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![A group of high school students sit at desks in conversation.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2023-10/AdobeStock_254378868.jpg?itok=f6YAphey)
Introducing Our US History Curriculum Collection
Draw from this flexible curriculum collection as you plan any middle or high school US history course. Featuring units, C3-style inquiries, and case studies, the collection will help you explore themes of democracy and freedom with your students throughout the year.
Discovering Jewish Blood
Find out how one family's lives changed when Hitler passed the Nuremberg Laws in Nazi Germany.
![This chart was designed to help Germans determine their racial status as outlined by the 1935 Nuremberg Laws.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1935_ChartIllustratingNurembergLaws_FH229446.jpg?h=1925ac1e&itok=debI0Ujn)
Even If All Others Do—I Do Not!
Reflect on the true story of a father who dared to challenge the education his children received in Nazi Germany.
![This mid-1930s poster says, “The NSDAP (Nazi Party) protects the people. Your fellow comrades need your advice and help, so join the local party organization.”](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1936_NaziRecruitmentPropaganda_FH229451.jpg?h=5e938d19&itok=Wj-dTXcd)
Joining the Hitler Youth
Reflect on these firsthand experiences of former members of the Nazi Youth.
![The League of German Girls was the girls wing of the Nazi Party youth movement. A typical activity for members was to go on walks while their mothers were working.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_LeagueGermanGirls_FH229440.jpg?h=cb9047e7&itok=XKNkvqOT)
Models of Obedience
Consider how conformity, obedience, and desire for belonging influenced the attitudes and values of youth in Nazi Germany.
![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)
The Nuremberg Laws
Learn about the laws that redefined what it meant to be German in Nazi Germany, and that stripped Jews and others of citizenship.
![In 1933, Jewish businessman Oskar Danker and his girlfriend, a Christian woman, were forced to carry signs discouraging Jewish-German integration. Intimate relationships between “true Germans” and Jews were outlawed by 1935.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_DiscouragingGermanJewishIntegration_FH229441.jpg?h=ad1846e1&itok=dfgQyzmm)
Propaganda at the Movies
Learn how the Nazis used film to create an image of the “national community” and to demonize those they viewed as the enemy, such as the Jews.
![Leni Riefenstahl's documentary-style film Triumph of the Will glorified Hitler and the Nazi party. It was shot at the 1934 Nazi Party congress and rally in Nuremberg.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1934_TriumphOfTheWillPropagandaFilm_%20FH229448.jpg?h=0429cc9e&itok=aYRfG6nB)
A Commandant’s View
Get insight into how a commander at a Nazi death camp viewed his victims and coped with his actions.
![SS guards portrait at Dachau Concentration Camp](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1933_SSGuardsPortraitAtDachau_%20FH220823.jpg?h=958cf23b&itok=19XN9g0g)
The Death Marches
Learn how the Germans tried to hide evidence of their mass murder toward the end of World War II by evacuating prisoners from camps.
![The start of the selection process, in front of the camp's entrance. Some prisoners who had already been at the camp a while assist in sorting the new arrivals.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_TheStartOfTheSelectionProcess_%20FH260049.jpg?h=827069f2&itok=jaQGDMjo)
The Difference between Knowing and Believing
Consider why some world leaders responded with disbelief to testimonies of the mass killings the Nazis were carrying out in Europe during World War II.
![Marion Pritchard holds Erika Polak, one of the children she saved from the Nazis. Working with the Dutch resistance, Pritchard helped save more than 150 children during World War II.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_MarionPritchard_%20FH229480.jpg?h=22294cb3&itok=dlCxu8XS)
Difficult Choices in Poland
Consider how two people in occupied-Poland responded to the persecution and murder of Jews in their community.
![Three members of the Jewish Fighting Organization caught after the Warsaw ghetto uprising.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_WarsawGhettoUprisingResisters_FH229471.jpg?h=54e89a37&itok=2wF9NwaG)
Diplomats and the Choice to Rescue
Read the stories of two diplomats who chose to use their status to rescue Jews from the Nazis during World War II.
![Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst in June 1942.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_WhiteRoseResistanceGroup_FH229473.jpg?h=dfc3751c&itok=BjXT-amv)