¢Essay: Choose an argument or theme below. For each section in your organizer, find information or evidence that supports your idea. Each section should have 2-3 examples from the readings. Each section should show what laws changed or what people did during that stage of the Holocaust. (100 points for notes in organizer, 100 points for the essay!!)
Topic #1: Slippery Slope: This is a metaphor for how one thing leads to another until there is no turning back;
Topic #1: Slippery Slope: This is a metaphor for how one thing leads to another until there is no turning back;
¢ The Holocaust was not an accident in history. It occurred because people, organizations, and governments made choices which not only legalized discrimination, but which allowed prejudice, hatred, and mass murder to occur. What factors played a role in perpetuating the situation in Germany during WWII? Who was responsible? How might YOU have behaved if YOU were living in Germany during WWII? How can we be sure that this type of situation doesn’t occur in the United States? Who is responsible in our country if it does? What can you do to help?
Topic #2: Silence and indifference to the suffering of others or to the infringement of civil rights in any society can, albeit unintentionally, perpetuate the problems. We see similar issues (give examples) in high schools across the nation with peer pressure. Correlate this issue on a broader scale to examine how YOU might have behaved if YOU were living in Germany during WWII.
Topic #3: Democratic institutions and values were not automatically sustained. Describe the breakdown of laws and institutions, rights, and freedoms in Germany. Upon whose shoulders does the responsibility of keeping just laws and fair representation and democracy fall? What made Germany stop as a democracy? How were ordinary citizens responsible for keeping a democracy? For protecting Jews and other minorities from discrimination and danger?
Topic #2: Silence and indifference to the suffering of others or to the infringement of civil rights in any society can, albeit unintentionally, perpetuate the problems. We see similar issues (give examples) in high schools across the nation with peer pressure. Correlate this issue on a broader scale to examine how YOU might have behaved if YOU were living in Germany during WWII.
Topic #3: Democratic institutions and values were not automatically sustained. Describe the breakdown of laws and institutions, rights, and freedoms in Germany. Upon whose shoulders does the responsibility of keeping just laws and fair representation and democracy fall? What made Germany stop as a democracy? How were ordinary citizens responsible for keeping a democracy? For protecting Jews and other minorities from discrimination and danger?
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