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