11.3 - Supporting Question 3

Compelling Questions:

Should a country be isolated in a time of global conflict?

Supporting Question 3:

What was the scope and significance of the Holocaust?

 

Introduction

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.”  In this section of the module, students will read and analyze both secondary and primary sources describing the devastating effects of the Holocaust.

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