Oklahoma Social Studies TOT.C.7.6
The Standard
Explain the purpose of the Wannsee Conference and its role in the Final Solution.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain why Nazi officials met in January 1942: to coordinate the deportation and murder of Europe's Jews across government offices. They place the meeting within a genocide that was already underway.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name a government office represented at the meeting and explain why several offices were involved. They can use the meeting record and a 1941 mass shooting to show that the killing did not begin at Wannsee.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think Nazi leaders first decided to kill Jews at this meeting. They may read words such as “evacuation” as harmless, or assume only the SS was involved.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: In two sentences, explain what the January 1942 meeting coordinated and why it did not mark the start of Nazi mass murder.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs event cards for 1941 mass shootings and the January 1942 meeting; have them build a timeline and mark what changed.
Ask: Why meet in January 1942 if mass killings had already begun? Have students cite one event from the timeline.
Give students three short Wannsee Protocol excerpts to match with plain-language descriptions of the policies discussed.
Open a museum's online copy of the Wannsee Protocol; have students use its attendee list to identify two government offices involved.
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