The Holocaust 2

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• Jewish experiences of, and responses to, the Holocaust
• the variety of experiences of occupation, collaboration and resistance in occupied Europe during the the Second World War
• the end phase of the Holocaust and the liberation, the aftermaths and the memory of the Holocaust since 1945
• The experiences of other victim groups
• the unfolding of the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime during the Second World War

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate critical time management skills by handling several tasks competently at the same time.
• work both individually and within the context of a small group.

This module focuses on the unfolding of the Nazi genocide of the Jews and other victims in the Second World War. It explores processes of ghettoization, population transfer and forced labour against the background of the occupation of Europe; the transition to systematic mass murder in the wake of the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941; the extermination camps; case studies of collaboration, persecution and resistance in east and west Europe; Jewish experiences and responses; the end of the Holocaust and the liberation; the immediate aftermaths and legal reckonings; the memory of the Holocaust since 1945. Perpetrator histories and victims’ experiences are explored both through documents of the murderers and surviving letters, diaries, community chronicles, memoirs, and other texts authored by victims.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include

seminars

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

Learning activities include

student presentations

independent study and research

group discussion

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Neil Gregor (2000). Nazism. Oxford.

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

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

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

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