Alabama Social Studies SS24.HOS.7d
The Standard
- SS24.HOS.7
- Describe how Jewish life deteriorated under the Third Reich in Germany and its annexed territories from 1933 to 1938.*
Assess how German Jews reacted to increasing exclusion and isolation in German society between 1933 and 1939 and describe the strategies they employed both to leave Germany and to enlist help from non-Jews 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 German Jews responded as boycotts, laws, and violence narrowed daily life from 1933 to 1939. They describe efforts to leave Germany and ways they sought help from non-Jewish friends and neighbors.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can connect a dated restriction to a response, such as setting up Jewish classes after exclusion from public schools. They can explain why a family might seek a visa, ask a neighbor for help, and still be unable to leave.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume families could leave as soon as they felt threatened, without money, documents, or a country willing to admit them. Some assume all families made the same choices or that all non-Jewish neighbors responded alike.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A Jewish family in 1938 wants to leave Germany but has no visa. Name one step toward leaving, one way a non-Jewish friend could help now, and one barrier the family might face.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards showing the 1933 boycott, 1935 citizenship laws, and 1938 attacks; have them add a possible family response to each.
Ask: What could a non-Jewish neighbor do for a family waiting for a visa, and what could that help not fix?
Have teams match response cards labeled Jewish classes, visa application, and neighbor's help to cards showing school exclusion, emigration barriers, and daily isolation.
Compare a current passport document list with a 1938 U.S. visa checklist; circle requirements that could delay a family's departure.
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Related Standards
- SS24.HOS.13a
Identify tactics utilized by the Nazis to control, isolate, and weaken Jewish people in the ghettos.
- SS24.HOS.9
Describe how Jewish immigration was perceived and restricted by various nations from 1933 to 1939.*
- SS24.HOS.7
Describe how Jewish life deteriorated under the Third Reich in Germany and its annexed territories from 1933 to 1938.*
- SS24.HOS.8a
Assess how the destruction of Jewish cultural and religious institutions affected German Jews.
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