1. HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2013 Lecture Twenty: The Holocaust

2. Stages Towards Eliminationism Persecution and Expulsion of Jews before the War The Goldhagen Thesis The Occupation of Poland Ghettoization Jewish Forced Labor

3. The Decision to Exterminate The Wannsee Conference Himmler and the SS Einsatzgruppen and their Victims: 1.5 million From Concentration Camp to Extermination Camp: Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Mauthausen Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

4. The Camps and the Numbers Logistics of Mass Murder Gas and Ovens Auschwitz and Treblinka Chelmno, Sobibor, Majdenek Victims of the Extermination Camps: 3.5 million

5. The German Home Front The Problem of Supplying War Albert Speer and the Armaments Ministry Forced Labor The Beginning of the Bombing Campaign The Destruction of Hamburg

6. Collapse The Russian Advance Continuing Operation of the Extermination Camps D-Day, the Ring Closes Intensified Bombing Campaign Failure of Military Industry The Battle of Berlin