Holocaust & Genocide
Section of Ghetto Wall, Kraków, Poland
Syllabus [Spring 2020, TTh]
Context for the Holocaust [timeline]
STUDY GUIDE: Exam One
TIMELINE: Exam One
STUDY GUIDE: Exam Two
TIMELINE: Exam Two
RESEARCH PAPER: Final Take-Home
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia (2005)
Assignments:
Analysis: Defining Genocide (2005)
The Armenian Genocide
Nazi Genocide: The Holocaust (1941-1945)
Communist Democide: Stalinist Terror (1928-1953)Cambodian Autogenocide: Khmer Rouge Killing Fields (1975-1979)
Rwandan Genocide: Hutus & Tutsis (1994)
Study & Viewing Guides:
War & Genocide
Namibian Genocide (1904-1908)
Armenian Genocide (1915-1923)
The Nazis: A Warning from History (Big Picture Questions)
The Nazis: A Warning from History (Terms to Know)
Amen (2001)
Hitler's Biological Soldiers
Spiral of Terror [War of the Century]
Wannsee Protocol & Conspiracy (2001)
The Deadly Experiment
The Nuremberg Trials [American Experience]
War & Remembrance (1988)
Stalinist Soviet Union: Darkness Descends (1924-1938)
Darfur: The Devil Came On Horseback (2007)
Selected Handouts:
Modern Genocides (1900 to present)
Adolf Hitler, First Anti-Semitic Writing (September 16, 1919)
Harry Franck, Vagabonding Through Changing Germany (1920)
Deutschland erwacht! [Nazis In Power]
Emperor Haile Selassie’s appeal to League of Nations (June 1936)
Legislation Against German Jews (1933-1939)
Excerpts from The Poisonous Mushroom (1938)
Adolf Hitler, Extract from Reichstag Speech (January 30, 1939)
Commissar Order (6 June 1941) & Guidelines for Troop Conduct (19 May 1941)
Report by Einsatzgruppe a in the Baltic Countries (October 15, 1941)
German soldier to his parents, Tarnopol (6 July 1941)
War in the East: Statistics
Auschwitz I & II maps
Matching Quotes/Primary Sources:
German South-West Africa: Herero & Nama Genocide
Ottoman Turkey: Armenian Genocide
Social Darwinism & Eugenics
Anti-Semitism: Traditional & Modern
Birth of the Nazi Party: Primary Sources
Excerpts from Mein Kampf (1925) by Adolf Hitler
Nazi Germany: Becoming a racist, anti-Semitic society (1933-1938)
Pre-War Nazis (1933-1938)
Racial Hygiene & Nazi 'Euthanasia'
Operation Barbarossa (June-October 1941)
Vilna, Lithuania (June-October 1941)
Sonderkommando testimony: "It was real hell."
Fighting to the End: Death Marches & Liberation
The Holocaust
Related Resources:
Yad Vashem (Jerusalem, Israel)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.)
Holocaust History Animated Maps
Holocaust (Facing History & Ourselves)
Holocaust By Bullets (Yahad In Unum)
Shoah Foundation Institute (University of Southern California)
Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives (Gulag Museum of Perm)
Imperialism & The Great War
The Russian Revolution
Totalitarianism & World War Two