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SCHOOL OF SCHOOL OF SCHOOL OF SCHOOL OF HUMANITIESHUMANITIESHUMANITIESHUMANITIES
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The Holocaust and GenocideThe Holocaust and GenocideThe Holocaust and GenocideThe Holocaust and Genocide in in in in
LEARNING AND TEACHINLEARNING AND TEACHINLEARNING AND TEACHINLEARNING AND TEACHING RATIONALEG RATIONALEG RATIONALEG RATIONALE ...................................................................... 4
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICYAND SAFETY POLICYAND SAFETY POLICYAND SAFETY POLICY ........................................................ 26
STUDENT EQUITY AND DSTUDENT EQUITY AND DSTUDENT EQUITY AND DSTUDENT EQUITY AND DIVERSITYIVERSITYIVERSITYIVERSITY ............................................................................ 26
LECTURES, Biomedical Theatre A (E27)LECTURES, Biomedical Theatre A (E27)LECTURES, Biomedical Theatre A (E27)LECTURES, Biomedical Theatre A (E27)
7 January History of antisemitism
Pre-1939 European Jewish history
8 January Nazi Rise to Power
Triumph of the Will – in-class film (excerpts)
9 January Nazi Policies 1933-39
Emigration – the World and the Jews 1933-1939
10 January Survivor talk (Peter Rossler, a survivor of the Lodz ghetto and
Auschwitz)
Eugenics and the ‘Euthanasia programme’
14 January Ghettos during World War 2
A Film Unfinished – in-class film (excerpts)
15 January Radicalization of the Jewish policies (the War in the East)
The Final Solution
16 January Concentration and extermination camps
Jewish resistance
17 January Local collaborators and rescuers (Polish-Jewish relations)
In Darkness – in-class film (excerpts)
21 January Nazi Satellites and the Holocaust
Other victims of Nazi genocides (Roma, Jehovah’s Witnesses,
Homosexuals)
22 January Allies and the Holocaust (1939-1945)
Aftermath
23 January Representation of the Holocaust
Shoah – in-class film (excerpts)
24 January Genocides in the twentieth century (Armenian genocide, Cambodia,
Rwanda, Former Yugoslavia)
25 January Exam
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History of antiHistory of antiHistory of antiHistory of anti----Judaism and Judaism and Judaism and Judaism and anananantitititi----SemitismSemitismSemitismSemitism
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Raul Hilberg, ‘The Destruction of the European Jews: Precedents’, in Omer Bartov (ed.), The Holocaust. Origins, Implementation, Aftermath (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 21-42.
Compare provided primary sources and discuss the transformation of anti-Jewish prejudices
across centuries.
How did anti-Jewish prejudices develop over the time?
What were the sources and origins of anti-Jewish sentiments in European societies?
What is the difference between anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism?
What was the basis of racial anti-Semitism?
How did anti-Jewish prejudices develop in the age of nationalism?
Who and why wrote the so-called Protocols of the Elders of Zion?
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Nazi Nazi Nazi Nazi ideology, ideology, ideology, ideology, propaganda and the Jewspropaganda and the Jewspropaganda and the Jewspropaganda and the Jews
ReadingReadingReadingReadingssss::::
Adolf Hitler, ‘Nation and Race’, in Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang (eds.), The Holocaust. A Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 68-81.
Jan Grabowski, ‘German Anti-Jewish Propaganda in the Generalgouvernement, 1939–1945:
Inciting Hate through Posters, Films, and Exhibitions’, in Holocaust and Genocide
‘Children’s story from Ernst Hiemer, The Poisonous Mushroom’, in Hochstadt, pp. 52-55.
Pictures from Jeffrey Herf
http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/
Tutorial questionsTutorial questionsTutorial questionsTutorial questions (discuss images from the course reader and USHMM webpage)(discuss images from the course reader and USHMM webpage)(discuss images from the course reader and USHMM webpage)(discuss images from the course reader and USHMM webpage)::::
Summarize the ideology of ‘Race and Nation’ as depicted in Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
How did the Nazi propaganda depict the Jews between 1933 and 1945?
What was the purpose of Nazi propaganda?
How did Leni Riefenstahl depict the rebirth of the German nation? (in-class film)
What was the role played by the Nazi propaganda in the segregation of German Jews before
1939?
How did the Nazi propaganda appeal to German children?
