Lecture 17 Ð the
Holocaust
I.
Announcements and Review
A. Announcements
B. Review
C. Questions
1. What was the final
solution?
2.
What was the relationship of the final solution and the racialized
treatment of Slavs, gypsies and other
groups with the Second World War.
II.
Introduction
A. Term Holocaust
1. state-sponsored,
systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry and other Nazi
victims by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1939 and 1945.
2.
victims
B.
1933-1939
III.
Final
Solution 1939-1945
A.
193901941
B.
Final
Solution 1941+ and Mass Executions
C.
Camps
D.
Resistance
Questions
1.
Who is
Primo Levi? How does he describe
the camps and what does he say that he learned there? Who are the drowned? The
saved?
2.
What are the different adaptation mechanisms that Levi
describes? Which description did you find particularly compelling and why?
3.
Is a
cartoon of the Holocaust appropriate?
What does Spiegelman try to convey in his cartoon?
4.
What
animals does Spiegelman use to represent different religious and national
groups? Why?
5.
What was
the relationship between the Holocaust and WWII?
TERMS
Holocaust
Roma-Sinti
Boycott
Aryanization
Nuremberg Laws
Kristallnacht
Herschel GrŸnspan
Ghettoization, ghettos
Reinhard Heydrich
Einsatzgruppen
Aktionen
Euthanasia
Internment camps
Labor camps
Death camps
Auschwitz
Sonderkommando
Resistance