Oklahoma Social Studies TOT.C.7.5
The Standard
Explain how corporate complicity aided Nazi goals, including identification and record keeping, and the use of slave labor for war production.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Explain how companies helped Nazi officials identify and track people through records and data tools. Describe how companies used forced labor to make goods for the war.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how punch-card systems helped officials sort population records, without claiming the machines caused persecution on their own. They can use Krupp as an example of forced labor in weapons production.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think only Nazi officials handled records or used forced workers. They may mistake forced labor for paid factory work, or treat punch cards as the cause of persecution.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A company supplied machines to sort population records. Krupp used forced workers to make weapons. How did each action aid Nazi goals?
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs source cards on punch-card records and Krupp labor, then have them draw arrows linking each company action to a Nazi goal.
Ask students to write: What choices did company leaders make, and what evidence shows that those choices helped Nazi officials?
Run a card sort matching punch-card sales, population records, forced labor, and weapons output to their effects.
Inspect a blank school registration form for sensitive fields, then name one rule that could keep those records from being misused.
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Related Standards
- TOT.C.7.3
Examine the role that bystanders, collaborators and perpetrators played in the implementation of Nazi policies against Jewish people and other targeted groups.
- 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.4.3
Analyze how the Nazi regime utilized and built on historical antisemitism to create a common enemy of the Jews in order to gain power.
- TOT.C.8.3.D
cooperation with Nazi Germany (e.g., Nazi-Soviet pact, Soviet annexations and population deportations, the Winter War,the Katyn massacre)
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