What is the role played by propaganda in totalitarian societies?
Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:
David Bankier, The Germans and the final solution: public opinion under Nazism (Oxford:
Balckwell, 1992).
Saul Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews. Volume 1, The years of persecution, 1933-1939
(London: Phoenix, 1998).
Jeffrey Herf, The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War 2 and the Holocaust
(Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 2006).
Victor Klemperer, I will bear witness: a diary of the Nazi years (New York: Random House,
1998-9).
Michael R. Marrus (ed.), The Nazi Holocaust, Volume 5. Public Opinion and Relations to the Jews in Nazi Europe (Westport: Meckler, 1989).
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Probing the depths of German antisemitism: German society and the persecution of the Jews, 1933-1941 (New York: Berghahn, 2000).
Karl A. Schleunes, The twisted road to Auschwitz; Nazi policy toward German Jews, 1933-
1939 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979).
Jewish responses to the Nazi persecution (until 1939)Jewish responses to the Nazi persecution (until 1939)Jewish responses to the Nazi persecution (until 1939)Jewish responses to the Nazi persecution (until 1939)
Readings:Readings:Readings:Readings:
Marion Kaplan, ‘Persecution and Gender: German-Jewish responses to Persecution’ in
Jonathan C. Friedman (ed.), The Routledge History of the Holocaust (London: Routledge,
2012, pp. 90-102. (available online via the UNSW Library catalogue)
Ian Kershaw, “The Persecution of the Jews and German Popular Opinion in the Third Reich”,
Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 26, (1981), pp. 261-89.
How did the German public opinion about the Jews develop during 1933-1939?
How did ordinary Germans respond to the gradual segregation and persecution of the Jews?
How did the German Jews respond to the Nazi racial policies?
What conditioned the decision of Jews to leave Germany and emigrate elsewhere?
Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:
Saul Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews. Volume 1, The years of persecution, 1933-1939
(London: Phoenix, 1998).
Marion Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair. Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (Oxford: OUP,
1998).
Victor Klemperer, I will bear witness: a diary of the Nazi years (New York: Random House,
1998-9).
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The Final Solution: Intentionalists and functionalistsThe Final Solution: Intentionalists and functionalistsThe Final Solution: Intentionalists and functionalistsThe Final Solution: Intentionalists and functionalists
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Christopher Browning, ‘The Origins of the Final Solution’, in Jonathan C. Friedman (ed.), The Routledge History of the Holocaust (London: Routledge, 2012, pp. 156-167. (available
online via the UNSW Library catalogue)
Ian Kershaw, ‘Hitler’s role in the “Final Solution”’, Yad Vashem Studies 34, 2004, pp. 7-43
(http://www.genocideeducation.ca/kershaw.pdf) Also available in Ian Kershaw, Hitler, the
Germans and the Final Solution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 89-117
(available online via the UNSW Library catalogue).
How do various historians explain the origins of the Final Solution?
How can we interpret Hitler’s early proclamations on the Jewish question?
What was the relation between the war and the Holocaust?
What happened in Wannsee in January 1942?
What was Hitler’s role in the Final Solution?
Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:
Christopher Browning, Fateful months: essays on the emergence of the final solution (New
York: Holmes and Meier, 1991).
Christopher Browning, The origins of the Final Solution : the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy,
September 1939-March 1942 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004).
Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975).
Christian Gerlach, ‘The Wannsee Conference, the Fate of German Jews, and Hitler's Decision in
Principle to Exterminate All European Jews’, in The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 70,
No. 4 (Dec., 1998), pp. 759-812 (available online)
Ian Kershaw, Hitler, the Germans and the Final Solution (New Haven: Yale University Press,
2008).
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Ordinary men or ordinary GermansOrdinary men or ordinary GermansOrdinary men or ordinary GermansOrdinary men or ordinary Germans? Motivations for mass murder? Motivations for mass murder? Motivations for mass murder? Motivations for mass murder
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Christopher Browning, ‘Ordinary Germans or Ordinary Men?’, in Michael Berenbaum and
Abraham J. Peck (eds.), The Holocaust and History. The Known, the Unknown, the
Disputed, and the Reexamined (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), pp. 252-
265.
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, ‘Ordinary Men or Ordinary Germans?’ in Michael Berenbaum and
Abraham J. Peck (eds.), The Holocaust and History. The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and
the Reexamined (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), pp. 301-307.
