Oklahoma Social Studies TOT.C.7.3
The Standard
Examine the role that bystanders, collaborators and perpetrators played in the implementation of Nazi policies against Jewish people and other targeted groups.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use accounts and records to identify what people did during arrests, deportations, and killings. They explain how those actions affected Jewish people, Roma people, and disabled people. They note what the sources cannot show.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how a clerk's train schedule enabled deportation and how an officer's arrest directly enforced it. They cite evidence and avoid guessing what a neighbor who watched knew or could safely do.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think only people who used violence helped carry out persecution. They may call a transport clerk a passive observer because the clerk made no arrests. They may assume a neighbor who saw an arrest knew the full plan or could safely intervene.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: “A clerk schedules deportation trains. A neighbor watches police arrest a family.” Explain each person's role, then name one fact you need before judging the neighbor's choices.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs three cards showing a clerk scheduling deportation trains, an officer arresting families, and a neighbor watching; sort roles and flag missing evidence.
Ask students to write two sentences about what a watching neighbor's actions show and what more they would need to judge their choices.
Run a source match with four brief witness excerpts and four action cards; pairs must cite a phrase before keeping each match.
Show a museum scan of a deportation list; ask which jobs produced it and how the list affected named families.
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Related Standards
- TOT.C.5.2
Examine how identification, legal, and economic status was used to perpetuate the Nazi ideology of the “Master Race” and target Jews.
- TOT.C.5.4
Analyze the effects of Kristallnacht and how it became a watershed event in the transition from targeted persecution to open, public violence against Jews.
- MWH.C.6.6.C
Examine the effects of the Shoah through eyewitness accounts from victims, survivors, liberators, and perpetrators.
- TOT.C.5.6
Examine the choices and actions of individuals and groups defying Nazi policy at great personal risk.
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