1. DICTATORSHIP UNDER THE THIRD REICH EARLY STAGE OF PERSECUTION THE FIRST CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1933-1939

2. World War II in Europe Murder of the Disabled Persecution and Murder of Jews Ghettos Mobile Killing Squads Expansion of the Concentration Camp System Killing Centers Additional Victims of Nazi Persecution Resistance Rescue United States/World Response Death Marches Liberation 1939-1945

3. POSTWAR TRIALS DISPLACED PERSONS CAMPS AND EMIGRATION Post 1945

4. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Maya Angelou

5. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum recommends that you introduce your students to these topics as an essential part of providing students with the sense of the breadth of the history of the Holocaust.

6. The world is too dangerous to live in– not because of the people who do evil, but because of the people who sit and let it happen. Albert Einstein

7. WHY TEACH THE HOLOCAUST? Advice and Thinking from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and www.adlit.orgwww.adlit.org

8. THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN TEACHING THE HOLOCAUST From the United States Holocaust Museum

9. LINKS IN A CHAIN AGREE/DISAGREE Are we linked together? Are we all connected? Write your thinking on a strip of paper and link it to the chain.

10. WHEN YOU THINK OF THE LONG AND GLOOMY HISTORY OF MAN, YOU FIND MORE HIDEOUS CRIMES HAVE BEEN COMMITTED IN THE NAME OF OBEDIENCE THAN HAVE EVER BEEN COMMITTED IN THE NAME OF REBELLION. C.P. Snow

11. EACH TIME A MAN STANDS UP FOR AN IDEAL, OR ACTS TO IMPROVE THE LOT OF OTHERS, OR STRIKES OUT AGAINST INJUSTICE, HE SENDS FORTH A TINY RIPPLE OF HOPE. Robert F. Kennedy