By: Jessica Rockhold
Midwest Center for Holocaust Education
Introduction
The Nazi legal assault on the Jews between 1933 and 1939 was not unique in its racial character nor in its segregationist aims. As with many Nazi attacks against the Jews, they took ideas and practices that were common in their own and other cultures and radicalized them to suit their needs. The American Jim Crow Laws were part of that inspiration.
This exercise helps students identify similarities and differences in the policy and implementation of American Jim Crow Laws and Nazi antisemitic laws.
Teacher Instructions
Teacher Notes - Discussion KEY
Materials for the lesson:
- Jim Crow Laws by State - Click on each state for the laws
- Nuremberg Laws - http://www.mchekc.org/PrimarySourceDocuments.htm
- Nazi Laws 1933-1939
