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Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Bystanders

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After the Holocaust, the world grappled with how to bring justice to the Nazis. But what to do with the thousands—if not millions—who allowed it to happen? Young historians consider the issues of guilt, collaboration, and responsibility using survivor testimony, primary sources from Nazi war crime trials, and secondary sources.

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Concepts

holocaust survivors, the holocaust, antisemitism, the nuremberg trials, genocide, war crimes, adolf hitler, nazism, primary source analysis, primary source images, primary sources

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social studies

Instructional Ideas

Use primary sources to discuss why so many collaborated in the Holocaust
Extend learning by asking pupils to compare the response to the Holocaust to the response to the genocide in Rwanda

Classroom Considerations

Resource is the ninth installment of the 11-part Teaching the Holocaust series
Unit is a three-part plan

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Survivor testimony is rich and gripping
Discussion questions are ready to use in class

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None

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