Race and Citizenship in Nazi Germany and Jim Crow United States Curriculum UnitThe unit is inspired by the testimonies of Dr. Leon Bass, Martin Schiller, and John Weil. It centers their voices to invite students to think about comparative historical analysis. Students engage in close, empathetic listening, read primary texts, and analyze historical scholarship, particularly James Q. Whitman’s book Hitler’s American Model. Lesson materials are designed to be intellectually rigorous and accessible to students with a variety of learning styles. They convey key elements of the Fortunoff interview methodology to help students listen to testimony in ways that combine solidarity with survivors and critical analysis. Throughout the unit, students learn not to compare individual suffering but to focus their inquiry on race laws in the United States and Nazi Germany in the 1930s, exploring how the construct of race was codified and used to limit and deny citizenship rights to German Jews and Black Americans.