Alabama Social Studies SS24.HOS.6c
The Standard
- SS24.HOS.6
- Explain how Nazis’ racial beliefs were representative of their overall worldview.*
Assess how the Nazis’ antisemitism and racial beliefs influenced their foreign policy.*
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · The Rise of Hitler and the Nazis
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how Nazi racial beliefs shaped the push for land in eastern Europe. They connect invasion and occupation to the persecution of Jews and the forced removal and labor of other people the Nazis considered inferior.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can link the invasion of the Soviet Union to Nazi plans for German settlement and racial rule. They can explain how conquest enabled mass shootings of Jews in occupied territory.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think Nazi antisemitism affected only laws inside Germany. Others see the invasions as only military moves and miss how racial beliefs shaped plans for conquered land and its people.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: How did Nazi racial beliefs shape both the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union and what happened to Jews in occupied territory? Give one specific example of each.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a map of eastern Europe; have them mark the invasions of Poland and the Soviet Union, then locate the Warsaw ghetto and Babi Yar.
Ask students to write: Why did Nazi leaders want land in the east, and how did their racial beliefs shape occupation?
Play a card match using German settlement, invasion of Poland, antisemitism, and the Warsaw ghetto; require students to explain each pair.
Compare a 1938 Évian Conference summary with a current UNHCR refugee map; ask how borders affected Jewish refugees then and refugees now.
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