What do you understand as Jewish collaboration with the Nazis?
Discuss memoirs by Celel Perechodnik.
Who was Mordechai Rumkowski?
What does Primo Levi understand under the term ‘Gray zone’?
What was the function of the Jewish Councils? Were they collaborators in the destruction of
the Jews?
Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:
Gordon J. Horwitz, Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City (Cambridge, Mass.:
Belknap, 2008).
Patterns of Jewish Leadership in Nazi Europe, 1933-1945, Proceedings of the Third Yad Vashem International Historical Conference. (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1979).
Isaiah Trunk, Judenrat: the Jewish councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi occupation (New York:
Macmillan, 1972).
Isaiah Trunk, Łódź Ghetto: a history (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006).
Leonard Tushnet, The Pavement of Hell (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1972).
The Warsaw diary of Adam Czerniakow : prelude to doom (New York: Stein and Day, 1979).
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RRRResistanceesistanceesistanceesistance
RRRReadings:eadings:eadings:eadings:
Yehuda Bauer, “Jewish Resistance – Myth or Reality?,” in Rethinking the Holocaust (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), pp. 119-142.
Nechama Tec, ‘Reflections on Resistance and Gender’, in Remembering for the Future. The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide, Volume 1 (London: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 552-569.
Who was a bystander? Do you agree with the term being used in the Holocaust
historiography?
Grabowski describes the so-called Judenjagd. What was it and why did the local population
collaborate with the Nazis?
What conditioned locals’ decisions whether to help or betray the Jews?
How did Karski describe Polish-Jewish relations in occupied Poland? Why did he prepare two
versions of the account? Why and how did the versions differ?
Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:
Steven K. Baum, The psychology of genocide : perpetrators, bystanders, and rescuers
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
East European Politics and Society, Volume 25 (3), August 2011 – the whole volume focuses
on Polish-Jewish relations during World War 2 (available online).
Jan T. Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).
Raul Hilberg, Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933-1945 (New
York: Aaron Asher, 1992).
Klee, Ernst, et.al. The Good Old Days: the Holocaust as seen by its Perpetrators and Bystanders (New York: the Free Press, 1991).
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Allies and the Holocaust: Allies and the Holocaust: Allies and the Holocaust: Allies and the Holocaust: the World responds to genocidesthe World responds to genocidesthe World responds to genocidesthe World responds to genocides
RRRReadings:eadings:eadings:eadings:
Tony Kushner, ‘Different worlds: British perceptions of the Final Solution during the Second
World War’, in David Cesarani, The Final Solution. Origins and Implementation, pp.
246-268.
Miroslav Karny, ‘The Vrba and Wetzler Report’, in Yisrael Gutman – Michael Berenbaum
(eds.), Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana
What were the Auschwitz Protocols? Did they make any impact in the West?
How would you describe the responses of the Allies to the persecution of the Jews?
What conditioned, according to Kushner, the responses of the western governments?
What can the Allies’ responses to the Holocaust teach us about our contemporary responses
to genocides?
Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:
Richard Breitman – Alan M. Kraut, American refugee policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987).
Jan Karski, Story of a Secret State (Boston: Houghon Mifflin, 1944).
Tony Kushner, The persistence of prejudice : antisemitism in British society during the Second World War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989).
Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999).
William Rubinstein, Myth of Rescue: why the democracies could not have saved more Jews from the Nazis (London: Routledge, 1997).
E. Thomas Wood – Stanislw M. Jankowski, Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust
(New York: Wiley and Sons, 1996).
David S. Wyman, Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust (New York: Pantheon,
1984).
David S. Wyman, ‘Why Auschwitz Wasn’t Bombed’, in Yisrael Gutman – Michael Berenbaum
(eds.), Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana
University Press, 1994), pp. 553-568.
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RepreRepreRepreRepresentation of the Holocaust: sentation of the Holocaust: sentation of the Holocaust: sentation of the Holocaust: case studies of case studies of case studies of case studies of ShoahShoahShoahShoah aaaandndndnd MausMausMausMaus
RRRReadingeadingeadingeadingssss::::
Shoshana Felman, ‘In an Era of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah’, Yale French Studies, no. 79, Spring 1991, pp. 39-81. (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2930246)
James E Young, ‘The Holocaust as Vicarious Past: Art Spiegelman's Maus and the Afterimages
of History,’ Critical Inquiry 24, no. 3 (1998), pp. 666-699.
