Alabama Social Studies SS24.HOS.12

SS24.HOS.12 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.HOS.12a

  Locate on a map the Einsatzgruppen killing sites in Eastern Europe.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain how mobile killing units carried out mass shootings in occupied Eastern Europe. They identify how SS personnel, police, some army units, and local collaborators assisted. They locate shooting sites on a map.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student locates Babyn Yar near Kyiv, Ponary near Vilnius, and Rumbula near Riga. They explain how Jewish people and other targeted groups were rounded up and shot, using evidence to name the groups involved at a site.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think these killings happened only in camps or that the killing squads acted alone. They may assume every army unit or local resident took part, rather than checking who participated at each site.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Mark Babyn Yar near Kyiv on a blank map. In two sentences, explain how the shootings were carried out and name two groups that assisted.

1. 01

   Place sticky-note labels for Babyn Yar, Ponary, and Rumbula on a blank Eastern Europe map, then write the nearby city beside each.

2. 02

   Read a USHMM account of Babyn Yar and ask: Which groups gathered victims, secured the site, or carried out the shootings?

3. 03

   Give pairs role cards for killing squads, SS units, police, army units, and local collaborators; match cards to documented actions in short site accounts.

4. 04

   Find the Babyn Yar memorial on a current Kyiv map and compare its location with a wartime map.

• SS24.HOS.5c

  Analyze how the Schutzstaffel (SS) and the Gestapo broke resistance and instilled fear within Germany and in Nazi-occupied territories.*

• SS24.HOS.17a

  Explain how and why Jewish partisans undertook armed resistance against the Germans and their Axis partners.

• SS24.HOS.16

  Critique the role that bystanders, collaborators, and perpetrators played in the implementation of Nazi policies against Jewish people and other targeted groups...