Transcript Teaching about Nazi Race Purity Laws and Jim

Elissa Frankle, USHMM, August 2011
•Anti-Jewish Legislation
•Blacks in Nazi Germany
•Nazi Olympics
•Propaganda
•Podcasts
Holocaust Encyclopedia:
“Anti-Jewish Legislation
in Pre-War Germany”
http://www.ushmm.org/
wlc/en/article.php?
ModuleId=10005681
List of selected laws:
http://www.ushmm.org
/wlc/en/article.php?
ModuleId=10007459
How does a country
isolate and exclude a
population of its
citizens?
Africans and AfricanAmericans in
Germany:
http://www.ushmm.org
/wlc/en/article.php?
ModuleId=10005479
Online Exhibit:
http://www.ushmm.org/
museum/exhibit/
online/olympics/
See particularly:
 Boycott
 Olympics
 Timeline of Olympics
vs. rest of Germany
Holocaust Encyclopedia:
“Nazi Olympics, Berlin
1936: African American
Voices and Jim Crow
America”
http://www.ushmm.org/
wlc/en/article.php?
ModuleId=10007088
Full online exhibit:
http://www.ushmm.org/
propaganda/exhibit.
html
How does racism become part of
the daily life and self-concept
of the nation?
Propaganda exhibit: Voices of the Excluded
http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/exhibit.ht
ml#/themes/defining-the-enemy/page2/
What does it mean to be an outsider?
How does propaganda define someone?
What happens when people are defined by
others?
Teaching about Anti-Semitism:
Being an Outsider Group Activity
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/
antisemitism/voices/teaching/outsider/group/
Includes interviews and further resources.
How does injustice move someone from citizen to outcast?
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Jim Crow Museum:
http://www.ferris.edu/
JIMCROW/menu.htm
Southern Poverty Law Center:
http://www.splcenter.org/
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Includes resources on hate incidents
and how to get involved in stopping
them
List of Jim Crow laws, compiled by Martin
Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site
Interpretive Staff:
http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/
jcrow02.htm
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Get involved!
http://online.ushmm.org
/lodzchildren
[email protected]