26976       1:25-2:15	    MW
Above section for Jewish Studies students only.  Obtain on-line
	authorization from the Jewish Studies Academic Advisor.
Above section carries culture studies credit
Above section open to undergraduates only
Above section meets with another section of Hist-B 323

The Holocaust is probably the most horrific and challenging
phenomenon of the 20th Century. Yet it has taken some decades for the
world to appreciate quite how much it has challenged inherited
assumptions about progress and modernity. In the last decade or so,
our understanding has been aided by the discovery of important new
sources behind the former iron curtain. Against this background of
the new historiography, this course will look at the origins and
implementation of the Holocaust and also at the legacies and memories
of the event.  The big question it pursue is how the Holocaust could
have taken place. What kind of intellectual and cultural pedigree did
it have? How firmly rooted was it in modern society or in German
culture? Alongside the Nazis, what were the roles of the wider German
population, of Jewish organisations and Allied and international
powers?
 
Three books are required reading:
Michael Berenbaum and Abraham J.Peck, "The Holocaust and History. The
known, the unknown, the disputed and the re-examined" (Indiana
University Press 1998)

David Cesarani (ed.) "The Final Solution: Origins & Implementation"
Paperback: Routledge; (March 1997)

Doris Bergen, "War & Genocide: A Concise History Of The Holocaust"
Rowman and Littlefield (2004),isbn 0-8476-9631-6.