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Facing History and Ourselves Holocaust and Human Behavior

What is the fundamental (basic) value of a human life?

Why has the value of human life changed throughout the course of history?

Who are you at a deep emotional level?

What is the importance of honoring the basic value of every human life, regardless of differences amonst all of us?

These are hard maybe even impossible questions to answer. But we're going to try to tackle these anyway.

Many of you have studied the Holocaust, World War II, and Nazism before. Many of you probably also find it quite interesting. It is quite interesting!

However our examination will focus on the people behind these events. Who they were as human beings. We'll look at both perpertrators and victims, haves and have nots. At the end we will hopefully have a better understanding of humanity, the value of human life, and the importance of protecting all humanity to help prevent the type of thinking which allowed Holocaust of World War II to happen.

Germany: Post World War I

Examine the pictures below and complete an I See/It Means on both





Once you have finished summarizing what you think is happening in the pictures, look for any similarities in the two pictures.

Than watch this video, and CCQ while you watch. []

The Bear that Wasn't

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