Alabama Social Studies SS24.HOS.1
The Standard
Defend the definition of the Holocaust as the planned and systematic state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945.*
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use dated records to explain who was targeted, who organized the persecution and killing, and when it happened. They defend their answer against claims that leave out Jews, state planning, collaborators, or the prewar years.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can connect the 1935 Nuremberg Laws to state persecution and 1941 Einsatzgruppen reports to organized killing. They can explain that mass murder did not begin in 1933 and that the Nazis also persecuted other groups.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may use the term for every group the Nazis persecuted, missing the specific genocide of European Jews. They may think mass killing began in 1933 or describe it as unplanned violence by individual soldiers.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Revise the claim, “The Holocaust was random wartime violence against all Europeans.” Name the targeted group, the state role, collaborators, the place and years, and one supporting fact.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Place excerpts from the 1935 Nuremberg Laws, 1941 Einsatzgruppen reports, and 1942 deportation records on a classroom timeline.
Write a two-sentence reply to someone who says the Holocaust began only when World War II started; cite one prewar law.
Give pairs six source cards from Nazi laws, deportation records, and collaborator orders to match with claims about the Holocaust.
Draft a museum exhibit label for visitors that identifies European Jews, Nazi authorities and collaborators, and the 1933 to 1945 timeline.
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Related Standards
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Trace how the Nazis’ plan for the European Jews evolved from 1933 to the Final Solution.
- SS24.HOS.2b
Analyze how the Nazi regime utilized and built on historical antisemitism to cast the Jewish people as a common enemy.*
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