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[|15 Striking Print Ads That Show the Audacity of Nazi Germany]
The Third Reich, Germany’s Nazi era, existed from 1933, when Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Worker’s Party came to power, until 1945, when the regime collapsed at the end of the Second World War. At the time of Hitler’s rise to power Germany was recovering from the First World War and coming to terms with the conditions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. As evidenced below, the media of the Third Reich era were instrumental in creating the impression of a confident and stylish modern European country, with an air of optimism and triumphalism reflected in the print ads of the time.

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
1. **The power of Nazi Propoganda** – [] This is a brilliant slideshow in the Wall Street Journal of the poster the Nazis used in their anti-semitism campaign and the strengthening of the Nazi Power base. 2. **State of deception** – [] – this is the source of the Nazi propoganda posters and much more – this is the state of deception exhibit. 3. **Voices on Anti-semitism** - [] this is a podcast series from the Holocaust Museum

[|Life After the Holocaust: Stories of Holocaust Survivors After the War]
Nesse Godin is a survivor of the Siauliai ghetto in Lithuania, the Stuffhof concentration camp, four labor camps, and a death march.

[|The Schindler Story]
This is the true story of one remarkable man who outwitted [|Hitler's] SS men to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II.

**[|Children of the Holocaust]**
Explore the biographies of [|Children of the Holocaust]

[|Holocaust Survivors]
Though they survived the Holocaust, most have not escaped from the pain. Read the stories of the survivors.

**[|Telling Their Stories]**

 * Read, watch and listen to interviews conducted by high school students. **

[|Survivors of the Shoah]
This Holocaust survivor Web site was put together by Steven Spielberg. Watch survivor testimonies and read information about Holocaust heroes

**[|Holocaust Survivors and Refugees -]**

 * Over 30 hours of interviews with eight Jewish survivors and refugees from Poland, Germany, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Holland, and Austria**

[|Survivor Interviews]
Read interviews of people who made it out of the concentration camps alive.

[|A Holocaust Story]
Stories from the NZ Listener

**[|Hidden Children and the Holocaust]**
is an online exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It includes closed-captioned video about the saga of Jewish children who were hidden from the Nazi’s.

Images
Some of these may be quiet disturbing - Read the captions before deciding to view the image!

[|Auschwitz-Birkenau - Set of Flickr photos]
Photos of what the places look like today

[|The Holocaust]
Links to a variety of sites on the topic

[|Holocaust]
Very comprehensive list of links to topics about the Holocaust

[|Holocaust Encyclopedia]
weaves photos, narratives, and historical footage into a web presentation on more than 20 Holocaust topics, including antisemitism, pogroms, the Third Reich, the "final solution," the... (Holocaust Memorial Museum)

[|Holocaust Memorial Museum: For Students]
offers multimedia exhibits filled with artifacts and photos that help students learn about the Holocaust. Topics include Kristallnacht, the St. Louis ocean liner, the rescue of the... (Holocaust Memorial Museum)

[|Maine Holocaust Education Network]
We are a group of educators and students sharing and collaborating with each other in order to understand the Holocaust and work towards preventing future holocausts, genocides, and other human rights atrocities.

[|United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]
Includes information and links on genocide

**[|The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Online Exhibitions]**
They just have an extraordinary collection of online and interactive presentations.

[|PBS: America and the Holocaust]
This program is about the complex social and political factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust. The story of the Klein family's struggle to emigrate from Germany is highlighted. Students can read primary source documents and interview transcripts. Includes a timeline, maps, and biographies of people involved in these events.

[|Museum of Jewish Heritage]
Visit this museum's online exhibits to read and see how the Holocaust devastated the lives and tore apart families of many innocent Jewish people.

[|PBS: Daring to Resist]
This site has information about Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghettos of Germany. See pictures and read testimonies.

[|Holocaust and World War II]
Browse through a series of articles about the Holocaust and WWII.

[|Concentration Camps]
Visit the site and experience this painful history. Includes an interactive map that includes links to photographs of concentration camps.

[|Holocaust Resource Center]
This University of Southern Florida site has video clips of survivor testimonies, thousands of pictures, and audio files of music. You can also take virtual tours of concentration camps.

[|Holocaust Timeline]
This History Place site has a thorough timeline of the Holocaust. The timeline covers Adolf Hitler's rise to power all the way to 1963. Within the timeline there are links to the concentration and death camps of the Third Reich.

[|Grolier Online]
This site offers an overview of Hitler's life.

[|eThemes Resource: World War II]
This eThemes Resource covers the events of World War II (1939-1945). There are several first-hand accounts in text and audio from people involved in the war effort. Other topics include life on the homefront, the role of women, and the type of airplanes and weapons used. Includes biographies, letters, images, posters, video, and audio clips.

