Unit Plan
Unit Name
HITLER
&
NAZISM
Holocaust, Hitler and Nazism
Standards &
Benchmarks
1 a, b, e, f
2 a, b, c, d, e, g
3 a, e,
5 a, b, f
6 b, c, d, e, f, g,
h, i, k, m
7 b, d, e, f, g
8 a, f, h, i
Content (Concepts,
Procedures, and Attitudes)
The Daily Realities of Holocaust,
How Could the Holocaust Have
Happened? The Jewish
Question, German Complicity,
Effects of Treaty of
Versailles…”politics of hatred”
Economic ruin, disenchantment
with democracy, rise of Hitler,
appeal of NAZISM
Estimated
Time
4 weeks
Teaching Strategies
Assessments
Read aloud, Wiki and
Online Activities,
Role play, speeches
Graded discussion
Map work
Activites in Hite,
Hinton & Dawson
World at War (film)
Triumph of the Will
(film)
LECTURE
Classwork
Graded discussion
Group Teaching
Quizzes
Writing assignments
Unit Test
Objectives:
Students will think through the realities of the Holocaust; Grapple with the existence of Evil; Study cultural complicity; Students will understand the
effects of the Treaty of Versailles, economic hardship of German people through the 1920s; the growing appeal of Hitler; fear of communism; the
Reichstag elections of 1932; the dismantling of democracy in Germany; the remilitarization of Germany; appeasement
Resources:
Hite, John, Chris Hinton, and Ian Dawson. Weimar & Nazi Germany. Hodder Murray, 2000.
Pauley, Bruce F. Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. Harlan Davidson, 2003.
Wolfson, Robert, and John Laver. Years of Change: European History, 1890 – 1990. Hodder & Stoughton, 2001.
Choices Program, Brown University, “Wiemar Germany and the Rise of Hitler.”
Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust.
Kershaw, Ian. The Hitler Myth.
Shirer, William. The Nightmare Years.
Opposing Viewpoints: the rise of Adolf Hitler. Edited by Annette Dufner.
Weisel, Elie. Night.
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
www.casahistoria.net
http://www.ushmm.org/ the Holocaust Museum
Lessons:
The Holocaust as a long, dark ‘Night’
‘The Roots of Anti-semitism’
‘The Jewish Question’
‘How Could The Holocaust Happen?
‘How Did the Nazis Inculcate the German Youth?’
‘Did the Germans Get Screwed by the Versailles Treaty?’
‘How Bad Was the Economy in Germany?’
‘Why Was Hitler Able to Obtain Near-absolute Power?’
‘How Did Hitler Rise to Power?’
‘What was the Nazi Ideology?’
‘Can A Monster Ever Be Appeased?’
Hyperinflation lesson(s) from National Council for Economic Education (NCEE)
Choices Program, Brown University, “Wiemar Germany and the Rise of Hitler.”