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Get Started Chapter 1 The Individual and Society

Introduction 1. The Bear That Wasn’t 2. The Danger of a Single Story 3. Names and Identity 4. Finding One’s Voice 5. The Eye of the Beholder 6. Gender and Identity 7. Defining Race 8. The Social Reality of Race 9. The Consequences of Stereotyping 10. The Blink of an Eye 11. Little Things Are Big 12. Words Matter 13. Religion and Identity 14. Fear 15. The “In” Group 16. Finding Confidence 17. One Identity, Multiple Belongings Analysis and Reflection

Chapter 2 We and They

Introduction 1. What Do We Do with a Difference? 2. Universe of Obligation 3. Understanding Strangers 4. First Encounters in the Americas 5. We and They in Colonial America 6. Inventing Black and White 7. Who Is Human? 8. The Science of Race 9. We the People in the United States 10. Religion, Loyalty, and Belonging 11. Breeding Society’s “Fittest” 12. Creating the German Nation 13. Anti-Judaism before the Enlightenment 14. From Religious Prejudice to Antisemitism 15. “Expansion Was Everything” 16. Imperialism, Conquest, and Mass Murder Analysis and Reflection

Chapter 3 World War: Choices and Consequences

Introduction 1. 1914: War or Peace? 2. Turning Us against Them 3. A Last-Ditch Effort to Prevent a War 4. War Fever in Vienna 5. Between Peace and War 6. The Brutal Realities of World War I 7. Building Support on the Home Front 8. The Western Front at the Cinema 9. Hatred on the Home Front 10. Genocide under the Cover of War 11. Russia Quits the War 12. Disillusion on the Battlefield 13. Commemorating the War 14. Negotiating Peace 15. Self-Determination 16. The League of Nations 17. People without Papers Analysis and Reflection

Chapter 4 The Weimar Republic: The Fragility of Democracy

Introduction 1. The November Revolution 2. Rumors of Betrayal 3. Creating a Constitutional Government 4. In Search of Meaning 5. Law and Disorder 6. Attitudes toward Life and Death 7. The Beginning of the Nazi Party 8. The First Nazi Uprising 9. When Money Had No Value 10. Who Is to Blame for the Inflation? 11. The Myth of a Jewish Conspiracy 12. Voices in the Dark 13. Antisemitism and Jewish Identity 14. From Unrest to Peace and Prosperity 15. Visual Essay: Free Expression in the Weimar Republic 16. Women in the Weimar Republic 17. Youth and Belonging in the Weimar Republic 18. A New Economic Crisis 19. Violence in the Streets 20. Hard Times Return 21. Hitler in Power Analysis and Reflection

Chapter 5 The National Socialist Revolution

Introduction 1. The Night of Hitler’s Triumph 2. Hitler’s First Radio Address 3. “The Battle for Work” 4. Outlawing the Opposition 5. Enabling Dictatorship 6. Storm Troopers, Elite Guards, and Secret Police 7. Shaping Public Opinion 8. Working Toward the Führer 9. Targeting Jews 10. “Restoring” Germany’s Civil Service 11. A Test of Loyalty 12. Controlling the Universities 13. A Wave of Discrimination 14. Learning to Be a Good German 15. Where They Burn Books. . . 16. An Agreement with the Catholic Church 17. Protestant Churches and the Nazi State 18. Breeding the New German “Race” 19. No Time to Think 20. The Night of the Long Knives 21. Isolating Homosexuals 22. Pledging Allegiance 23. Do You Take the Oath? 24. The Empty Table Analysis and Reflection

Chapter 6 Conformity and Consent in the National Community

Introduction 1. The Common Interest before Self-Interest 2. Spying on Family and Friends 3. Speaking in Whispers 4. Political Prisoners 5. The Nuremberg Laws 6. Discovering Jewish Blood 7. Can a National Socialist Have Jewish Friends? 8. Visual Essay: The Impact of Propaganda 9. Art and Politics 10. Propaganda at the Movies 11. Women and the National Community 12. Joining the Hitler Youth 13. The Birthday Party 14. Models of Obedience 15. Disillusionment in the Hitler Youth 16. Rejecting Nazism 17. “Heil Hitler!”: Lessons of Daily Life 18. Youth on the Margins 19. Schooling for the National Community 20. Even If All Others Do—I Do Not! Analysis and Reflection

