Alabama Social Studies SS24.HOS.16

SS24.HOS.16 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.HOS.16a

  Analyze how corporate complicity aided Nazi goals.*

01

What Students Need to Do

Students use historical evidence to explain how people and companies helped carry out Nazi policies or failed to intervene. They compare each person's choices, power, and effect on Jewish people and other targeted groups.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Given a short account, students can distinguish a bystander from someone who aided or carried out persecution. They can explain how IG Farben used forced labor at Auschwitz-Monowitz and identify who benefited and who was harmed.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may treat a bystander and a person who organized deportations as equally responsible, without examining what each did. They may assume companies had no choice or that using forced labor was separate from Nazi policy.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Explain how a bystander differs from a collaborator. Then use IG Farben at Auschwitz-Monowitz to show how a company aided Nazi goals.

1. 01

   Give pairs four brief accounts of choices during deportations and forced labor; have them sort by role and underline evidence for each choice.

2. 02

   Ask: How did IG Farben's use of forced labor differ from a neighbor's silence during a deportation?

3. 03

   Post three action cards: staying silent, identifying a Jewish neighbor, and organizing deportations; students name each role and one consequence.

4. 04

   Print a current company's forced-labor policy; students list records needed to test its claims, then explain why historical cases need their own evidence.

• SS24.HOS.2b

  Analyze how the Nazi regime utilized and built on historical antisemitism to cast the Jewish people as a common enemy.*

• SS24.HOS.19a

  Evaluate the effect of Nazi policies on other groups targeted by the government of Nazi Germany, including the Roma, Sinti, and people with disabilities.*

• SS24.HOS.8b

  Critique American and world responses to the November pogrom (Kristallnacht) and the persecution of Jews in Germany and Nazi-controlled territories.