Focus: Creation of the Nazi ''National Community''
Unit Length: Approx. 2.5 weeks
Grade Level: Juniors and Seniors
Student Outcomes: 1. to identify Hitler's attempt to create a unified national state. 2. to analyze how Hitler set up his concept of Gemeinschaft and drew in all Germans to accept his political and racial philosophies. 3. to understand the birth of the SS and how it was used to establish the Nazi state. 4. to discuss Hitler's attempt to draw in all Germans through civilian and youth organizations, and the army.
Lectures: Creation of Gemeinschaft and the Racial State Beginnings of the SS Himmler's SS Civilians in Gemeinschaft Hitler Youth Transformation of the Wehrmacht to Hitler's Army