What is the difference, if any, between the Holocaust and genocides?
How would you define genocide? Give some examples.
What is ethnic cleansing?
Can you see any omissions in the UN Convention on Genocide? Debate.
Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:
Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), pp. 39-
67.
Donald Bloxham, ‘Organized Mass Murder: Structure, Participation, and Motivation in
Comparative Perspective’, in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 22:2, Fall 2008, pp.
203-245 (online).
Alexander Laban Hinton (ed.), Genocide: An Anthropological Reader (Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers, 2002).
A. Dirk Moses and Donald Bloxham, ‘Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing’, in Political Violence in Twentieth Century Europe, pp. 87-139.
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Suggested further reSuggested further reSuggested further reSuggested further readingadingadingading On the Holocaust:On the Holocaust:On the Holocaust:On the Holocaust:
Alan Adelson and Robert Lapides (eds,), Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege (New
York: Viking, 1989).
Jacques Adler, “The Nazi-Imposed Jewish Councils. A Critical View.” In Mark Baker, ed. History
on the Edge. Melbourne, 1997. 220-43.
Jean Amery, At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor of Auschwitz. New York,
1986.
Yitzhak Arad et al. (eds.) Documents on the Holocaust (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1981).
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Penguin,
1963).
Omer Bartov (ed.), Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermath (New York: Routledge,
2000).
Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2001).
Yehuda Bauer, The Death of the Shtetl (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).
Michael Berenbaum and Abraham Peck (eds.), The Holocaust and History: the Known, the Unknown, the Disputed and the Reexamined. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (in
association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.),
1998.
Randolph L. Braham (ed.), The Destruction of Romanian and Ukrainian Jews During the Antonescu era (Boulder: Social Science Monographs; New York: 1997).
Christopher R. Browning, Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2000).
Christopher Browning, The origins of the Final Solution : the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy,
September 1939-March 1942 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004).
Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen (London: Penguin, 1980).
David Cesarani (ed.), Genocide and Rescue: the Holocaust in Hungary 1944 (Oxford: Berg,
1997).
Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews (New York: New York : Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, 1975).
Terence Des Pres, The Survivor: an Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1976).
Thomas P. DiNapoli (ed.), The Italian Jewish experience (Stony Brook, NY: Forum Italicum,
2000).
Lucjan Dobroszycki (ed.), The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto 1941-1944 (New Haven: Yal;e
University Press, 1984).
Henry Friedlander, The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995).
Jacob Glatstein (ed.), Anthology of Holocaust Literature (New York: Atheneum, 1973).
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1996).
Yisrael Gutman, The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-43. Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1982).
Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews (New Haven: Yale University Press,
2003).
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Radu Ioanid, The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000).
Louis de Jong, The Netherlands and Nazi Germany (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 1990).
Chaim Kaplan, C. The Scroll of Agony. The Warsaw Diary of Chaim Kaplan (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1999).
Ernst Klee et.al. (eds.), The Good Old Days: the Holocaust as seen by its Perpetrators and Bystanders (New York: the Free Press, 1991).
Ian Kershaw, Hitler, the Germans and the Final Solution (New Haven: Yale University Press,
2008).
Kramer, T. D. From Emancipation to Catastrophe: the Rise and Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry
(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000).
Herman Langbein, Against all Hope: Resistance in the Nazi Concentration Camps (New York:
Paragon, 1994).
Lawrence Langer, Admitting the Holocaust (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Primo Levi, If This is a Man (New York: Orion, 1959
Abraham Lewin, A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto (Oxford: Blackwell: 1988).
Michael R. Marrus, The Holocaust in History (London: Penguin 1989)..
Michael Marrus and Robert Paxton. “The Nazis and the Jews in Occupied Western Europe
1940-1944.” Journal of Modern History, 54 (1982): 687-714.
Bob Moore, Victims and Survivors: The Nazi Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 (London: Arnold, 1997).
Benno Müller-Hill, Murderous Science: Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies,
and Others, Germany 1933-1945. Translated by G. Fraser. (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1988).
Guenter Lewy, The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies Oxford (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2000).
Calel Perechodnik, Am I a Murderer? Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman (Oxford:
0Westview Press, 1996).
Jacob Presser, Ashes in the Wind: The Destruction of Dutch Jewry (London, Souvenir Press,
1968).
