Germany
Background
- Germany between the Wars
- History of Jews in Germany
- Yad Vashem: Holocaust in Germany
Yad Vashem Material Relating Directly to Gerd Strauss’ Experience
Primary Sources about Buchenwald:
Secondary Sources
1933 article from the Voelkischer Beobachter announcing the opening of a concentration camp at Dachau to which Gerd refers.
The Establishment of Dachau Concentration Camp
Further Background
World War I
Lesson plans and handouts that can be used independent of the television programs
- The Great War, PBS
- World War One, BBC
Treaty of Versailles Text (Yale Avalon Project)
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Text (Yale Avalon Project)
- Smele, Jonathan “Brest-Litovsk and Its Consequences”
- Noakes, Jeremy, “Hitler and ‘Lebensraum’ in the East”
- Brest-Litovsk to Nazism
History of Weimar Republic
The History Learning Site
Well organized. Excellent, brief, readable discussion of Weimar Constitution. Advertisements may be distracting.
German Notes
Accurate history of Weimar Republic accompanied by visuals of German bank notes from Weimar and Nazi Era
Timeline of Weimar Republic
David W. Morgan, Professor of History Emeritus, Wesleyan University
Cultural Life in Weimar Republic
Professor Gerhard Rempel, Western New England College
Film in Weimar
Fussell, Michael
Election Results in Weimar
Professor Dan Graf, Virginia Wesleyan College
Holocaust in Germany
Yad Vashem Article: Germany
Nowhere to Turn: Plight of German Jews in Nazi Germany 1933-1941
Northwest Minnesota Historical Center
This site also contains background from the Reformation on, including Social Darwinism.
Articles
7-9th grade:
Yad Vashem Interview with Holocaust Scholar Christoper: Antisemitism Before WWII
10th-post secondary:
Bergen, Doris L., Department of History University of Notre Dame
“Old Testament, New Hatreds: The Hebrew Bible and Antisemitism in Nazi Germany”
Urban, Susanne, Anti-Semitism In Germany Today: Its Roots And Tendencies, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
