Alabama Social Studies SS24.HOS.21b
The Standard
- SS24.HOS.21
- Evaluate the extent to which the legal responses, including the Nuremberg Trials, held Nazi officials to account for war crimes and crimes against humanity.*
Analyze the influence of the Holocaust on the drafting and substance of the 1948 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Post-War
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect Nazi persecution and the Holocaust to the reasons UN delegates drafted a rights declaration after World War II. They use the declaration’s preamble and specific articles to explain which abuses the document addresses.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can link the Nazi removal of Jewish citizenship to Article 15 on nationality and explain the link with evidence. They can also explain that the Holocaust shaped the declaration alongside other wartime abuses, rather than claiming it was the only cause.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think the declaration names the Holocaust or was written only in response to it. Some may treat it as a law that immediately stopped abuses, rather than a statement of shared rights.
How to Assess It
- Give students the declaration’s preamble and Article 15. Ask: How might Nazi policies toward Jewish citizenship help explain why delegates included this right? Use one detail from each source.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards naming Nazi policies and cards with Articles 2, 3, 5, and 15. Have them match cards and defend two links.
Ask students to write three sentences: What wartime problem does the preamble point to, and why might delegates have written it that way?
Run a source-match game: read a short account of an abuse, then have teams choose the article that addresses it.
Compare a current news report about people denied citizenship with Article 15, then ask students to name one similarity and one difference.
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