1. HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2014 Lecture Twenty: The Holocaust

2. Stages Towards Eliminationism Jews in German Society before the Nazis Persecution and Expulsion of Jews before the War Kristallnacht 1938 Jews in Relation to Other “Degenerate Races” The Goldhagen Thesis Effect of the Occupation of Poland Ghettoization and Judenrat

3. Steps to a “Final Solution” “Intentionalist” and “Functionalist” Explanations of Decision From Deportation to Elimination Jewish Forced Labor The Wannsee Conference Himmler and the SS

4. Initial Implementation Einsatzgruppen and their Victims: 1.5 million From Concentration Camps as Anti-Jewish Sites: Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Mauthausen The Special Case of Terezin Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

5. The Camps and the Numbers Logistics of Mass Murder Gas and Ovens Auschwitz and Treblinka Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, Majdenek Effect of War on Extermination

6. Liberation and Confrontation What did Allies Know about Camps? Moments of Discovery and Liberation The Scale of Mass Murder – 5.9 Million/90% of Jews in Germany, Poland, Baltic States, Czechoslovakia “How is Art Possible After Auschwitz?” What Did it Mean?