“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
- Primo Levi
TODAY'S PLAN
TODAY'S OBJECTIVES
- Take the Daily Quiz
- This Day in History
- Vocabuarly of the Day
- Answer Common Questions about the Holocaust
- Quick tour of the Holocaust Museum
- Watch clips from A Path to Genocide as a class
TODAY'S OBJECTIVES
- Develop an understanding of what the Holocaust was and why it happened.
- Answer the following questions:
- Was Hitler solely responsible for the Holocaust?
- Why didn't Jews leave when the Nazis came to power?
- Why wasn't there more resistance from Jews?
- How did the perpetrators know who was Jewish?
- What happened if you disobeyed an order to participate in an atrocity?
- Wasn't one of Hitler's relatives Jewish?
- Why were Jews singled out for extermination?
- What did the United States know about the Holocaust and how did it respond?
- Answer the following questions: