The Holocaust
8 points * 2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week * First semester * Clayton
European Jews, development of racial thought and modern antisemitism, Jewish communities in the interwar period, antisemitism and German politics, Nazi racial policies, the ideology of mass murder, the organisation of concentration and extermination camps, Jewish behaviour in crisis and extremity, attitudes to the treatment of Jews in occupied Europe and the Allied nations, moral and political implications.
Assessment
Written (4000 words) * Examination (2 hours)
Recommended texts
Dawidowicz LThe war against the Jews Penguin 1975
Gilbert M The Holocaust Collins, 1986
Hillberg RThe deconstruction of the European Jews Holmes and Meier, 1985