Identify the ‘common’ people, individuals from all walks of German society, before the war, and during the Second World War, who were involved in the Nazi effort, but were not in the Nuremberg trials.

1. While watching the WW2 Lost Color Archives (segments 1-5, each video segment about 10 minutes long). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KPCl9wh1G4&list=PL3E8C9599FBB7D1E4

2. Identify the ‘common’ people, individuals from all walks of German society, before the war, and during the Second World War, who were involved in the Nazi effort, but were not in the Nuremberg trials.

3. Discuss the examples of involvement, and complicity in the war by these ‘ordinary’ supporters, sometimes identified as bystanders, onlookers, and some as outright perpetrators. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/bystanders

4. Discuss the representative segments of the German Nazi society that was put on trial in the Nuremberg Process. Why only this number on trial? What about the bystanders and onlookers, and civilians involved in the Nazi regime (e.g. doctors experimenting on people in concentration camps?)

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