impact us today. Students will learn about Anne Frank's intense struggles, but also the hope she shared through her diary. Then they'll consider how they can impact their...
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: 14 June 1940

For Students 9th - 10th
The first transport of 728 Poles, political prisoners, was brought to the German Nazi Auschwitz camp from the Tarnow prison.
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Stanford University

Stanford History Education Group: Nazi Propaganda

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Take a look at propaganda used to gain approval of the annexation of Austria to Germany during World War II through this lesson plan and presentation.
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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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Curated OER

Wikipedia: Nazi Party

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers a history of the Nazi, or National Socialist German Workers' Party. Includes image, chart, and hyperlinked terms.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: The Molotov Ribbentrop Pact

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Modern History Sourcebook which is provided for by Fordham University contains the text of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact.
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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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The History Place

The History Place: Auschwitz Today

For Students 9th - 10th
The History Place provides a virtual slide show of photos taken from a walking tour of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp.
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The History Place

The History Place: The Rise of Adolf Hitler: A New Beginning

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes Hitler's actions after his release from prison in 1924, his political maneuvering, the organization of the Nazi Party, the formation of the Hitler Youth, the reorganization of the Nazi storm troopers, and how the improving...
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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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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Gestapo

For Students 9th - 10th
The Jewish Virtual Library offers a discussion of the Gestapo in Nazi Germany with links to additional related information.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race

For Students 9th - 10th
An online exhibit that displays many artifacts and documents relating to the medical experiments done to European Jews by the Nazis.
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The History Place

The History Place: Hitler Joins German Workers' Party

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides information about Hitler and the German Workers' (Nazi) Party. The information is medium in length and is worth checking out for more info on the subject.
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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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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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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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Other

The Voyage of the Ss St. Louis

For Students 9th - 10th
A personal website provides a snapshot of one Jewish family's plight during the Nazi occupation. The author highlights the journey of one man in particular as he sets sail on the SS St. Louis to flee Nazi persecution.
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Death Marches

For Students 9th - 10th
This Jewish Virtual Library site describes the death marches that Nazi-held prisoners like the Jews, the Russians, and other minorities were forced to take from one concentration camp to another. On these marches the prisoners died...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Story of Raphael Lemkin

For Students 9th - 10th
An article about Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew who emigrated to the U.S. at the beginning of World War II. As a lawyer and scholar, he documented Nazi atrocities and coined the word "genocide."
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New York University

Nyu: Labor & the Holocaust: The Jewish Labor Committee

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource traces the Jewish Labor Committee from its inception in American labor history, through its anti-Nazi work during WW II.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Eichmann Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann that took place in Israel in the early 1960s. He was indicted on 15 counts of 'crimes against humanity' and in 1962 was executed by hanging.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Hidden Children: Hardships

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the hardships children faced in trying to hide from the Nazis, whether openly with false identity papers, or in a hiding place. These included hiding their Jewish faith and practices, being victimized by unscrupulous 'rescuers'...
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The History Place

The History Place: Holocaust: Reinhard Heydrich

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides a lengthy biography of the principal planner of the Final Solution in Nazi Germany, Reinhard Heydrich. The information is somewhat in-depth and worth checking out on the subject.

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