About This Lesson
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: HOW DID THE ICRC SUCCESSFULLY ESCAPE THE SHADOWS OF ITS AMBIGUOUS WARTIME RECORD TO FORGE A NEW ROLE AND A NEW IDENTITY IN THE POST 1945 WORLD
Objectives: SWBAT analyze, evaluate, source and annotate excerpted primary and secondary sources on the topic ICRC humanitarian aid during the Holocaust with emphasis on building evidence-based reasoning skills necessary for the A.P. World History exam.
CITATIONS:
Steinacher, Gerald (2017) Humanitarians At War: The Red Cross in the Shadow of the Holocaust. United Kingdom: Oxford University
BOOK REVIEW:
https://www.kirkusreview.com/book-reviews/gerald-steinbacher/humanitarians-at-war
DAILY ACTIVATOR:
Video: 150 Years of Humanitarian Action: The 1949 Geneva Convention (15:02 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBdQ-Rr4BuQ
PRIMARY SOURCES:
1949 Geneva Convention
https://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/publications/icrc-002-00173.pdf
Nuremberg Principles of 1945
https://kozidryngiel.files.wordpress.com
Genocide Convention of 1848
http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1848
