History and Journalism

Explain how the aftermath of the First World War and instability in the Weimar Republic contributed to the Nazi rise to power.

Distinguish religious anti-Judaism, modern political antisemitism, and Nazi racial antisemitism.

Explain how the Nazi regime dismantled democracy and established a dictatorship between 1933 and 1934.

Distinguish primary sources from secondary sources in Holocaust research.

Contextualise a historical source by identifying its creator, date, intended audience, and historical circumstances.

Evaluate the usefulness and limitations of a historical source for answering a specific question.

Explain how the Nuremberg Laws excluded German Jews from citizenship and public life.

Analyse the November 1938 pogroms as an escalation of state-directed anti-Jewish persecution.

Explain how the invasion and occupation of Poland intensified persecution through confinement, forced labour, and ghettoisation.

Describe how Nazi Germany and its collaborators carried out mass shootings following the invasion of the Soviet Union.

Explain the function of the Wannsee Conference within the already developing process of systematic mass murder.

Distinguish concentration camps, forced-labour camps, transit camps, and killing centres.

Construct an evidence-based timeline showing the escalation from legal exclusion to systematic genocide.

Interpret survivor testimony while accounting for individual perspective, memory, and historical context.

Compare how Jewish experiences of persecution varied across two occupied countries or communities.

Explain forms of Jewish resistance and agency beyond armed revolt.

Differentiate the roles of perpetrators, collaborators, bystanders, and rescuers in a specific historical case.

Assess a focused claim about Allied knowledge of or responses to the Holocaust using historical evidence.

Corroborate a historical claim using testimony and at least two other types of primary source.

Formulate a focused historical question and defensible thesis for a short essay about the Holocaust.

Create an essay outline that links each main claim to relevant evidence and source citations.

Write an analytical paragraph that clearly separates claim, evidence, context, and reasoning.

Revise a short historical essay for factual accuracy, logical structure, and responsible use of evidence.

Select a focused and ethically responsible angle for a journalistic feature about Holocaust history or remembrance.

Verify and attribute claims for the feature using multiple credible and independent sources.

Structure the feature using a lead, central focus, historical context, evidence, and a coherent conclusion.

Edit the completed feature to remove sensationalism, unsupported claims, false balance, and imprecise language.