|| Return to The Holocaust--A Guide for Teachers || Classical and Christian Anti-Semitism Synopsis The differences Jews had with their non-Jewish neighbors led to separate social and religious lives. Intolerance and suspicion of these differences led to...

Return to the Teacher's Guide Synopsis This chapter conveys the history, religion, and culture of the Jewish people from its Biblical origins to the present. These characteristics of the Jews set them apart from their...

|| Return to The Holocaust--A Guide for Teachers || Preface Between 1933 and 1945, a catastrophe occurred in Europe which culminated in the wanton, planned destruction of much of European Jewry and millions of other "undesirables"...

Return to the Teacher's Guide   Synopsis The government of Nazi Germany was a fascist, totalitarian state. Totalitarian regimes, in contrast to a dictatorship, establish complete political, social, and cultural control over their subjects, and...

Return to the Teacher's Guide The "Final Solution" Synopsis The Nazis, under cover of the war, developed the technology, bureaucracy, and psychology of hate to efficiently murder millions of Jews. The details of the "Final...

|| Return to The Holocaust--A Guide for Teachers || Synopsis Much of Europe was destroyed in the war. Survivors of the camps were in terrible condition, both physically and psychologically. Trials were held in Nuremberg in...

Return to the Teacher's Guide Synopsis Adolf Hitler, a charismatic, Austrian-born demagogue, rose to power in Germany during the 1920s and early 1930s at a time of social, political, and economic upheaval. Failing to...

What This Guide Is The Holocaust: A Study Guide for Teachers is a comprehensive resource for educators teaching the Holocaust and its historical contexts. Developed by Gary M. Grobman and first published in 1990, it...