1. Nuremburg Trials Mrs. Gregovich World History
SWBAT determine the cause and consequences of genocidal conflicts, i.e. the Holocaust (H3.20).
SWBAT analyze the impacts of WWII on world society (H4.14).

2. Nuremburg Laws The Nuremberg Race Laws
The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship, giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich.
The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have sexual relations with Aryans or to employ young Aryan women as household help.
(An Aryan being a person with
blond hair and blue eyes of
Germanic heritage.)

3. Nuremburg Race Laws
The first two laws comprising the Nuremberg Race Laws:
"The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor" (regarding Jewish marriage)
"The Reich Citizenship Law" (designating Jews as subjects).

4. Nuremburg Laws Those laws were soon followed by
"The Law for the Protection of the Genetic Health of the German People"
required all persons wanting to marry to submit to a medical examination, after which a "Certificate of Fitness to Marry" would be issued if they were found to be disease free.
The certificate was required in order to get a marriage license.

5. Color Coded Charts
The Nuremberg Laws had the unexpected result of causing confusion and heated debate over who was a "full Jew."
The Nazis then issued instructional charts to help distinguish Jews from Mischlinge (Germans of mixed race) and Aryans.

6. Nuremburg Codes The white figures represent Aryans;
The black figures represent Jews
The shaded figures represent Mischlinge.

7. Defining what a “Jew” really is…
The Nazis settled on defining a "full Jew" as a person with three Jewish grandparents.
Those with less were designated as Mischlinge of two degrees:
First Degree - two Jewish grandparents
Second Degree - one Jewish grandparent.
After the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, a dozen supplemental Nazi decrees were issued that eventually outlawed the Jews completely, depriving them of their rights as human beings.

8. Judgement at Nuremburg
Imagine the laws that could continue to pass after “Jews” were no longer considered human…
Imagine being the judge whose job it is to decide those cases….

9. Prewriting Assignment
Materials: Piece of paper and a writing utensil
Label it: Judgement at Nuremberg
Prompt:
Should a judge be held accountable for the type of laws they uphold or is it their duty to follow the law, regardless of their beliefs?
Is there a middle ground? Explain.

10. Guilty or Innocent
The movie “Judgement at Nuremberg” is based on an actual Nuremberg cases.
Four German judges are put on trial by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes they committed.
The judges were following the law when they make the court decisions, but they are still considered war crimes.

11. Guilty or Innocent
Hot dog fold your paper and write Guilty on one side and Innocent on the other.
Collect evidence and ideas throughout the movie for each side.
Decide if the judges should be held accountable for their actions or if they may be spared because they were following their countries laws…