Here you can find detailed information on the “forgotten Nazi victims”, sources, didactic considerations and intended competence enhancements.

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This lesson plan deals with the fate of the millions of Soviet military personnel who were taken prisoner of war. Based on the teaching of historical facts, the pupils can recognise from the letters they receive that National Socialist Germany did not adhere to valid international agreements. Since the letters not only describe the fate of the former Soviet prisoners of war during the war, captivity and the immediate post-war period, but also the time of the USSR and in part even the post-Soviet era, there are opportunities in class for a very differentiated examination and judgement, including a multi-perspective view.

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The aim of this lesson plan is for the pupils to deal with the Nazi crime complex of the burnt villages in the Belarusian SSR during the occupation. This should be done mainly from the perspective of the survivors of the burnt villages (letters). The pupils will also work with the central document, the War Jurisdiction Decree, which instructed Wehrmacht soldiers to take brutal punitive measures against the inhabitants of entire villages (as acts of revenge for the raids by partisans) and at the same time guaranteed them impunity, although these were war crimes. The students should examine the extent to which this decree was implemented in reality on the basis of the source material.

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This lesson plan consists of eight modules that fit into the sequence of the Second World War. The topic of the ‘scorched earth’ tactics during the withdrawal of the Wehrmacht from the territories of the Belorussian SSR and the Ukrainian SSR will be considered.

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Through this lesson plan, the students learn about specifics of the Holocaust in Germany and Western Europe as well as in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union. In addition to dealing with the ever-deepening restrictions on Jewish citizens in Germany and the extermination of the Jewish population (text and image sources as well as non-fiction texts), the students learn about the everyday life of Jews during persecution and the Holocaust in Western Europe and the Soviet Union through first-person documents, excerpts from Anne Frank’s diary and Inge Deutschkron’s autobiography as well as the letters of Jewish survivors from Ukraine.

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The teachers involved in the project created these videos on the lesson plans themselves in a CoAnimate workshop.

Germany

Russia (with German sutitles)

Ukraine (with German subtitles)

Belarus (with German language)