Alabama Social Studies SS24.HOS.19a
The Standard
- SS24.HOS.19
- Explain the purpose of the Death Marches.
Evaluate the effect of Nazi policies on other groups targeted by the government of Nazi Germany, including the Roma, Sinti, and people with disabilities.*
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · The Final Solution
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace how Nazi officials targeted Roma and Sinti people and people with disabilities. They compare the policies used against each group and explain the effects on people, families, and communities.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain that Roma and Sinti faced registration, deportation, and mass murder. They can explain that people with disabilities faced forced sterilization and organized killing, using evidence for both claims.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume every targeted group faced the same policies or that all victims were sent to camps. They may mistake the Nazi term “euthanasia” for voluntary care rather than state-organized murder.
How to Assess It
- Hand out two brief USHMM excerpts, one on Roma and Sinti deportations and one on the T4 killing program. Ask students to name one policy and one effect for each group, citing a detail from each excerpt.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Have pairs sort printed USHMM excerpts about Roma and Sinti deportations and T4 into policy, immediate harm, and lasting harm columns.
Ask students: How did forced sterilization and deportation harm families differently, and what evidence supports your answer?
Have students match four policy cards to evidence excerpts, then write one sentence explaining each match.
Show photos of Berlin’s Roma and Sinti memorial and T4 memorial, then have students write whose lives each site remembers.
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