Analyze the international community’s efforts to hold perpetrators responsible for their involvement in the Holocaust.
Clarifications
Clarification 1: Students will discuss the purpose and outcomes of the Nuremberg Trials and other subsequent trials related to the Holocaust.
Clarification 2: Students will compare arguments by the prosecution and recognize the falsehoods offered by the defense during the Nuremberg Trials (e.g., Justice Robert Jackson’s opening statement, Prosecutor Ben Ferencz’s opening statement, ex post facto laws, non-existent terminology, crimes against humanity, genocide, statute of limitations, jurisdictional issues).
Clarification 3: Students will discuss how members of the international community were complicit in assisting perpetrators’ escape from both Germany and justice following World War II.
Subject Area: Social Studies
Grade: 912
Strand: Holocaust Education
Date Adopted or Revised: 05/24
Status: State Board Approved
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Related Access Points
| Access Point Number |
Access Point Title |
| SS.912.HE.3.AP.1 | Describe the international community’s efforts to hold perpetrators responsible for their involvement in the Holocaust. |
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Lesson Plan
| Name |
Description |
| Nuremberg Trials and Human Rights Worldwide | In this lesson, students will be introduced to the proceedings and verdicts of the Nuremberg trials. Students will also focus on the impact of the trials on human rights worldwide. |
