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The History Place

The History Place: Auschwitz Today

For Students 9th - 10th
The History Place provides a virtual slide show of photos taken from a walking tour of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp.
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The History Place

The History Place: Statistics of the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
This page from The History Place has a chart with the number of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust. Nearly 6 million Jewish people were murdered. This site is disturbing its apparent accuracy of the Jewish slaughter.
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The History Place

The History Place: The Nuremberg Race Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides a short explanation of the Nuremberg Laws during Hitler's reign. Site shows a chart issued by the Nazis to help distinguish Jews from Germans of mixed race.
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Ibis Communications

Eyewitness to History: The Fall of Berlin, 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of the Soviet takeover of Berlin in 1945. Presents an actual report of a war torn city and people starving, huddled in their houses as the army approached.
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The History Place

The History Place: Hitler Joins German Workers' Party

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides information about Hitler and the German Workers' (Nazi) Party. The information is medium in length and is worth checking out for more info on the subject.
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The History Place

The History Place: The Rise of Adolf Hitler: Hitler Named Chancellor

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the events surrounding Hitler being sworn in as Chancellor.
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Other

Scrapbookpages.com: The City of Nurnberg

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Scrapbookpages.com provides information about Nurnberg, the unofficial capital of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Famous people who lived and worked in Nurnberg (e.g., the artist Albrecht Durer) are...
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Reinhard Heydrich

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed biography of "the Hangman" of World War II Nazi Germany.
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Other

The National Socialist Party in Third Reich Germany

For Students 9th - 10th
An American journalist's interview with Himmler about the National Socialist Party.
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Drancy Concentration Camp

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes what the Drancy concentration/death camp in France was like during WWII.
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The History Place

The History Place: Hitler Named Leader of Nazi Party

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides information about Hitler's leadership when he is named leader of the Nazi party in 1921. This is a good site to check out on the subject.
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The History Cat

The History Cat: Invasion of Poland: Appeasement and Nazi Aggression

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the events leading up to the invasion of Poland and how it occurred.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Holocaust Encyclopedia

For Students 9th - 10th
Browsable directory of encyclopedia articles on topics related to the Holocaust, with accompanying rich-media material (photos, maps, historical films, audio clips, etc.) available for particular topics. A full complement of articles is...
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Other

Calvin College: Nazi Propaganda From 1933 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
This site documents Nazi propaganda during the time period 1933-1945. Includes tons of detailed information and links.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Enabling Act

For Students 9th - 10th
Yad Vashem provides information on the Nazi Enabling Act of 1933, which gave Hitler's government dictatorial powers for four year.
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Other

Simon Wiesenthal Center: About Simon Wiesenthal

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, prepared for the web site of the foundation that carries his name and whose ongoing work is one of bringing Nazi perpetrators to justice.
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National Archives (UK)

National Archives Learning Curve: Hitler

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Three 1937 reports speak to the potential problems of a Hitler-led Germany. Primary source documents, cartoons, and historical documents address the question, "Was Hitler a passionate lunatic?" in this series of performance tasks.
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A&E Television

History.com: World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive look at World War II including video clips and audio clips of important speeches by the world leaders of the time.
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Other

Master of Death: Reinhard Heydrich

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information about the Nazi leader, Reinhard Heydrich, including a number of pictures of Heydrich and victims of the Holocaust.
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Internet FAQ Archive

Faq Archives: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society: Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at the devastating impact of the Holocaust and concentration camps on Jewish families and children. Some material is quite graphic and difficult to read, as it describes the cruelty the Nazis inflicted on Jewish people.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Short Biography of Hitler

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Utah Education Network provides condensed biographical information on Adolf Hitler. Includes two discussion questions.
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Other

Calvin College: Nazi and East German Propaganda

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of visual and printed propaganda material from 1933 to 1989 centers around the rise of the Nazi Party, World War II from the Nazi perspective, and East German Communism.
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Curated OER

Unesco: Poland: Auschwitz Birkenau

For Students 9th - 10th
The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the...