The Holocaust - An Introduction (I): Nazi Germany: Ideology, The Jews and the World
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Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
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English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Courses and Certificate Fees
Fees Informations | Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
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INR 2422 | yes | Coursera |
The Syllabus
Videos
- Course trailer
- Introduction: why the Holocaust, why history, why this course?
- Why the Jews? Traditional anti-Semitism as a central background
- The uniqueness of Nazi anti-Semitism and its place in the NS ideology
- 1933: Gleichschaltung
- 1933-1939: Life in Nazi Germany
- 1933-1939: Jewish life in Nazi Germany
- 1938 - A Major Turning Point
Readings
- Saul Friedlander, Nazi Germany and the Jews
- Wolfgang Benz, “Exclusion as a Stage in Persecution: The Jewish Situation in Germany, 1933-1941”
Videos
- Nazi military occupations and varying occupation policies
- From the Historian's Desk - Visual Documentation
- Focus on Poland
- Focus on France and Paris
- A World at War and world Jewry
- Europe and its Jews between the two world wars
Readings
- Judith Levin and Daniel Uziel, “Ordinary Men Extraordinary Photos – Photographs”
- Denis Peschanski, “The Statues on Jews – October 3, 1940 and June 2, 1942”
Practice exercise
- Check you’ve understood what you’ve learned so far
Videos
- The Jewish Perspective and the Badge of Shame
- Ghettoization
- The Warsaw Ghetto
- Isolation with no Walls
- Leadership
- Future Expectations and Rumors
- The Holocaust - an introduction - Partial conclusions
Readings
- Instructions by Heydrich on Policy and Operations concerning Jews in the Occupied Territories, September 21, 1939
- Miron, Guy and Shlomit Shulhani, "General Introduction", The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos During the Holocaust
- Michael Wildt, "Generation of the Unbound: The Leadership Corps of the Reich Security Main Office"
- What's next?
Practice exercise