Date of Class

Topic

Documents Discussed in Class

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Introduction

 

Main Presentation

Diaspora Map and Talmud Explanation

 

Jewish History and Culture

 

Main Presentation

 

 

Antisemitism

 

Main Presentation

 

 

Ideologies and the Context of the Holocaust

 

Main Presentation

 

 

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

 

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

 

Eugenics

 

Main Presentation

 

Midterm Exam

 

Final Exam Covers All Material Below

 

 

World War II

 

Main Presentation

Hossbach Memorandum

 

 

Poland, 1939-1941

The Search for a “Solution”

 

Main Presentation

 

 

 

“Final Solution”

 

Main Presentation

Wannsee Conference Minutes

 

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”

 

The Murder of Hungary’s Jews;

Auschwitz;

“Medical” Experiments

Covering Up

 

Main Presentation

 

 

Resistance and Rescue

 

Main Presentation

 

 

Trials and Memory

 

Main Presentation

 

 

Other documents:

 

  1. Course syllabus