Primary Source Archives
This site contains different guides that can be used to view primary sources from topics such as: war crimes (i.e. Nuremberg Trial Minutes), looted art, prisoner of war records, military records, and many, many more. The site, being from the United Kingdom, will give the students a different perspective to the event than what they are used to. In other words, the students will get a different perspective of the casualties and methods of war than the American view they are familiar with.
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This site features thousands of primary sources documents of the Holocaust. It contains pictures, documents, video testimonials, and even a place to search for loved ones that could have been lost during the Holocaust period of Nazi prosecution. The site offers a course that can be taken (for a fee) as well as a e-newsletter that they can receive if they wish. The site is user friendly and users may use the search function if there is something in particular they are looking for.
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This site offers a plethora of materials for students and educators alike. There are a wide variety of primary sources that include pictures, documents, and videos created by soldiers, survivors, victims, and civilians. The site also contains lesson plans for teachers to utilize in the classroom. Students can learn about the atrocities of the Holocaust, remember the victims who were prosecuted, and learn to confront antisemitism and genocide that is occurring in their own history.
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This site offers primary source documents that include speeches, eye witness accounts of German history, images, German satirical magazines, and many more. The speeches are given by figures such as Adolf Hitler and Albert Einstein in German, but the is a English transcript provided. It contains many other German documents such as their declaration of war on the United States, the Wannsee-- which described the Final Solution, etc. translated in English so students read the material and get a better understanding of life in Germany during WWII.
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The Nazi party used propaganda to gain support and following. They used it to gain positive views of the war, glorify the power of Hitler, spread antisemitism, and to get citizens to dedicate their time to the war effort. This archive allows viewers to view a wide variety of different propaganda posters used by the Nazi party as well as descriptions about what the posters meant.
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Lesson Plans Utilizing Primary Sources
Nazi PropagandaThis lesson plan gets students thinking about how the Nazi Party used propaganda to convince 99% of Germans to vote in favor of the annexation of Austria
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U.S. Enters the WarThis lesson explores the U.S. entering the war. It contains political cartoons students are to analyze. The students also read the "Day of Infamy" speech given by FDR after the attack of Pearl Harbor on 12/07/1941 and compare it to the "Day of Infamy" speech given by George W. Bush after the 09/11 terrorist attacks.
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Document Analysis Tools
The 6 C's of Primary Source Analysis
With this tool, students can really get an understanding on what they should be looking for in a primary source. By following these steps, students can really analyze a document and find its meaning. I will use the poster located on the right to demonstrate how one would utilize this tool.
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Map Analysis Worksheet |
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The worksheet to the left (Map Analysis Worksheet) will better allow students to look at a map from the past and decipher what it represents. The above images both show the same thing-- Pearl Harbor in 1941. The image on the left shows a map recovered from a Japanese plane after the attack, and the one on the right is an American map. Using the map analysis worksheet, the students can figure out the importance of the map to their unit of study by using critical thinking skills and their prior knowledge. The students simply follow the steps on the worksheet and should be able to uncover after answering all the questions that the Japanese map above was used by a Japanese pilot during the attack on Pearl Harbor which ultimately brought the United States into WWII.
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