Students will examine how Nazi ideology promoted eugenics and antisemitism to understand the harmful impacts of Nazi ideology during the Holocaust. Students will analyze two primary sources from the time which further demonstrate eugenics and propaganda at work. After, students will watch select video clips from The U.S. and the Holocaust and record notes. Students will reflect and discuss what they have seen and watched with their classmates before completing an exit ticket to demonstrate they have achieved the objective.

The first two video clips show how eugenics promoted the false and harmful idea that Jews are inferior. The second clip shows propaganda and rhetoric used by Hitler to try to convey to people that Jews were the enemy of Germany. The final two clips show that this harmful Nazi ideology led to the mass killing of Jewish people in concentration camps throughout Europe. After U.S. soldiers saw the atrocities committed by the Nazis, international efforts were made to protect human rights and prevent future wars and genocide.