Oklahoma Social Studies TOT.C.7.2
The Standard
Explain the effect of Nazi policies on other targeted groups, including Roma-Sinti, Slavs, Jehovah’s Witnesses, political opponents, the physically and mentally disabled, and homosexuals.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify Nazi policies aimed at Roma and Sinti, Slavs, Jehovah’s Witnesses, political opponents, people with disabilities, and men accused of homosexuality. They explain how those policies harmed people, using evidence to show that groups faced different forms of persecution.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can explain how forced sterilization harmed people with disabilities and how arrests affected Jehovah’s Witnesses who refused Nazi demands. They can also describe forced labor imposed on Slavs and the mass murder of Roma and Sinti, without treating the groups as interchangeable.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think every targeted group faced the same policy or that persecution began only when people entered camps. They may mistake forced sterilization for medical care rather than a forced measure that prevented people from having children.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: How did Nazi forced sterilization affect people with disabilities, and what happened to Jehovah’s Witnesses who refused military service? Give one effect for each.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs printed source excerpts on forced sterilization, political arrests, and Paragraph 175; have them highlight each policy and its effects.
Ask students to write three sentences comparing the persecution of political opponents and men accused of homosexuality, using one source detail for each.
Have teams match policy, targeted group, and effect cards, allowing more than one match where the sources support it.
Have students write a 40-word museum label based on a US Holocaust Memorial Museum article about Roma and Sinti, naming one policy and its effect.
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