WWII Newscast Topics/Subtopics and Resources

1. Problems in Germany leading up to the war

a. The Treaty of Versailles (WWI treaty)
b. Economic crisis
c. Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch
d. Collapse of the Weimar Republic
i. Impact of Treaty of Versailes
ii. German Economy 1919-1923
iii. The Beer Hall Putsch
iv. German economy in the 1920’s
v. More on Versailles impact
vi. Aftermath of WWI
vii. Weimar Germany
viii. Weimar Republic
2. The 1933 election and the various political powers involved
a.Herman Goering and the election
b.German Communist Party (KPD) and other political parties involved
c.The burning of the Reichstag
d.Outcome/Impact of the Election
i. The Reichstag Fire
ii. The Burning of the Reichstag
iii. Election results
iv. KPD
v. German political parties of 1930s
vi. Goering and the election
3. The rise of the Nazi party and its popularity
a.The formation of the Nazi party
b. Mein Kampf
c. 1936 Olympics
d. Hitler’s takeover of the government
i.Nazi Party is formed
ii. Mein Kampf and the Rise of Hitler
iii. Germans elect Nazis-1930
iv. Hitler becomes dictator
v. Hitler’s rise in popularity
vi. Timeline
vii. Dictatorship under Hitler
viii. The Nazi Olympics
ix. Berlin Olympics, 1936
4. Jewish life in Europe before the war
a. Jews in Eastern Europe (Poland, Hungary, Romania, etc.)
b. Jews in Western Europe (France, Germany, Netherlands, etc.)
c. The Evian Conference
 d. Anti-Semitism in Europe before the war
i.Jewish Communities of pre-war Germany
ii. Pre-war Jewish population data
iii. Jewish businesses
iv. Overview
v. Photos
vi. Personal histories
vii. Evian Conference
viii. Anti-Semitism
5. The Erosion of Jews’ Rights and the Nuremberg Race Laws
a. Anti-Jewish laws and regulations
b.”Reich Citizenship Law” / Nuremberg Laws
c."Law for the Protection of the Hereditary Health of the German People"/”Law for the
Protection of German Blood and German Honor” / Pro-Arian propoganda and
thought
d. Who is a full Jew?
i.The History Place
ii.Holocaust Museum
iii.Nuremberg Laws
iv. Anti-Jewish legislation in Pre-War Germany
v. This Day in History
vi. Translation of Nuremberg Laws
vii. Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor
viii. Reich Citizenship Law
ix. Timeline of erosion of Jews’ rights
6. Kristallnacht
a. Pogroms
b. Nazi justification for Kristallnacht/Herschel Grynszpan
c. Nov.9-10 events
d. Arrests/Aftermath of Kristallnacht
i. Holocaust Museum
ii. Photographs
iii. Pogroms
iv. Overview of Kristallnacht
v. Jewish Virtual Library overview
vi. Herschel Grynszpan
vii. More on Herschel Grynszpan
7. WWII propaganda
a. Nazi propaganda themes and lies
b. Film, newsreels, posters, etc.
c. Joseph Goebbels
d. Promoting the war in America
i.The National Archives (American)
ii. Holocaust Museum
 iii. Deceiving the Public
iv. Defining the Enemy
v. Propaganda Tactics
vi. Propaganda posters
vii. “Make Way for Young Germany” speech
viii. Bio of Goebbels
ix. More on Nazi propaganda
8. Non-Jewish Germans who were persecuted by the Nazis
a. Other races (Poles, Roma,etc.)
b. The Disabled
c. Political opponents
d. Homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and other victims
i. Victims
ii. Jewish Virtual Library
iii. Mosaic of Victims
iv. Mosaic of Victims (second article)
v. Murder of the “Unfit”
vi. Persecution of Homosexuals
vii. Persecution of the Poles
viii. Sinti and Roma persecution

9. Early labor/work camps

a. Nazi forced labor
b. Dachau
c. Buchenwald
d. Sachsenhausen
i. Nazi forced labor
ii. Dachau
iii. Early concentration camps
iv. Early days in Dachau
v. Concentration camps
vi. Buchenwald
vii. Sachenhausen
viii. More on Sachenhausen
ix. More on Buchenwald
10. The Warsaw Ghetto
a. Establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto
b. Everyday life in the Warsaw Ghetto
c. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
d. What happened to the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto?
i. The Warsaw Ghetto- Overview
ii. More Warsaw Ghetto information
iii. Deportations
iv. The Uprising
 v. Resistance in the Ghettos
vi. Life in the Ghetto
vii. Steps Toward Establishing the Ghetto
11. The German occupation of the Netherlands
a. German invasion of Holland
b. Anti-Jewish Measures
c.Deportations from the Netherlands
d.Westerbork Transit Camp
i. Deportations from the Netherlands
ii. Westerbork
iii. Photos
iv. The Netherlands
v. Anti-Jewish measures
vi. The Invasion of Holland
vii. Amsterdam
viii. Jewish Virtual Library- Netherlands

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