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Good Afternoon !!. NVC The Holocaust: Group work Essential Question : How did th e Holocaust happen ? Homework : Work on Final Project. Liberating Europe: July 1944-April 1945. The Holocaust.
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Good Afternoon!! • NVC • The Holocaust: Group work Essential Question: How did the Holocaust happen? Homework: Work on Final Project
The Holocaust "There we found sights, sounds, and stenches horrible beyond belief, cruelties so enormous as to be incomprehensible to the normal mind”—Colonel William Quinn, at Dachau
Legacy of the Holocaust • 14 Million people killed in a Genocide • 6 million Jews • Nuremberg Trials • Military trials by Allies to prosecute Nazis for war crimes • Birth of international criminal law and crimes against humanity
How did the Holocaust happen? • In your group, please READ each primary source document ONE AT A TIME. For each document, DISCUSS each question on the document AS A GROUP and ANSWER the questions in complete sentences on a separate piece of paper. EACH PERSON MUST WRITE DOWN ANSWERS to the questions. • Your group is to prepare a MONUMENT to the Holocaust explaining how it happened. Your Holocaust Monument will include both a POSTER and PRESENTATION explaining the information contained in the documents.