Chapter 7 Open Aggression and World Responses

Introduction 1. Rearming Germany 2. The “New Germany” on the Olympic Stage 3. “The George Washington of Germany” 4. Intervention in Spain 5. A Decline in Public Enthusiasm 6. Taking Austria 7. A Refugee Crisis 8. Crisis in Czechoslovakia 9. Beyond Any Nation’s Universe of Obligation 10. The Night of the Pogrom 11. Opportunism during Kristallnacht 12. A Family Responds to Kristallnacht 13. Thoroughly Reprehensible Behavior 14. A Visitor’s Perspective on Kristallnacht 15. World Responses to Kristallnacht 16. Diplomatic Responses: The Smallbones Scheme 17. Two Who Dared 18. The Narrowing Circle 19. Mocking World Leaders 20. The Voyage of the St. Louis 21. Refugee Blues 22. A Pact with the Soviet Union 23. Targeting Poland 24. The Hangman Analysis and Reflection

Chapter 8 A War for Race and Space

Introduction 1. Isolated and Demonized 2. Targeting the Sinti and Roma 3. “Unworthy to Live” 4. Bystanders at Hartheim Castle 5. Protesting Medical Killing 6. The War against Poland: Speed and Brutality 7. Dividing Poland and Its People 8. Colonizing Poland 9. “Cultural Missionaries” 10. The War on Jews in Poland 11. The Jewish Ghettos: Separated from the World 12. The Jewish Councils 13. Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto 14. The Battle for Western Europe 15. Waging a Racial War 16. Advice for German-Occupied Nations 17. The Invasion of the Soviet Union 18. Reaping the Benefits of War 19. The United States Enters World War II 20. Europe in Germany’s Grasp Analysis and Reflection

Chapter 9 The Holocaust

Introduction 1. Take This Giant Leap 2. Mobile Killing Units 3. Reserve Police Battalion 101 4. A Matter of Obedience? 5. “Proving Oneself” in the East 6. The Wannsee Conference 7. Establishing the Killing Centers 8. The “Special Trains” 9. Auschwitz 10. Choiceless Choices 11. A Commandant’s View 12. Identity in the Camps 13. Seizing Property 14. What Did Jews in the Ghettos Know? 15. Survival in Hiding 16. Difficult Choices in Poland 17. Speaking Out “In the Face of Murder” 18. We May Not Have Another Chance 19. A Basic Feeling of Human Dignity 20. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 21. Protests in Germany 22. Deciding to Act 23. Le Chambon: A Village Takes a Stand 24. Diplomats and the Choice to Rescue 25. Denmark: A Nation Takes Action 26. Terezín: A Site for Deception 27. A Transport to Bergen-Belsen 28. What Did the World Know? 29. The Difference between Knowing and Believing 30. A Report on the Murder of Jews 31. The Death Marches 32. As the War Ended Analysis and Reflection

Chapter 10 Judgment and Justice

Introduction 1. Revenge 2. How to Bring Nazi Leaders to Justice? 3. Establishing the Nuremberg Tribunal 4. The First Trial at Nuremberg 5. Betraying the Youth 6. Obeying Orders 7. The Technology of Mass Murder 8. Dogma Makes Obedient Ghosts 9. The Business of Slave Labor 10. The Tokyo Trials 11. The Last Chance for Justice 12. Choices that Define Us 13. Moral Luck and Dilemmas of Judgment 14. The Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness Analysis and Reflection

Chapter 11 Legacy and Memory

Introduction 1. The End and the Beginning 2. Post-War: Chaos and Challenges 3. The Persistence of Antisemitism 4. The United Nations 5. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 6. Does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Matter? 7. Raphael Lemkin and the Genocide Convention 8. The International Criminal Court 9. Christian Churches and Antisemitism: New Teachings 10. Survivors and Memory 11. Transitional Justice in Germany 12. Transitional Justice in South Africa 13. Facing the Past in Poland 14. Genocide Denied 15. Visual Essay: Holocaust Memorials and Monuments 16. Remembering the Names 17. Memory and Decision Making in Europe Today 18. The Holocaust as a Call to Conscience Analysis and Reflection

Chapter 12 Choosing to Participate

Introduction 1. What Difference Can a Word Make? 2. Bullying at School 3. Not in Our Town 4. The Voices of Millions 5. Open-Source Participation 6. Not Just Awareness, But Action 7. Mayor Mockus 8. Finding a Voice in Art 9. Seeking a Strategy that Works 10. Believing in Others 11. Breaking Isolation 12. Acknowledging the Past to Shape the Present 13. Who We Are, Or Could Be, in Times of Crisis 14. Walking with the Wind Analysis and Reflection Credits

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