Alabama Social Studies SS24.HOS.7b
The Standard
- SS24.HOS.7
- Describe how Jewish life deteriorated under the Third Reich in Germany and its annexed territories from 1933 to 1938.*
Evaluate the effects of the Nuremberg Laws on Jewish life in Germany.*
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Nazi Antisemitic and Racial Policies
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how the 1935 laws took citizenship from Jewish people in Germany and barred marriages between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans. They connect those legal changes to choices people could make and rights they could exercise.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can read a short law excerpt and name the right it removed. They can explain why a Jewish resident could no longer claim the same legal standing as a non-Jewish neighbor, and why a planned marriage might be prohibited.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think the laws banned all contact between Jewish and non-Jewish people, or ended marriages that already existed. They may also attribute every later Nazi restriction to these two 1935 laws.
How to Assess It
- Give students short excerpts on citizenship and marriage. Ask: What would change for a Jewish resident who planned to marry a non-Jewish German neighbor in 1935? Name two effects.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs two law excerpts and four situation cards to sort under citizenship, marriage, or neither.
Ask students to write three sentences on how losing citizenship could change a Jewish family's relationship with the state.
Read four claims aloud; students use mini whiteboards to mark whether each follows from the 1935 laws or describes a later restriction.
Show a voter registration form beside the citizenship law; ask students how losing citizenship changes a person's political voice.
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Related Standards
- SS24.HOS.7
Describe how Jewish life deteriorated under the Third Reich in Germany and its annexed territories from 1933 to 1938.*
- 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.*
- 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.8a
Assess how the destruction of Jewish cultural and religious institutions affected German Jews.
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