Year 9 History/RE Lesson: What Made the Camps More Than Just Prisons?
This lesson examines why Nazi concentration and extermination camps were fundamentally different from ordinary prisons. Pupils learn about the development of camps from Dachau to Auschwitz, the work of the Einsatzgruppen, and the shift to industrialised murder through gas chambers. They explore how camps combined imprisonment, forced labour, and genocide as part of the Final Solution. Activities include guided reading, comprehension questions, gap-fill exercises, and reflective writing on the systematic nature of Nazi persecution.
Learning aims:
Explain how Nazi camps evolved from prisons to centres of mass murder
Describe the roles of the Einsatzgruppen and extermination camps
Reflect on why the Nazis moved from shootings to gas chambers
Evaluate what made the camps a unique tool of genocide
Includes PowerPoint slides (school logos have been removed from the PPT), comprehension tasks, structured reflection questions, and writing activities ready to teach.
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