Good and Evil Final Project: Resources by Topic

A firsthand account by American School in Germany headmaster of Dr. Ziemer on the education practices of youth in Nazi Germany.

Primary examples of propaganda by Nazi era with commentary by USHMM historians.

The Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler aimed to purify the genetic makeup of the population through measures known as racial hygiene or eugenics. Scientists in the biomedical fields, many of them medically trained experts, played a role in legitimizing these policies and helping to implement them.

A landing page for web resources pertaining to the medical experiments perpetrated by the Nazis. *Discretion advised for sensitive content*

CANDLES is an acronym for Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors. CANDLES, Inc. was founded in 1984 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization by Eva Mozes Kor with help from her twin sister, Miriam Mozes Zieger, to launch an effort to locate other surviving Mengele twins.

Nazi leaders organized a boycott on businesses owned by Jews in 1933. The boycott was the first nationwide anti-Jewish action in Nazi Germany.

On September 15, 1935, the Nazi regime announced two new laws related to race:
The Reich Citizenship Law
The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor

Kindertransport (Children's Transport) was the informal name of a series of rescue efforts between 1938 and 1940. These rescue efforts brought thousands of refugee children, the vast majority of them Jewish, to Great Britain from Nazi Germany.

Web based overview of the organization of Kindertransport. Make sure to explore references at the end of the article for further research!

The 1948 resolution establishing the international definition of genocide and commitment to its prevention

A brief reading & infographic introducing the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The legal term “genocide” refers to certain acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

Roma were among the groups of people singled out for persecution by the Nazi regime and its Axis partners. Nazi authorities subjected Romani people to arbitrary internment, forced labor, and mass murder. They used Nazi racial ideology to justify the persecution of Roma, pejoratively referred to in German as Zigeuner (“Gypsy”). Browse this series of articles to better understand Romani history; the history of discrimination against Roma in Europe; and how and why the Nazi regime committed genocide against European Roma during World War II.

Donert, Celia. “Roma Holocaust.” History Today, vol. 72, no. 2, Feb. 2022, pp. 42–53. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=8bdb415a-b955-3d35-8e68-5885d8b2a977.

A Permanent exhibit in their Strauss Health Science Library as a donation to Holocaust, Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program

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A Jehovah's Witness survivor's introspection opens a window into the Nazi darkness. As prisoner #1795, Johannes Steyer shares 27 freeze-frame visions that contrast ten years of Nazi terror with individual religious determination and hope.

Rebecca Rovit, Cultural Ghettoization and Theater during the Holocaust: Performance as a Link to Community, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 19, Issue 3, Winter 2005, Pages 459–486, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dci042

Science of resistance: Heinrich Wieland, the biochemist who defied the Nazis; Recognise his name? Few do. But Wieland wasn't just the father of biochemistry and a Nobel prize winner. He was a scientist with the courage of his convictions.

A quick overview of Mengele's life, role in Nazi party, and escape

Freud on book burning & his escape to England.

Book History article detailing wartime responses to Nazi Book Burning

Combination of text, video, and photo documentation of Nazi book burnings

What did the US government and the American people know about the threats posed by Nazi Germany? What responses were possible? And when? This exhibition examines the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war, and genocide.

A recap of key discussions held by Sec. State Blinken & German Foreign Minister Maas about shared commitment to combat Holocaust denial. Click through linked terms for more info!

The National Cathedral and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum host this webinar exploring the long entangled history of antisemitism and Christianity. Speakers reflect on the origins of antisemitism and the Church, its implications during the Holocaust, and some of the ways that contemporary theologians, faith leaders and educators address these legacies today. Speakers include Dr. Rebecca Carter-Chand, Dr. Philip Cunningham, Dr. Benjamin Sax, and the Rev. Dr. Katherine Sonderegger.

These Museum resources highlight aspects of Holocaust history as it relates to the choices and actions of religious communities. They may be of particular interest to university and seminary faculty, as well as community and religious groups. These resources provide deeper knowledge of the role religious communities played in the Holocaust and the ways in which religious communities have addressed this history since the end of the Holocaust.