Concentration and POW Camps

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Keywords
Ken burns World War II WWII WW2 world war two second world war The War Santo Tomas POW POW internment camp internment camp Japanese Imperial Army Japan Axis Manila Philippines University of Santo Tomas Allied prisoners prisoners of war American soldiers Pacific Theater Manila Internment Camp Santo Tomas Internment Camp University of St Thomas POWs Douglas MacArthur General MacArthur concentration camps prisoners genocide atrocities human rights Adolf Hitler imprisonment handicapped persons crippled murder Holocaust Dachau Mauthausen Buchenwald Elie Wiesel POW prisoners of war Nazis war crimes Axis Ray Leopold Dwain Luce Burnett Miller Holocaust concentration camps Jews Holocaust survivors Allied forces Ken Burns America WETA
Subjects
History-Social Science
Grade Levels
Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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Concentration and POW Camps

Learning Objectives:

Students will:

  • Identify conditions of prisoner of war camps in the South Pacific.
  • Analyze the conditions of the Nazi concentration camps. 
  • Compare and contrast the conditions between the two types of camps of World War II.

About the Author: 

Classroom activities created by Eden McCauslin, a Social Studies and English teacher in Chicago Public Schools. Eden previously taught in the District of Columbia Public Schools.
Publisher
PBS Learning Media

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