[|We Remember the Holocaust]
This is a series of lesson plans about the Holocaust for elementary students.

[|Teacher Vision]
There are lesson plans on the Holocaust for different grades.

[|eThemes Resource: Literature: "The Diary of Anne Frank"]
These sites focus on Anne Frank and her famous diary. Learn more about her life story, her family, friends, and the secret annex where she hid during World War II. There are also many historic photos, online quizzes, lesson plans, and suggested activities. Includes a link to an eThemes Resource on the Holocaust.

[|eThemes Resource: Literature: "Night" by Elie Wiesel]
These websites are about the book "Night" by the author Elie Wiesel. Includes author biographies, interviews, time lines, lesson plans, activity ideas, study guides, and resources on genocide. There are links to eThemes Resources on the Holocaust and World War II. 

**Best Sites to Learn about the Holocaust from Larry Ferlazzo**
I thought I’d quickly put together a [|“The Best…”]list of sites I’ve used with my students to help them learn about the Holocaust. You might also find [|The Best Web Resources On Darfur] useful. Here are my choices for The Best Sites For Learning About The Holocaust (and are accessible to English Language Learners): Here’s a very [|accessible short history of the Holocaust]. How Stuff Works has an excellent collection of short and [|accessible online videos about the Holocaust.] Holocaust Remembrance Day is actually recognized internationally on January 27th. Here is a [|Breaking News English lesson] that provides audio support for the text on that day. That lesson, designed for English Language Learners, is followed by [|an online exercise]. The United States Memorial Holocaust Museum has many resources. [|Life In The Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust] and [|Life After The Holocaust] are multimedia presentations that are particularly accessible to English Language Learners. You can find all their[| online exhibitions here]. [|Flight and Rescue] is another multimedia (including closed captions) online exhibition of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It describes the flight of 2,000 Polish Jews to safety. [|Encountering Auschwitz] is a closed-captioned movie on that concentration camp. [|Give Me Your Children: Voices From The Lodz Ghetto] is another accessible presentation from the Holocaust Museum. [|The Story Of Anne Frank] is a “talking book” created by students. [|Hilter’s Rage] is another student-created site about the Holocaust. [|Kristallnacht In Words and Photographs] is a slideshow from TIME Magazine about “the day the Holocaust began.” [|The History Channel] has an excellent site on the Holocaust. The BBC has a [|good animation about concentration camps], particularly Auschwitz, but it’s probably only accessible to advanced ELL’s. Darfur is not the only place in the world where genocide is happening today. [|Genocide in the Congo] also comes from the Holocaust Museum and has, among other elements, a journal written by Angelina Jolie. She also provides audio of the text. [|Remembering The Holocaust] is a slideshow from The Wall Street Journal. Brainpop has two good movies –one on the [|Holocaust] and the other on [|Anne Frank]. Unfortunately, you have to purchase a subscription to view them, but they do offer a free trial. Here are some materials on non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from the Holocaust: [|Irena Sendler] was a Pole who is credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children. The Teachers Guide to the Holocaust has [|materials on many “rescuers.”] I’ve also shown clips from movies portraying Jewish resistance to the Holocaust. Here are some Youtube links to them, though I’d encourage you to get the movies and show lengthier segments: [|Defiance] is the recent movie starring Daniel Craig. [|Uprising], about resistance in the Warsaw ghetto. [|Grey Zone], about an uprising at a concentration camp. If you don’t want to rent the movies, and your school blocks YouTube, you can learn other ways to show these clips at school at [|The Best Ways To Access Educational YouTube Videos At School]. And here is one last teacher resource — The Museum of Tolerance has a [|lot of resources on the Holocaust for teachers.] Also, [|David Truss] left a comment to both share a post from his blog reflecting on his visit to the Holocaust Museum in Israel, and to suggest a poem be added to this list: //“In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;// //And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;// //And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;// //And then. . . they came for me. . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up.”// Pastor Martin Niemöller Another suggestion in the comments section came from Edna, who recommended I include the [|Educational Materials from the Holocaust Museum in Israel.] [|The New York Times Learning Network] also has several good lessons on the Holocaust.

**Some more Links**
Some of these may be repeats of links above [|**The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy - Interactive Timeline**] [|**Holocaust- Main**] [|**Learning About The Holocaust**] [|**Holocaust Teacher Resources**] [|**Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State . Glossary . A B C | PBS**] [|**Voices of the Holocaust**] [|**CGJS: Holocaust education resources**] [|**Holocaust Resources for Teachers**]
 * [|The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy - What is the Holocaust?] **