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Heil Hitler: Confessions of a Hitler Youth
Alfons Heck recalls how he became a high-ranking member of the Hitler Youth. He talks about the importance of peer pressure and propaganda to Hitler's ability to recruit eight million German children to participate in the "war effort."
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Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance
History Happens Here: The Riot at Christie Pits
Giles Hodges describes the riot that erupted in 1933 Toronto when a group of Nazi-inspired men raised a swastika flag at a local baseball game.
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Holocaust and Human Behavior in the Classroom
Teachers at Animo Jackie Robinson Charter High School use our Holocaust and Human Behavior resource and journey of discovery about oneself and others ("Scope and Sequence") to help students think critically about history and make informed choices.
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Race in US History
I Had Come Face to Face with Evil: Leon Bass Talks about his Experiences of Racism
Leon Bass describes his encounters with racism when he joined for the U.S. Army in 1943.
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I Really Learned the Power that Language Has: Aung Khine M.
Aung Khine M. explains how Facing History helped him learn the power of language.
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I'm Still Here
This documentary uses diary entries of youth who lived during the Holocaust and powerful images to teach a new generation about the pain of the past and hope for the future.
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Illuminations: The Art of Samuel Bak
Samuel Bak explains his life growing up in Vilna, and explores his art as it relates to Facing History
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Importance of Arms
Former Jewish partisan Aron Bell describes how weapons were essential to the life of a partisan.
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Inner Emigration: Struggling with Conscience During the Third Reich - Jonathan Petropoulos)
Professor Jonathan Petropoulos discusses the moral challenges faced by three cultural figures living in Nazi Germany, writer Gottfried Benn and artists Emil Nolde and Max Beckmann.
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International Law, Testing the Limits: The ICC and Darfur
From the film "The Reckoning" , International prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo tells the story of the 2005 International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecution of war crimes in Darfur.
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Interview Testimony by Barbara Turkeltaub
Holocaust survivor Barbara Turkeltaub was a very young girl in Vilna when her parents put her in a convent with Catholic nuns.
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