Richard Rhodes, Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002).
Jacob Rosenberg, East of Time (N.S.W.: Brandl and Schlesinger, 2005).
Karl A. Schleunes, The Twisted Road to Auschwitz: Nazi Policy Toward German Jews 1933-1939 (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1970).
Wolfgang Sofsky, The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1997).
Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist : the extraordinary true story of one man's survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 (New York: Picador, 1999).
Jonathan Steinberg, All or Nothing: the Axis and the Holocaust, 1941-1943 (New York:
Routledge, 1991).
Alexander Stille, Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism (New
York: Summit Books, 1991).
Tzvetan Todorov, Facing the Extreme. Moral Life in Concentration Camps (New York:
Metropolitan Books, 1996).
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Avraham Tory, Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 1990).
Samuel Totten, William S. Parsons and Israel Charny, eds. Century of Genocide, 2d ed. (New
York: Routledge, 2004).
Isaish Trunk, Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi Occupation (New
York: Macmillan, 1972).
Paul Webster, Pétain’s Crime: The Full Story of French Collaboration in the Holocaust (London: Macmillan, 1990).
John K. Roth – Elisabeth Maxwell (eds.), Remembering for the Future: The Holocaust in the Age of Genocide (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001).
Elie Wiesel, Night (London: Penguin, 1960).
David S. Wyman (ed.), The World Reacts to the Holocaust (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1996).
Leni Yahil, The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry 1933-1945 (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1990).
Susan Zuccotti, The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews (New York: Basic Books, 1993).
Good and recent overviews on the Holocaust:Good and recent overviews on the Holocaust:Good and recent overviews on the Holocaust:Good and recent overviews on the Holocaust: David Bankier (ed.), Probing the Depths of German Antisemitism (New York and Oxford:
Berghahn Books, 2000).
Richard Bessell, Nazism and War (New York: Modern Library, 2004).
Donald Bloxham and Tony Kushner. The Holocaust: Critical Historical Approaches (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005).
Berel Lang and Simone Gigliotti (eds.), The Holocaust: A Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005).
Peter Longerich, The Unwritten Order: Hitler’s Role in the Final Solution (London: Tempus,
2001).
You should also stay abreast of current events reported in the media which bear on the You should also stay abreast of current events reported in the media which bear on the You should also stay abreast of current events reported in the media which bear on the You should also stay abreast of current events reported in the media which bear on the
issues of the course.issues of the course.issues of the course.issues of the course.
This will be of primary importance for class participation and discussion. Suggestions for
available resources are:
NewspapersNewspapersNewspapersNewspapers
The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Sydney Morning Herald; The Australian; Guardian Weekly, Jerusalem Post, Haaretz
TelevisionTelevisionTelevisionTelevision
Foreign Correspondent (ABC)
Four Corners (ABC)
World News (SBS)
Dateline (SBS)
The Cutting Edge (SBS)
Relevant documentaries (ABC/SBS)
Important websitesImportant websitesImportant websitesImportant websites
www.ushmm.org
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www.yadvashem.org
www.yivoencyclopaedia.org
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Student evaluative feedback on this course is welcomed and is gathered periodically, using
among other means UNSW’s Course and Teaching Evaluation and Improvement (CATEI)
process.
Student feedback is taken seriously, and continual improvements are made to the course
based in part on such feedback. Significant changes to the course will be communicated to
subsequent cohorts of students taking the course.
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Assessment is based on one essay, in-class work/participation, and the in-class test on 25
January.
In-class work and presentation are meant to stress the student’s preparation of daily reading
assignments and to develop their comfort and skill at presenting thoughts in a logical manner
in front of their peers. The final in-class test is meant to show the student’s overall command
of the material and their ability to synthetise that material in assessing the larger themes of
A student may apply to the Lecturer/Tutor for an extension to the submission date of an
assignment. Requests for extension must be made on the appropriate form and before the
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more than 10 calendar days after the due or extended date will not be allocated a mark.
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To successfully complete this unit you are required to attend minimum 80% of classes. If this
requirement is not met you will fail the unit. The Lecturer will keep attendance records.
ACADEMIC HONESTY ANDACADEMIC HONESTY ANDACADEMIC HONESTY ANDACADEMIC HONESTY AND PLAGIARISMPLAGIARISMPLAGIARISMPLAGIARISM
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