Lesson 6: Operation Barbarossa
Learning Objective: Knowing how every action has consequences and impacts throughout history.
Resources:
Video's Shown on here, Page 90 Echoes and Reflections (Pyramid)
Learning Activities:1. Show the first video as an Intro to this topic
In Pairs create a google doc called Operation Babarossa 2. Explain what Operation Babarossa was: MUST DO: Copy the following -"Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of Russia and its Allied states by the Nazi's. This happened on the 22nd June 1941. Hitler ignored a treaty with Stalin and attacked Russia. When he did this he had the problem of large numbers of Jews in parts of Russia. He created Death Squads to find those Jews and other enemies in each Village, Town or City and round them up and kill them. CAN DO: Will be done Thursday/Friday - Add 22nd June 1941 to your timeline done early in this topic - Operation Barbarossa (Invasion of Russia) 3. Get the Pyramid of Hate: MUST DO: Collect and Discuss in pairs - read the panels CAN DO: Write a paragraph on how this effects people in Russia and its surrounding states. 4. Death squads MUST DO: Watch the first of 2 10 minute videos on Death Squads Write 5 points from video you think are important CAN DO: Watch second 10 Minute Video and repeat Write 5 points from video you think are important 5. Examples: MUST DO: Please copy - One examples of this was - The Ponary Massacre was the mass murder of up to 100,000 people, mostly Jews, but also Russians, Poles, Lithuanians and others, by German SD, SS and Lithuanian Nazi collaborators. Some 70,000 Jews were murdered in Ponary,[7] along with estimated 20,000 or more Poles[1] and 8,000 Russians, many from nearby Vilnius in July 1941 and August 1944. CAN DO: Please Copy - Another example of this was - The largest mass shooting perpetrated by the Einsatzgruppen took place on 29 and 30 September 1941 at Babi Yar, a ravine northwest of Kiev, a city in Ukraine that had fallen to the Germans on 19 September. The murders continued for two days, claiming a total of 33,771 victims. |
|
6. Reflective Practice: Questions to answer -
EXTRA: If you want to the doco on the left is a full doco on this topic.
- If you were a non-Jew in this place how would you react to what happened? How did they react? WHY?
- If you were a soldier in a Death Squad how would you live with following these orders?
- If you were Jewish what do you think people would do to avoid these squads?
EXTRA: If you want to the doco on the left is a full doco on this topic.