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America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference

81 minutes, black & white and color
Source: Social Studies School Service

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Armenian Genocide Vote Irks Turkey

Going against the Obama administration, “a U.S. congressional committee approved a resolution condemning the 1915 slaughter of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide,” The Wall Street Journal reports.

 Facing Today March 5, 2010
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State

6 hours on 2 DVDs

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Decision-Making in Times of Injustice Lesson 14
 Lesson Plan March 25, 2011
Decision-Making in Times of Injustice Lesson 9
 Lesson Plan March 26, 2009
Deep Dark Secret

13 minutes
Source: CBS Video

This 60 Minutes segment on the history of eugenics in the United States focuses on the Fernald School, a Waltham, Mass. institution in which children labeled as "feeble-minded" were locked up by the state government. At its peak, approximately 2,500 people, many of them children who were simply poor or uneducated, were confined at the Fernald School. Several of them, now grown, are interviewed in this video.

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Degenerate Art

60 minutes
Source: out of print

The exhibition Degenerate Art opened at the art center of the Third Reich in Munich as a demonstration of Jewish-Democratic and Kultur-Bolshevistik influences in the art banned by the Nazis. The Nazis applied the term 'degenerate' to 'all art other than the most commonplace naturalism.' Hitler had denounced modern art as the product of "morbid and perverted minds," and pledged to rid Germany of these "aesthetic atrocities."

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Degenerate Art in the Third Reich

62 minutes
Source: Facing History and Ourselves

David Joselit examines the lives and works of artists who opposed the artistic dictates of National Socialism. This lecture is part of the Elements of Time series. 

Related lesson:
Memory and Legacy: Building Monuments and Memorials

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Diplomats for the Damned

50 minutes
Source: Amazon.com

This film brings to light the stories of unsung heroes like Carl Lutz of Switzerland, Aristides de Sousa Mendes of Portugal, Hiram Bingham of the United States and George Ferdinand Duckwitz of Germany. By issuing visas, falsifying papers and cutting backroom deals, they risked their careers and lives in their lonely, noble crusades to rescue the condemned from the clutches of the Nazi regime.

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Facing Evil

60 minutes, color
Source: Films for the Humanities & Sciences

Facing Evil, hosted by Bill Moyers, documents the Understanding Evil conference held in Texas to examine the nature of evil. The speakers include Maya Angelou, Barbara Jordon, Philip Hallie, and Raul Hilberg. They look at racism, cruelty, and the bureaucracy that fostered evil during the Holocaust. Included in the video is the discussion of human goodness and its role in counter-balancing evil, as well as the potential of good emerging from evil.

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
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