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Sep 18, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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HI 206 - The Holocaust (3) The images are horrific but sadly familiar: killing fields where victims were “murdered with bullets,” trains rolling filled with frightened men, women, and children on their way to gas chambers and crematories - factories of death. The persecution and murder of Europe’s Jews, the Sinti-Roma, homosexual men, “Asocials,” people with disabilities, and countless Polish, Soviet, and other peoples by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945 maintains its hold on the popular imagination and its importance in modern world history. This course is a detailed analysis of the Holocaust (1933-1945), which focuses on two major issues: 1) the major historical questions in explaining the Holocaust as a historical event and 2) the issues of historical memory and representation, such as those found in memorialization of the Holocaust. Students will read and interpret primary sources from perpetrators, bystanders, and victims of the Holocaust and critically appraise secondary works (scholars’ interpretations of the Holocaust from a variety of historical and other disciplinary perspectives), which are essential in understanding history as a discipline. Prerequisite: EN 111 or appropriate assessment score. 2020 CORE: Liberal Arts, History.
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