The Holocaust 1

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• develop a coherently-written argument based on an engagement with primary sources and secondary texts.
• reflect on the wide-ranging impact of the Holocaust, in particular in regard to memory.
• analyse a wide range of primary sources (including images), with regard to their specific context, and comment succinctly on their significance
• identify and engage with the most important historiographical texts on the subject.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the history of the rise of Nazism, of Nazi Germany, and in particular of the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi regime
• Jewish responses to Nazi persecution
• the experience of other victims of the Nazi regime
• The background to the Holocaust, its antecedents, and the nature of antisemitism before 1933

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• collect data and information, evaluate it and synthesise it within your own work
• demonstrate critical time management skills by handling several tasks competently at the same time.

The emphasis of this module is on exploring how far the Holocaust may be placed within wider histories of violence and how far it resists locating in this way. It explores the contexts of emergence from the late nineteenth century onwards; the nature and purchase of antisemitism in the early twentieth century; the rise of National Socialism and the nature of the Nazi regime; the challenge of integrating perpetrator, victim and bystander perspectives; the persecution of German, Austrian and Czech Jews down to the outbreak of war; and the experiences and responses of Jewish victims to that persecution.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include

Seminars, secondary and primary evidence discussion

close analysis and interpretation of primary sources in different genres (in English translation).

Learning activities include

independent study and research.

group discussion.

essay workshops

the use and critical discussion of documentaries and films

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

David Cesarani, (ed.) (1994). The Final Solution. Routledge.

Daniel J. Goldhagen (1995). Hitler’s Willing Executioners. Knopf.

Omer Bartov (ed.) (2000). The Holocaust. Routledge.

Jeremy Noakes and Pridham, G (2000). Nazism 1919-1945, vols 2+4. Exeter.

Mark Roseman (2001). The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting. Penguin.

Jeremy Noakes and Pridham, G (2000). Nazism 1919-1945, vols 1+3. Exeter.

Neil Gregor (2000). Nazism. Oxford.

Philip Burrin (1994). Hitler and the Jews. Arnold.

Saul Friedländer (1998). Nazi Germany and the Jews. Weidenfeld & Nicholson.

Ulrich Herbert (ed.) (2000). National Socialist extermination policy. Berghahn.

Ian Kershaw (2001). Hitler, Vol. 1 and 2. Penguin.

Götz Aly (1998). The Final Solution. Arnold.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External