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Laws and the National Community
Duration
One 50-min class periodSubject
- Civics & Citizenship
- History
- Social Studies
Grade
6–12Language
English — USPublished
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In the previous lesson, students analyzed some of the dilemmas experienced by individual Germans during the National Socialist revolution in Germany. In this lesson, students will continue this unit’s historical case study by turning their attention to what happened after the revolution was complete and the Nazis firmly established control over Germany. Specifically, students will be introduced to the Nazis’ idea of a “national community” shaped according to their racial ideals, a concept students will continue to explore in two lessons that follow this one. While there were many ways in which the Nazis shaped and cultivated their ideal “national community,” in this unit students will look closely at three of those methods. In this lesson, they will examine the way the Nazis used laws to define who belonged to the “national community” and then separate those who did not belong. In future lessons, students will look at the Nazis’ use of propaganda and their creation of youth groups to shape German society.
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