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The Holocaust
HST 112
Lecture 18
Ethan Pollock (3/24/04)
The Holocaust
I. Anti-Semitism and Nazi Policies in the 30s
II. Jews in Occupied Europe
III. The “Final Solution” and the
Concentration Camps
IV. The Perpetrators and the Question of
History
I. Anti-Semitism and the Nazi
Policies of the 1930s
A. Jews in Diaspora in the Age of Nationalism
B. Nuremberg Laws (1935)
C. Kristallnacht (November 1938)
D. Other Targets: Communists, Gypsies,
Homosexuals, etc.
E. Refugees
II. Jews in Occupied Europe
A. Western Europe
B. Central Europe and The Balkans
C. Ukraine and Russia
D. Poland – Ghettos
III. The “Final Solution” and the
Camps
A. Concentration Camps
B. T4 Program
C. Death Camps --
IV. The Perpetrators
• coerced?
• obeying authority?
• social pressure to conform?
• callous and selfish?
• didn’t understand?
-------• no problem killing Jews
• context of death and destruction