This list was originally compiled for White Rose Student Research Contest research.
The list is not exhaustive and teachers are encouraged to help students find additional resources. The Virginia Holocaust Museum urges caution when conducting open web-based searches for Holocaust research. Please require your students to link through trusted sites such as the Virginia Holocaust Museum and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Resources
● German Propaganda Archive ● Defining the Enemy ● Defining the Enemy (make sure to click through all slides) ● Nazi Propaganda ● Nazi Propaganda ● The Hitler Youth ● An Unfinished Film ● April 1933 Boycott of Jewish businesses ● State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda ● Indoctrinating Youth ● “Propaganda and Children During the Hitler Years” ● Der Ewige Jude
Primary Source Propaganda Material
● Excerpts regarding propaganda from Mein Kampf ● “The Jewish Problem” – 1939 a citizens handbook ● “The Jews In World Politics” – 1942 ● “To Know the Jews is to Understand the Meaning of War” – 1944 ● “The ‘Decent’ Jew” – 1939 ● Review of The Eternal Jew ● Guidebook for Nazi Party Propagandists – 1927 ● Guidebook for Nazi Party Propagandists – 1930 ● Knowledge and Propaganda – speech by Joseph Goebbels ● The Poisonous Mushroom (click on thumbnails to read text) ● The Will and the Way – by Joseph Goebbels ● Hitler Speaks to the Reichstag on the Jewish Question – January 30, 1939 ● Der Untermesch – 1942 ● Antisemitic cartoons in Der Stürmer ● Public Humiliation – “I am a defiler of the race.” – 1935 ● “Ten Responses to Jewish Lackeys” – 1936 ● “The Jews and the German People” – 1937 teaching material for 8th grade curriculum on “racial instruction” ● “When You See This Symbol…” – 1941 pamphlet ● “Behind the enemy powers: the Jew.” – circa 1942 ● “Germany Overcomes Jewry” – 1944 BDM Newsletter Testimony
● Testimony of Ilsa Cole ● Local Kansas City area survivors ● I Witness Testimony Archive – (requires teacher log-in and allowing access for students) ● USHMM Testimonies ● Voices of the Excluded
Images
● Nazi Propaganda Image Gallery 1 ● Nazi Propaganda Image Gallery 2 ● Der Stürmer Gallery
Videos
● European Antisemitism From Its Origins to the Holocaust ● The Eternal Jew ● A Film Unfinished – contains footage from the unfinished film “Das Ghetto” ● Jud Süss ● Goebbels Claims Jews Will Destroy Culture – 1935 Historical Film Footage ● Adam Czerniakow, chairman of the Jewish council in Warsaw – 1942 Historical Film Footage ● Theresienstadt – 1944 Historical Film Footage ● Dr. Jeffrey Herf – The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust ● Dr. William Meinecke – Building the Racial State
Teaching Resources
● Curated collection of Propaganda Teaching Resources ● Echoes and Reflections Chapter 2 ● USHMM Curated Lesson Plans ● Redefining How We Teach Propaganda
General Resources – Online
● United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ● Holocaust Encyclopedia ● The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students ● Overview of the Holocaust ● The Path to Nazi Genocide – film by USHMM ● Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance ● Jewish Virtual Library ● Yad Vashem
Primary Source Materials – Online
● VHM Primary Source Links