History 225: The Holocaust
Schedule and Assignments
Fall 2003
I.
Introduction
1.
September 2 Introduction and
Overview Film: Survivors of the Holocaust
II.
Anti-Semitism, Jewish Life in Europe and Nazi Germany to 1939
2.
September 9
Jewish Life and Anti-Jewish Prejudice from Ancient to Modern
Times
Read
Botwinick, History,
chapters 1 and 2, and Reader, chapters 1 and 2
3.
September 16 The Rise of National Socialism in Germany Read Botwinick, History,
chapters 3 and 4, and Reader, chapters 4 and 5
Film: Excerpts from Triumph of the Will
4.
September 23 The Nazi Revolution and its Impact:
Read Botwinick, History, chapter 5, and Reader, chapter 5;
Film:
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories
of the Kindertransport
5.
September 30 Persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany:
Expulsion and
Emigration,
1933-1939:
Read Botwinick, History,
chapter 6, and Reader, chapter 6; Film: Deceit and Indifference:
America and the Holocaust;
Submit journals
6.
October 7 First exam, 7-8:00 pm
Film:
One Survivor Remembers (starts at 8:05)
III.
World War Two and the Destruction
of the European Jews, 1939-1945
7.
October 14 The Nazis Strike
Read Botwinick, History,
chapter 7, Reader, chapter 7.
8.
October 21 The Third “Solution”: Ghettoes
Read Botwinick, History,
chapter 8; Reader, chapter 8.
Film: Lodz Ghetto
9.
October 28 The Fourth “Solution”: Killing Squads
Read Botwinick, History, chapter 9; Reader, chapter 9. Film:
Conspiracy
10.
November 4 The “Final Solution”: Death
by Mass Production Film: The Grey Zone
11.
November 11 Second exam, 7-8:00 pm;
Film:
The Last Days (starts at 8:05)
IV. The
Impact of the Holocaust, Then and Now
12.
November 18 Resistance and
Rescue Read Botwinick, History,
chapter 10 and Reader, chapter 10; Film: Weapons of the Spirit
13.
November 25 After the War:
start reading
Szpilman, the Pianist * Film: The Long Way Home
14.
December 2 Remembrance;
Film: Anne Frank Remembered
15.
December 9 Conclusions: Film: The Pianist;
Submit
journals, complete for entire semester
16.
December 16 Final
exam
7:45-9:45 pm