Conformity and Obedience

Includes obedience to authority and group conformity; does not include civil disobedience or other resistance to authority.

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Charting Identity: Building Community in the Classroom This outline provides an introduction into the creation and interpretation of identity charts, a core activity in many Facing History classrooms.	Lesson Plan	02/22/2008 - 19:28
Decades Later Still Asking: Would I Pull That Switch (The New York Times, July 1, 2008) The article "Decades Later Still Asking: Would I Pull That Switch" shares data from several recent reports that take a closer look at Stanley Milgram's famous research on obedience in the early 1960s.	Facing Today	07/14/2008 - 11:16
Exploring Nazi Propaganda and the Hitler Youth Movement This lesson outline intends to look at different forms of Nazi Propaganda, and to use the German Propaganda Archive, housed at Calvin College, to explore how the Nazis employed propaganda within the Hitler Youth movement.	Lesson Plan	02/24/2008 - 17:58
Exploring Obedience: Germany under the Nazis This outline offers several ways for students to examine the critical decisions facing German youth and citizens during the 1930s. The question of whether or not one pledged an oath of allegiance to the Nazi Party presented citizens with a decision that not only affected themselves, but their families and communities.	Lesson Plan	02/24/2008 - 18:00
Martha Minow: What the Rule of Law Should Mean in Civics Education Martha Minow, Harvard Law Professor and Chair of the Facing History and Ourselves Board of Scholars, discusses the relationship between war crimes, obedience, education and the law.	Video Clip	03/11/2008 - 11:26
Nazi Atrocities, Committed by Ordinary People (Der Speigel, March 18, 2008) The article "Nazi Atrocities, Committed by Ordinary People" explains research that shows how Germans and Austrians from all walks of life helped the Nazis carry out the atrocities committed during the Holocaust.	Facing Today	05/14/2008 - 11:11
Obedience and Conformity: Police Battalion 101 How can we explain the behavior of individuals who followed orders, and committed atrocities and murder during the Holocaust? Why did some choose to obey authority rather than resist? This lesson outline explores these questions and others through a detailed study of perpetrators of horrific violence during the Holocaust.	Lesson Plan	03/16/2008 - 14:45
Obedience and Traditional Jewish Texts: The Milgram Experiment This lesson explores questions of obedience, and why people may participate in something against their conscience or harm others even against their will. It centers on an experiment about obedience performed by Stanley Milgram at Yale in the 1960's, described in Holocaust and Human Behavior.	Lesson Plan	03/16/2008 - 20:52
Propaganda: Cultivating Obedience to the Nazis This lesson outline explores how the Nazis used a variety of propaganda techniques to enforce obedience and conformity within Germany. A variety of visual sources are used, and through a series of interactive exercises students can examine both the content and techniques of Nazi propaganda.	Lesson Plan	03/16/2008 - 21:20
Schindler's List Schindler's List, the award-winning film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Steven Zaillian based on the book by Thomas Keneally, tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a war profiteer and member of the Nazi party who saved over 1,000 Jews during World War II.	Publication	02/23/2008 - 20:26