Instructor Resources

The resources below provide background and more context on the Holocaust, World War II, and military action during the war.

Film

• Watch The Path to Nazi Genocide for general background information on the Holocaust.

Holocaust Encyclopedia articles

• Invasion of the Soviet Union
• Soviet Union and the Eastern Front
• Einsatzgruppen
• The Commissar Order
• Nazi Persecution of Soviet Prisoners of War
• The Treatment of Soviet POWs: Starvation, Disease, and Shootings, June 1941–January 1942
• Forced Labor: Soviet POWs January 1942- May 1945
• The German Army and the Racial Nature of the War Against the Soviet Union
• German Military Oaths

Animated maps

• WWII and the Holocaust 
• The Holocaust

Pedagogy

• Guidelines for Teaching about the Holocaust