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Date of Class

Topic

Documents Discussed in Class

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Introduction

 

Main Presentation

Diaspora Map and Talmud Explanation

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Jewish History and Culture

 

Main Presentation

 

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Antisemitism

 

Main Presentation

 

Friday, June 27, 2008

Ideologies and the Context of the Holocaust

 

Main Presentation

 

Monday, June 30, 2008

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Ideologies

 

Main Presentation

 

 

Nazism

 

Main Presentation

· Hitler’s First Antisemitic Writing

· The Nazi Party’s 25-Point Program of 1920

· Excerpts from Mein Kampf on living space and race

· Excerpts from Mein Kampf on Jews

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Exclusion, Expropriation, and Expulsion in Germany, 1933-1939

 

Main Presentation

 

· Hindenburg Demands Veterans’ Exception

· The Nuremberg Laws

· Reinhard Heydrich’s Instructions on Kristallnacht

· Hitler’s “Prophecy” Speech, January 30, 1939

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Eugenics

 

Main Presentation

 

Midterm Exam

Monday, July 7, 2008

Final Exam Covers All Material Below

 

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

World War II

 

Main Presentation

Hossbach Memorandum

 

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Poland, 1939-1941

The Search for a “Solution”

 

Main Presentation

 

 

Friday, July 11, 2008

“Final Solution”

 

Main Presentation

Wannsee Conference Minutes

Monday, July 14, 2008

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

The Holocaust in Germany and Western Europe

 

Non-Jewish Victims of Nazi Racial Murder and Oppression

 

Main Presentation

Handout on film “America and the Holocaust”

Thursday, July 15, 2008

The Murder of Hungary’s Jews;

Auschwitz;

“Medical” Experiments

Covering Up

 

Main Presentation

 

Friday, July 18, 2008

Resistance and Rescue

 

Main Presentation

 

Monday, July 21, 2008

Trials and Memory

 

Main Presentation

 

 

Other documents:

 

  1. Course syllabus
  2. Guide to the Midterm Exam
  3. Guide to the Final Exam