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KEY WORDS AND PHRASES
NAZI GERMANY
Echoes and Reflections Lesson 3
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Antisemitism
Apathy
Aryan
Boycott
BDJJ
Bystander
Communist
Concentration Camp
Dehumanization
Democracy
Discrimination
“Hatikvah”
“Horst Wessel” song
Kosher
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Kristallnacht Pogrom
Magen David
Nationalism
Nazi
Nuremburg Laws
Prejudice
Refugee
Reichstag
Scapegoat
Sinti-Roma
Socialist
Stereotype
Totalitarian
Treaty of Versailles
Weimar Republic
THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC AND THE RISE OF THE NAZI
PARTY-HOLOCAUST STUDIES BOOKLET
WARM UP: COMPLETE SENTENCE AND MORE
• Do you think that the Nazis’ rise to power was inevitable based on what you read? Explain.
• In your Holocaust Studies OneNote Notebook,
• Do you think that democracy, in general, is fragile? Explain.
under Nazi Germany Lesson 3, finish the following
sentence:
• Why do you think the democracy of Germany was so fragile?
• What did the Nazis offer the German people? How could what they proposed solve the
problems facing Germany?
• Can you also see the dangers in what the Nazis offered? Explain.
• What are the characteristics of a democracy?
– Democracy is….
• How does democracy benefit the individual?
• How does democracy benefit society?
• How can democracy be affected by individuals and society?
• What are some ways that a democracy protects itself so as to avoid becoming a totalitarian
state?
• What personal characteristics did the leader like Hitler offer the German people? How
might that appeal to the people?
IN YOUR PRIMARY SOURCE BOOKLET READ THE NAZI
GERMANY AND ANTI-JEWISH POLICY ON PAGE 113 AND
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN YOUR
ONENOTE UNDER THE SAME PAGE TITLE
PHOTOGRAPH FROM KRISTALLNACHT POGROMBOOKLET AND ONENOTE
1. How do you think a Jewish person might react to all of these
1. Focus on one person in the photograph. What do you think this
2. How do you think a German might react to these policies?
2. Did the person that you are focusing on have a role and
restrictions and laws?
3. What would you imagine the overall atmosphere in Germany to
be during this time?
4. What is the purpose of law?
5. What is the purpose of the Nuremburg Laws?
6. What other laws, if any, do you know about that have
dehumanized people?
person was thinking when this photo was taken?
responsibility for this event? Explain.
3. What would you title this photograph and why?
4. What is someone called who stands by and watches something
happen without offering assistance?
5. Would you say that most of the people in this photograph were
“bystanders”? Explain your answer.
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PYRAMID OF HATE-IN CLASS DISCUSSION-AFTER
CHARTS ARE MADE.
1. Which parts of the pyramid reflects acts by individuals?
2. Which parts of the pyramid reflect state-sponsored acts that
need government support to continue?
3. Did the events on this pyramid always follow an upward
progression or were there instances when the actions would
represent an earlier segment of the pyramid?
4. What are some possible explanation for why this might have
happened?
5. Explain how the Kristallnacht Pogrom represented an
REVEREND MARTIN NIEMOLLER, GERMAN
PROTESTANT -SURVIVOR
“In Germany, they came first for the Communist, and I
didn’t speak up because I was not a Communist. Then
they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I
was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and
I didn’t speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then
they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because
I was Protestant. Then they came for me…and by that
time there was no one left to speak up.”
escalation of anti-Jewish acts.
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE POEM….ONENOTE
1. Why do you think Reverend Niemoller did not “speak up” when Hitler’s
government began its persecution of various groups in Germany?
2. Why do you think it was difficultto oppose the government actions?
3. At what point in the escalation of anti-Jewish policies in Nazi Germany did
non-Jews have a responsibility to interrupt what they saw happening?
4. What actions could they have taken?
5. Do you think it is difficult for individuals to do these kinds of things? Why or
why not?
6. What is the cost to the individual who does not act to interrupt justice?
7. What is the harm to the victims?
8. What is the harm to society?
9. Thinking about the key events that you have learned about in this lesson and
lesson 2, what is your opinion is the power of peer pressure?
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