Pretend you are a resistance reporter (you oppose the Nazis) secretly broadcasting from Berlin in the 1940s. Select at least 10 of the terms in the word bank below and use them to write a newscast letter for your American audience. Assume that many people may still not fully understand what many of these words signify. Weave your explanations into your account of events inside Germany-remember, the outside world had little knowledge of what was actually happening until later on. Pretend you are trying to alert them to what is happening and why they should help. Your audience is the American public. Highlight the terms in your letter so you can be sure you used at least 10! Word Bank:

• genocide • ghetto• resistance • Hitler • Aryan • Holocaust• anti-Semitism • Kristallnacht • Nazi
• Gestapo • crematorium • Auschwitz• Kapo• pogroms • swastika

You can start your letter as such:

Dear Americans,

This is writing from a secret location inside Berlin, Germany, on June 1st, 1941. I have only a few moments to alert you to the horrors happening-the Gestapo are near, and I cannot risk getting caught. Please read closely and spread this news to the outside world. We need help before it is too late

Holocaust,anti-Semitism,Kristallnach,Auschwitz,genocide, Nazi, Hitter,Kapo,pogroms,Gestapo

Explanation:

This is writing from a secret location inside Berlin, Germany, on June 1st, 1941. I have only a few moments to alert you to the horrors happening-the Gestapo are near, and I cannot risk getting caught. Please read closely and spread this news to the outside world. We need help before it is too late as they are anti semitism nazi following Hitter blindly as they are wanting to expand the kapo more around Europe planing greaten of death in the Holocaust because they are Kristallnach there kapo are forming to a Auschwitz so if we get caught they will all know about it want we will be work to death the nazi are causing mass genocide please help as soon as possible

- "the civil rights movements"

- "following the american civil war and abolition of slavery, the united states entered a period known as reconstruction, during which black americans continued to suffer from disenfranchisement, racial segregation, and economic oppression. beginning in the early 1950's, black americans launched a series of major campaigns of civil resistance, emphasizing the need for nonviolent protests and civil disobedience."

"such as the montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56, a campaign launched by rosa parks against the policy of racial segregation of the public transit system in alabama. “sit-ins” became popular across the american south, particularly in greensboro, north carolina, increase national sentiment."

- "the counterculture movement"

- "counterculture began to develop in the united states following the rise of conformity in american culture during the 1950s. by 1963, youth, particularly those of the white middle class, began rejecting the cultural standards and normality of their parents, opting for progressive attitudes instead. the movement gained momentum as the civil rights movement became increasingly successful and as the u.s. military intervention of vietnam began to take a negative turn."

"hippie counterculture moved further into popular culture following the summer of love in 1967 when thousands of people came together in the haight-ashbury neighborhood of san francisco. along with greenwich village in new york city, haight-ashbury became a hub for the counterculture movement."