- Can normal people commit horrendous acts?
- When do people refuse to follow orders?
- How do men and women's actions compare in the Milgram Experiment?
Sunday, October 11, 2015
ABC Channel's Milgram Experiment remake
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Day 2: Additional Resources
Additional resources discussed during Day 2 class session.Books:
Browning, Christopher R. Ordinary Men.
Hilberg, Raul. Destruction of the European Jews.
Jaffe, Nina. "A Bird in the Hand," While Standing on One Foot.
Kurzem, Mark. The Mascot.
Spiegelman, Art. MetaMaus.
Readers' Theater:
Shear, Susan Prinz. No Way Out: Readers' Theatre.
Videos:
Ambulans (The Ambulance) (Alden Films, c1961)
Democrat and the Dictator (Paramount, c1991)
The Devil's Arithmetic (Showtime, c1999)
Frontline: The Longest Hatred: A Revealing History of Anti-Semitism (WGBH, c2004)
Music Box (Lions Gate, c2003)
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days (Zeitgeist, c2004)
The World At War: Genocide (A&E, c1995, 2004))
Website:
Ambulans (The Ambulance) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc1d1eDcUlk
Kristallnacht
Website: http://educate.intel.com/workspace/teacher/projectlisting.aspx?LID=en&tid=seIntel Visual Ranking Activity:
Project Description: Pre-Kristallnacht Events:
Kristallnacht (Nov. 9-10, 1938) was a crucial turning point in Germany regarding Nazi policy toward Jews. It may be considered as the beginning of what is now called the Holocaust. Hitler came into power in 1933 with a plan to expand Germany's rule and to annihilate the world's Jews. Events leading up to Kristallnacht were ripe with new laws which regulated Jewish life and persecuted Jews in Germany, quickly stripping them of their freedom.
Prompt: Why was there no widespread civil protest about the events of Kristallnacht? Rank the following events, which preceded Kristallnacht, from most important to least important as to their impact on setting the stage for Kristallnacht.
Aryanization of Jewish property
Boycott of Jewish shops
Burning of books
Enabling Act
Jewish passports marked with J
Name changes to Israel and Sarah
Nazi Party declared only legal party
Nuremberg Laws
Polish Jews deported from Germany
DVD: Kristallnacht: The Night of Shattered Glass: Remembering 70 Years Later (Beachwood, Ohio, c2008)
Kindertransport
On the eve of WWII, as millions of Jews were seeking refuge from Nazi persecution, country after country turned their backs - all except Great Britain who opened their doors to an unspecified number of Jewish children in danger. Their parents were left to embark on a different journey - one that took many of them to concentration camps. Most of these children never saw their parents again.
DVD: My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports (On loan from the Leibovitz Special Collection).
Invasion of Poland
Invasion of Poland:On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.
Website: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/gallery_fi.php?ModuleId=10005070
Before WWII, Polish Jewry numbered 3.3 million, whereas post-war numbers totaled 240,000, a figure which had fallen to 9,000 after 1970. A total of 5.5 million people were murdered in camps in Poland: of these 4 million were of Jewish origin, 3 million being Polish Jews.
Essential Questions
How did Poland's national consciousness, stemming from a history of foreign suppression and intervention, make it susceptible to anti-Semitic influences from neighboring countries? In the study of national histories, how important are the actions of government officials compared to actions of "the people"?
ActionT4
Action T4 was the name used after World War II for Nazi Germany's Eugenics-based euthanasia program during which physicians killed thousands of people who were considered "incurably sick, by critical medical examination." The program officially ran from September 1939 until August 1941, but it continued unofficially until the end of the Nazi regime in 1945.Book: T4: A Novel by Ann Clare LeZotte (c2008)
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