The Holocaust

Midterm in class, April 1st (this is not a joke, try not to make a fool of yourself on the exam) terms for review

Background Reading
Merriman, History of Modern Europe, vol. 2, on the "Final Solution," pp. 1177-1188.

Discussion: 1-2 April 2009, Ordinary People & Extraordinary Acts
Students whose last names begin with R-Z must submit written answers to Reading Questions this week.
Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (1992); available for purchase in the book store. You ought to read all of this. At the very least, be prepared to discuss: the preface (pages xv-xxii) and pages 1-48, 143-189.

Further Reading
Omer Bartov, Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity (2000).

Christopher Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution: the Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, 1939-1942 (2004).

Lucy S. Dawidowicz, ed., A Holocaust Reader (1976).

Martin Gilbert, The Holocaust: History of the Jews of Europe during the Second World War (1987).

Jan T. Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland (1991).

Marion Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (1998).

Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity (1959).

Mark Mazower, Inside Hitler's Greece: the Experience of Occupation, 1941-1944 (1993).

Norman Naimark, Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe (2000).

Robert Paxton and Michael Marrus, Vichy France and the Jews (1981).