Alabama Social Studies SS24.HOS.14a
The Standard
- SS24.HOS.14
- Identify and summarize the key characteristics of the Final Solution, and describe how it was driven by Nazi ideology.*
Explain the purpose and scope of the Wannsee Conference in 1942.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · The Final Solution
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain that Nazi officials met to coordinate the deportation and murder of Jews across Europe. They use the meeting record to show that the plans included Jews in countries Germany did not control. They recognize that mass killings had already begun.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student uses the meeting record's country list to explain why the plans extended across Europe. They can explain that the meeting coordinated government agencies rather than starting the genocide.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think officials decided to begin the genocide at this meeting, though mass shootings were already underway. Others think the plans covered only Jews in Germany or people already in camps.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Why did Nazi officials meet in January 1942, and what does the country list in the meeting record show about their plans? Explain why the meeting was not the start of the killings.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a January 1942 map and the meeting record's country list; have them mark listed countries outside Nazi control.
Ask: Why were several government offices involved? Have students support an answer with one line from the translated meeting record.
Have pairs order three cards: 1941 mass shootings, January 1942 meeting, summer 1942 deportations. Ask what the order disproves.
Read a USHMM account of a 1942 deportation, then underline one detail showing how government orders reached a family.
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Related Standards
- SS24.HOS.18a
Evaluate American and Allied officials’ knowledge of and response to the Final Solution.
- SS24.WH.11b
Trace how the Nazis’ plan for the European Jews evolved from 1933 to the Final Solution.
- SS24.HOS.19
Explain the purpose of the Death Marches.
- SS24.HOS.10
Summarize the German T4 (“euthanasia”) Program, including its origins and purposes, and explain how it contributed to the Final Solution.*
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