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Rethinking Perpetrators, Bystanders and Rescuers: The Case of Max Schmeling

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Rethinking Perpetrators, Bystanders and Rescuers: The Case of Max Schmeling

Description:
The focus of this lesson is personal choice and how changing circumstances can affect one person’s ethical choices. During the Holocaust, people made choices, and by placing individuals in the appropriate historical context students can begin to comprehend the circumstances that encouraged or discouraged their acts. In fact, some people, like the now well-known Oskar Schindler, demonstrated a range of choices as they faced different circumstances as well as their own consciences and morality. The German Max Schmeling, former heavyweight champion of the world, is probably best known for his two matches against the U.S. boxing champ, Joe “the Brown Bomber” Louis. Louis lost the first match against Schmeling in 1936 but defeated him in the 1938 rematch, which many saw as a symbolic defeat for Hitler’s Germany by a black man representing America.
Education Levels:
9, 10, 11, 12
Subject:
History, Human Behavior, Human Relations, Sociology, World History, History, Judaism, Process Skills
Resource Type:
Lesson plan
Medium:
Text/HTML
Fee Status:
Free
Beneficiary:
Students
Online provider:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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