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This resource is part of:
- Chapter 1 The Individual and Society
- Chapter 2 We and They
- Chapter 3 World War: Choices and Consequences
- Chapter 4 The Weimar Republic: The Fragility of Democracy
- Chapter 5 The National Socialist Revolution
- Chapter 6 Conformity and Consent in the National Community
- Chapter 7 Open Aggression and World Responses
- Chapter 8 A War for Race and Space
- Chapter 9 The Holocaust
- Chapter 10 Judgment and Justice
- Chapter 11 Legacy and Memory
- Chapter 12 Choosing to Participate
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Recommended Resources for Holocaust and Human Behavior
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- History
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6–12Language
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Overview
About This Collection
This collection is designed to support your exploration of Holocaust and Human Behavior. It features over 100 classroom-ready resources, including video documentaries and eyewitness testimony. Use these resources to connect your study of the Holocaust to related histories and ideas.
This collection contains all of the resources recommended in Holocaust and Human Behavior, organized by chapter.
- 86 videos
- 13 lessons
- 1 units
- 1 collections
- 5 books
Inside This Collection
Chapter 1: The Individual and Society
The Complexity of Identity
![Blurred crowd used to illustrate "individual and society" in Holocaust and Human Behavior.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/HHB_Chapter_1_Medium_res.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=oyKNRFjB)
The Bear That Wasn't
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A Class Divided
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How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
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Jonathan Lykes Performs "Perception"
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How Social Environments Shape Behavior
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Day of Learning 2013 - Binna Kandola: Diffusing Bias
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Little Things Are Big: Jesús Colón
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Chapter 2: We and They
Understanding Universe of Obligation
![Picture of universe of obligation drawn on a chalkboard.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-11/universe%20of%20obligation_2.jpg?h=c202cbf9&itok=OOQP5hk9)
Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement
![Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement Cover](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Race_Membership_0.jpg?h=c8ae330f&itok=S9_YOSI3)
Creating "We and They": Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Race: The Power of an Illusion (The Story We Tell)
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Genetics, Eugenics, and Ethics
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The Ancient Roots of Anti-Judaism
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When Does "Us" Turn against "Them”?: Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Antisemitism from the Enlightenment to World War I
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Chapter 3: World War: Choices and Consequences
Analyzing the Effects of World War I
![Painting title Gassed by John Singer Sargent. Shows World War I soldiers with bandaged eyes being led by other soldiers. Many dead and injured soldiers laying at the base of the painting.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch3_Image05_Medium_res.jpg?h=fe25bc16&itok=_3yOA5E-)
Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians
![Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/new_Armenian_cover_front.jpg?h=fa720663&itok=25mTeLOp)
Combat and the Colonies: the Role of Race in World War I
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Propaganda during World War I: An Appeal to You!
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Introducing the Armenian Genocide
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The American Response to the Armenian Genocide
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Chapter 4: The Weimar Republic: The Fragility of Democracy
The Weimar Republic: The Fragility of Democracy
![In addition to his depictions of World War I, Otto Dix was also known for his ruthless criticism of German society during the Weimar years.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch04_Image05_Medium_res.jpg?h=92903f94&itok=hFi7XgsO)
Choices in Weimar Republic Elections
![In addition to his depictions of World War I, Otto Dix was also known for his ruthless criticism of German society during the Weimar years.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch04_Image05_Medium_res.jpg?h=92903f94&itok=hFi7XgsO)
Facing History Scholar Reflections: The Weimar Republic
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Hitler's Rise to Power: 1918-1933
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Chapter 5: The National Socialist Revolution
Examining Hitler's First Radio Address
![The Parade of the Political Administrators in Nuremberg, Germany.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1933_GermanPartyDay_%20FH229691.jpg?h=193b5c49&itok=QZdPclXH)
Facing History Scholar Reflections: The Nazi Rise to Power
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From Democracy to Dictatorship
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Hitler's Rise to Power: 1933-1934
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Hitler's First Victims
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Friendship and Betrayal
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The Confessing Church: Early German Protestant Responses to National Socialism - Victoria Barnett
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Awakening Conscience: The Pastor Martin Niemoller Story - Victoria Barnett
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Acting on Faith: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Protest Against National Socialism - Victoria Barnett
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Night of the Long Knives: Jonathan Petropoulos
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Chapter 6: Conformity and Consent in the National Community
Analyzing Nazi Propaganda
![A crowd salutes Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler outside the Reich Chancellery in Berlin after a plebiscite, which gave Hitler absolute power as German Fuhrer. August 19, 1934.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1934_SalutingHitler_FH229692.jpg?h=33252b2e&itok=wqtpArcL)
Art as Propaganda: The Nazi Degenerate Art Exhibit
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Complicity and Cultural Figures in the Third Reich: Navigating the Grey Zone
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Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens)
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Changes at School under the Nazis
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Chapter 7: Open Aggression and World Responses
Understanding Kristallnacht
![Pedestrians in front of the demolished businesses of Jewish residents on Potsdamer St., Berlin. November 10, 1938.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1938_PedestriansFrontDestroyedJewishBusinesses_FH223827.jpg?h=603532df&itok=ov-1rXgn)
"Kristallnacht": The November 1938 Pogroms
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Facing History Scholar Reflections: Kristallnacht
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Preparing for the Kindertransport
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Witnessing Antisemitic Violence
