LARTS 423 Holocaust: Germany and the Destruction of European Jews 1933-45
This course will enhance students' historical and analytic skills through close readings of, discussion based, and background lectures explaining the history, politics, literature, and psychology of the Holocaust. The course will develop students' knowledge of an especially difficult era in European and world history, as well as their insight into how the National Socialist regime first chose to pursue a program of extermination, then found the resources [both material and human] to accomplish it. Students will also deepen their understanding of both the larger political, and the smaller personal roles of [in Hilberg's construction] perpetrator, victim, and by-stander.