Alabama Social Studies SS24.HOS.16a
The Standard
- 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.*
Analyze how corporate complicity aided Nazi goals.*
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · The Final Solution
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students examine records showing what businesses did for the Nazi regime. They explain how forced labor and equipment contracts supported the camp system.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can explain IG Farben's use of prisoner labor at Monowitz and Topf & Söhne's supply of cremation ovens to Auschwitz-Birkenau. They cite records for each claim and separate documented actions from guesses about motives.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume every company was forced to cooperate, or that every employee knew the full plan. Some confuse cremation ovens with gas chambers or treat forced labor and mass murder as the same process.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: IG Farben used prisoner labor at Monowitz, and Topf & Söhne supplied cremation ovens to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Explain how each action supported the Nazi camp system.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs printed IG Farben labor records and Topf & Söhne oven orders; have them annotate each company's action and its effect.
Ask students to write: What does a Topf & Söhne oven order prove, and what does it not prove about leaders' motives?
Play claim-evidence match with cards for company actions, source excerpts, and effects on prisoners; require partners to defend each match aloud.
Show Apple's supplier code ban on forced labor; ask students which conduct in an IG Farben labor record that rule aims to prevent.
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