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Chapters I-VII
Chapter I: 1863-1919 Introduction to Eugenics
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Introductory Video
"The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics" by Edwin Black
Chapter II: (1919-1933): Science as Salvation: Weimar Eugenics
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Timeline
Video
Photo Gallery, Texts, and Videos
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"Anti-Jewish Boycott"
"Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases”
"Adolf Hitler Issues Comment on the “Jewish Question”
"Nazi Party Platform"
Oral Testimonies: Benno Muller-Hill and other survivors
Oral Testimony: Robert Wagemann
Project-Based Learning Activities
Chapter III (1933-1939):The Biological State: Nazi Racial Hygiene
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Timeline
Video
Photo Gallery and Text
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Euthanasia Centers, Germany
T-4 Program
Exhumations at Hadamar
Mauthausen
Project-Based Learning Activities
Chapter IV (1939-1945): Final Solutions: Murderous Racial Hygiene
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Timeline
Video
Photo Gallery and Text
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Final Solution Overview
Dr. Michael A. Grodin
The Hippocratic Oath
Dr. Josef Mengele
Medical Experiments
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NOVA's Holocaust on Trial: Medical Experiments
Chaim Engel, Survivor Testimony
Oral Testimony: Leo Schneiderman
Project-Based Learning Activities
Part V (1945 and the Nuremberg Trials)
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Timeline
Video
Photo Gallery and Text
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"The Doctors Trial: The Medical Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings"
The Doctors' Trials
Project-Based Learning Activities
Part VI (Post WWII-Present Day)
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Timeline
Video
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You Tube Video on NC Eugenics Compensation
Eugenics Victim Testimony
Photo Gallery and Text
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Part I of "The American Eugenics Movement after WWII" by Kevin Begos
Part II of "The American Eugenics Movement" by Kevin Begos
Part III of "The American Eugenics Movement" by Kevin Begos
Project-Based Learning Activities
Part VII ("What You Do Matters")
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"Never Forget"
General Resources
Other Helpful Links
Recommended Reading
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Common Core and Essential Standards
About Us and the Project
Chapter VII:
"What You Do Matters"
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