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The Third Wave was an experimental movement created by the high school history teacher Ron Jones in 1967 to explain how the German population could have accepted the actions of the Nazi regime during the rise of the Third Reich and the Second World War.
Oct 14, 2008 · Schoolteacher Ron Jones's personal account of his experiment which created a proto-fascist movement amongst his high school pupils in Palo Alto, California, which in 2008 was subject of the award-winning film The Wave.
Mar 17, 2017 · The Third Wave began as an experiment in the classroom of first-year history teacher Ron Jones to simulate fascism in World War II and demonstrate to skeptical students how the Nazi Party...
- Linda Taaffe
Oct 21, 2023 · His unique teaching experiment, now known as the “Third Wave Experiment,” morphed into a gripping societal commentary that is still studied to this day. It showed with terrifying clarity how any nation, however civilized, can quickly fall to fascist ideology. It took his school less than five days. Day One: Let’s Play A Game
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In spring 1967, in Palo Alto, California, high school history teacher Ron Jones conducted a social experiment in fascism with his class of 10th-grade 15-year-olds, to sample the experience of the attraction and rise of the Nazis in Germany before World War II.
Ron Jones (born 1941) is an American writer and formerly a teacher in Palo Alto, California. He is best known for his classroom exercise called "The Third Wave" and the book he wrote about the event, which inspired the made-for-TV movie The Wave and other works, including a theatrical film in 2008.
This is teacher Ron Jones’ original short story about the Third Wave classroom experiment, first published in 1976, that led to the 1981 TV movie “The Wave.” (c) Copyright 1976 & 2020 by Ron Jones All Rights Reserved
