WWII EC: The Holocaust

Extra Credit: Holocaust Overview - The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jewish people by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jewish people, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. In addition the the Jewish targets, there were also 5-6 million other types of people who were also targeted by the Nazi regime. For extra credit watch the videos that give an overview of the Holocaust and write a minimum 1 page summary about what you learned, relating to what was discussed in class.

Extra Credit: The The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - The The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country’s memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. Jews were the primary victims — six million were murdered; Gypsies, the handicapped and Poles were also targeted for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic, or national reasons. Millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war and political dissidents, also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi tyranny. The Museum’s primary mission is to advance and disseminate knowledge about this unprecedented tragedy; to preserve the memory of those who suffered; and to encourage its visitors to reflect upon the moral and spiritual questions raised by the events of the Holocaust as well as their own responsibilities as citizens of a democracy. For extra credit, click on the links below to the museum's wepage and write a minimum 1 page summary about what you learned, relating it to what was discussed in class. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/

Extra Credit: Conspiracy - In January 1942 a conference is assembled in Wannsee to discuss the "evacuation" of Germany's Jews and other "undesirables". "Evacuation" is a code word for the Nazi government's  extermination policy. It is quickly established by those present that there is a significant "Jewish problem", in that the Jews of Europe cannot be efficiently contained, nor can they be forced onto other countries. As the movie progresses and attendees of the conference discuss how to deal with the "Jewish problem", it becomes evident that a "comprehensive, final solution" has already been decided upon and this intense meeting is more of a mere informative informality. This intense drama, which peeks into the mentality of those behind the organization of the systematic murder of millions of people, is based on the only surviving records of the conference and is HIGHLY recommended! For extra credit watch the videos that and write a minimum 1 page summary about what you learned, relating to what was discussed in class.

Full length film - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By3zlzk3Z1HxVVhZanlIRkYxaUU/view?usp=sharing

Extra Credit: Targets of the Nazi Holocaust/"Ethnic Cleansing" Programs - "Ethnic cleansing" has been defined as the attempt to get rid of (through deportation, displacement or even mass killing) members of an unwanted ethnic group in order to establish an ethnically homogeneous (meaning, the same in kind) geographic area. Though "cleansing" campaigns for ethnic or religious reasons have existed throughout history, the rise of extreme nationalist movements during the 20th century led to an unprecedented level of ethnically motivated brutality, including the the Nazi Holocaust's annihilation of some six million European Jewish people and 5-6 million others. For extra credit watch the videos that and write a minimum 1 page summary about what you learned, relating to what was discussed in class.

Extra Credit: Band of Brothers - Liberation of a Concentration Camp - Watch the following clip from the HBO series Band of Brothers and write a minimum 1 page summary/response to what you watched and learned about the camps, relating it to what we have discussed in class. Following the episode, watch the interview of a real WWII soldier who played a part in liberating one of the concentration camps.

Extra Credit: Remembering the Holocaust  - For extra credit watch the videos and write a minimum 1 page summary about what you learned, relating to what was discussed in class.

Holocaust Memory of Millions 

Holocaust Teenage Experience

Voices of the Holocaust 

Extra Credit: The History Channel - Click on the following link to learn more about the Nuremberg Laws under Hitler's Nazi Germany. These laws were among the first of the racist Nazi laws that culminated in the Holocaust. Write a minimum 1 page summary about what you learned, relating it to what we have discussed in class. http://www.history.com/topics/nurnberg-laws

Extra Credit: The History Channel - Click on the following link to learn more about the Holocaust. For exta credit, write a 1 minimum 1 page summary about what you learned, relating it to what we have discussed in class.  http://www.history.com/topics/the-holocaust    

Extra Credit: Holocaust Movie Clips - For extra credit, watch the following movie trailers related to the Holocaust and write a 1 minimum page summary of what you learned, relating it to what was discussed in class.

Defiance:

Anne Frank, The Whole Story:

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas:

Schlindler's List:

The Pianist:

Life is Beautiful:

Extra Credit: The Voyage of the St. Louis - On May 13, 1939, the German transatlantic liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany, for Havana, Cuba. On the voyage were 937 passengers. Almost all were Jews fleeing from the Third Reich. The German annexation of Austria in March 1938, the increase in personal assaults on Jews during the spring and summer, the nationwide Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass") pogrom in November, and the subsequent seizure of Jewish-owned property had caused a flood of visa applications. The plight of German-Jewish refugees, persecuted at home and unwanted abroad, is illustrated by the voyage of the St. Louis. For extra credit, click on the following link and watch the animated map. Write a minimum 1 page summary about what you learned, relating it to what was discussed in class.  http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?ModuleId=10005267&MediaId=3544

Extra Credit: The Secret Intel Mission of Jan Karski - Jan Karski was a liaison officer of the Polish underground who infiltrated both the Warsaw Ghetto and a German concentration camp and then carried the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to a mostly disbelieving West. Learn more about the life and story of this amazing man who took great risk to alert the leaders of the West about what was happening to the Jews of Europe under the Nazi Regime. Watch the following interviews from 1988 where he tells the story in his own words. For more information, follow the link below to the Jan Karski Educational Foundation. For extra credit, write a minimum 1 page summary about what you learned, relating it to what was discussed in class.  http://www.jankarski.net/en

Extra Credit: Deadly Medicine - From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to "cleanse" German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation's "health." Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of "genetically diseased" persons and ended with the near annihilation of the European Jewish population. To relate this history, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum presents high-quality photo reproductions of historical artifacts and documents, as well as photographs and film footage, in settings that evoke medical and scientific environments. Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race inspires reflection on the continuing attraction of biological utopias that promote the possibility of human perfection. From the early twentieth-century international eugenics movements to present-day dreams of eliminating inherited disabilities through genetic manipulation, the issues remain timely.

For exta credit, watch the following overview and then click the link to the museum exibit, then write a  minimum 1 page summary about what you learned, relating it to what we have discussed in class.

Link to exibit - http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/deadlymedicine/

Extra Credit: Anne Frank Biography - For extra credit, watch the following video and click on the following links to learn more about Anne Frank. 

http://www.annefrank.org/  

http://annefrank.com/

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005210

http://www.biography.com/people/anne-frank-9300892

Extra Credit: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - "Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences". Click on the following link to watch the full length movie and write a minimum 1 page  summary of the movie, relating it to what we discussed in class.

http://historylovesyou.blogspot.com/2012/02/boy-in-stripped-pajamas.html

Extra Credit:  Anne Frank - The Whole Story - "When the war began, she was only a little girl. When it ended, she was the voice of a generation... A compassionate and sensitive visual portrait of the Holocaust's greatest diarist".  Click on the following link to watch the full length movie and write a minimum 1 page  summary of the movie, relating it to what we discussed in class.  http://historylovesyou.blogspot.com/2012/02/anne-frank-whole-story.html 

Extra Credit: Simon Wiesenthal - Nazi Hunter - Simon Wiesenthal, who died in Vienna, Austria in 2005 at age 96, was former Holocaust survivor who became known as the "Nazi hunter" because he pursued hundreds of war criminals after World War II and was central to preserving the memory of the Holocaust for more than half a century. Following four and a half years in the German concentration camps during WWII, fugitive Nazis so that they could be brought to justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Wiesenthal said he helped bring 1,100 ex-Nazis to trial Wiesenthal dedicated his life to tracking down and gathering information on. Watch the following movies and write a minimum 1 page summary about what you learned, relating it to what we discussed in class.

Extra Credit - View Historical Film clips from WWII and the Holocaust and write a summary of 1/2 page minimum about what you learned. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_list.php?MediaType=fi