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Turned Away on the M.S. St. Louis
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A Sinister Alliance: Soviet-German Relations 1939–1941
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Chapter 8: A War For Race and Space
Confronting the Suffering Caused by the Nazis
![The Jewish population in Poland being "resettled" by German soldiers, circa 1940-41.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1940_ResettlingPolishJewsInGermany_%20FH229688.jpg?h=b82ee7a4&itok=ZTl0ABqr)
We Call Ourselves "Roma"
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Tackling Discrimination against Roma in Schools
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Bishop von Galen and the War against the Disabled
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Hitler's Ideology: Race, Land, and Conquest
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Introduction to the Jewish Partisans
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Questions of Complicity: France and the Nazi Occupation
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The Nazis in Vilna
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A Sinister Alliance: Soviet-German Relations 1939–1941
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Chapter 9: The Holocaust
Responding to the Stories of Holocaust Survivors
![A memorial at Auschwitz of shoes taken from prisoners of the camp.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_AuschwitzShoeMemorial_%20FH229698.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=yasBC2Fw)
Step By Step: Phases of the Holocaust
![](/sites/default/files/brightcove/videos/images/posters/image_478.jpg)
Facing History Scholar Reflections: The Holocaust
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Surviving a Massacre
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Designing Destruction: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Former Soviet Territory
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Choosing Cruelty: The Psychology of Perpetrators
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The Psychology of Genocidal Behavior
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Obedience: The Milgram Experiment
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War of Annihilation: Targeting the Jews of Europe
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Dehumanizing the Enemy
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Finding Safety in Italy
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Joining the Resistance
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Introduction to the Jewish Partisans
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Life or Death in the Netherlands
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Weapons of the Spirit
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Warning the World
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Eyewitness to Buchenwald
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The Red Army Enters Majdanek
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Chapter 10: Judgment and Justice
Exploring Justice after the Holocaust
![On the right two benches of the accused leaders stretch away from the foreground to the centre of the painting. Behind the defendants stands a line of white-helmeted military police who guard the benches and separate them from the court beyond....](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/HHB_Chapter_10_Medium_res.jpg?h=dfed305d&itok=THFy93nO)
The Nanjing Atrocities: Crimes of War
![The Nanjing Atrocities: Crimes of War Cover.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-03/NanjingAtrocities_cvr.png?h=d9591318&itok=xXHJT-7i)
Nuremberg Remembered
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Nuremberg and Tokyo: Foundations of International Law
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Monsters and Men: The Nazis at Nuremberg
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A Plea for Humanity: The Einsatzgruppen on Trial
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The Nanjing Atrocities: Crimes of War
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Chapter 11: Legacy and Memory
Analyzing and Creating Memorials
![The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, or Holocaust Memorial, is a memorial in Berlin, Germany to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/HHB_Chapter_11_Medium_res.jpg?h=7fb2964e&itok=i4K2A5Oo)
Illuminations: The Art of Samuel Bak
![Book cover featuring painting by Samuel Bak](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-04/Illuminations_cover.png?h=42f34769&itok=f6UchPZt)
Survivors and Witnesses: Video Testimony
![Nate Leipciger shares testimony with students.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-08/Nate_Leipciger_Survivor_Testimony_Hero_Banner.jpeg?h=287014c6&itok=PeKyv8aE)
Totally Unofficial: Raphael Lemkin and the Genocide Convention
![Totally Unofficial: Raphael Lemkin and the Genocide Convention Cover](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/TotallyUnofficialcover.jpg?h=07cdb8c0&itok=fwNBRG_P)
Reconciling Identities after the War
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Friendship before, during, and after the War
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Caring for Survivors
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Antisemitism after Liberation
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Conventional Revolution: Raphael Lemkin and the Crime Without a Name
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Raphael Lemkin: Watcher of the Sky (Introduction)
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Raphael Lemkin: Watcher of the Sky (Genocide Convention)
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Luis Moreno Ocampo: Watcher of the Sky
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Long Night's Journey into Day: South African's Search for Truth and Reconciliation
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Taner Akçam: Why is the Armenian Genocide Important?
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Introducing the Armenian Genocide
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Benjamin Ferencz: Watcher of the Sky
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Chapter 12: Choosing To Participate
Strategies for Making a Difference
![Image of an arpillera, a tapestry that documents abuses that took place during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, 1973-1990.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-11/Rebuilding%20Democracy%20%28FH3203%29.jpg?h=fdfbfa0e&itok=-7zD9azC)
Not in Our Town
![Volunteers from AmeriCorps carry a floor joist at a Habitat for Humanity home site in New Orleans.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-08/hurricane-katrina-new-orleans-la-1-21-06-volunteers-from-americorps-carry-a-57b2dc_teaser.jpeg?h=afe124f6&itok=o37_v0bl)
Facing Ferguson: News Literacy in a Digital Age
![Peaceful protestor speaks to police officer in Ferguson.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/2016_PoliceOfficerinFerguson_FH231304.jpg?h=f3a37c6e&itok=IhwjQkzh)
Stitching Truth: Women's Protest Art in Pinochet's Chile
![Stitching Truth: Women's Protest Art in Pinochet's Chile Cover](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/stitchingthetruth_Lowres.jpg?h=f2bc82e7&itok=Haz4tTQO)
Not In Our Town: Billings, Montana
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The Arpilleras of Chile (with Marjorie Agosin)
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Tragedy Into Hope: Students Rally to Create a Memorial for Ell Persons
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Congressman John Lewis on Bringing the Country Together (and His Aunt's Shotgun House)
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