Standard 1: Analyze the origins of antisemitism and its use by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi) regime.

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Number: SS.912.HE.1
Title: Analyze the origins of antisemitism and its use by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi) regime.
Type: Standard
Subject: Social Studies
Grade: 912
Strand: Holocaust Education

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SS.912.HE.1.AP.1
Recognize the Holocaust is history’s most extreme example of antisemitism, persecution, and murder on the European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945.
SS.912.HE.1.AP.2
Identify how the Nazi regime utilized and built on historical antisemitism including propaganda to create a common enemy of the Jews.
SS.912.HE.1.AP.3a
Describe how the Treaty of Versailles was a causal factor leading the rise of the Nazis, and how the increasing spread of antisemitism was manipulated to the Nazis’ advantages.
SS.912.HE.1.AP.3b
Recognize German culpability, reparations, and military downsizing as effects of the Treaty of Versailles.
SS.912.HE.1.AP.4
Explain how the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and gained and maintained power in Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945 under the leadership of Adolf Hitler.
SS.912.HE.1.AP.5
Recognize the Nazis utilized various forms of propaganda to indoctrinate the German population.
SS.912.HE.1.AP.6
Identify how the Nazis used education and youth programs to indoctrinate young people into the Nazi ideology.
SS.912.HE.1.AP.7a
Define “the Aryan Race” and why this terminology was used.
SS.912.HE.1.AP.7b
Identify how the Nazis used propaganda, pseudoscience and the law to transform Judaism from a religion to a race.
SS.912.HE.1.AP.7c
Explain how eugenics, scientific racism and Social Darwinism provided a foundation for Nazi racial beliefs.

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Law and the Holocaust:

From 1933 to 1945, the Nazi party gained political power in Germany. During this reign, the Nazi rule restricted those who they considered inferior, especially the Jewish people. In this lesson, students will analyze primary and secondary sources to analyze how the Nazi government used the law to systemically take rights away from its citizens, and create a society that would carry out the Holocaust.

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