Monday through Friday, April 11-15, 2016
Long periods: Research presentations continue. Independent research and work time for Capstone Proposals and Oral History Interviews.
Day 1, Monday, 4/11: The Origins of the Holocaust.
In-class: Read the primary source handouts on the Nazi eugenics and euthanasia programs, and use the SOAPSTONE rubric to annotate the documents for class discussion.
Key Terms and Persons: Eugenics, Sterilization, the T-4 Program, euthanasia, Poland as the "laboratory of experiment", Operation Barbarossa, and Einsatzgruppen.
Homework for Day 2/3: Read the handout from Rudolf Augstein's interview with Daniel J. Goldhagen, and answer the following questions.
Homework question#1: What is Goldhagen's argument, key points, and evidence about the origins of the Holocaust and why Germans participated.
Homework question #2: Do you buy his argument, or can you also identify any limits or problems with his argument?
Day 2/3 - Long periods: Research presentations continue. Independent research and work time for Capstone Proposals and Oral History Interviews.
Day 2/3 - Short periods: Ordinary People and the Holocaust.
In-class: Discuss the arguments and evidence from Rudolf Augstein's interview with Daniel J. Goldhagen on "Hitler's Willing Executioners", and continue lectures and discussions of Nazi genocidal projects. See primary sources listed below.
Document#1: The Barbarossa Decree, by General Keitel.
Document#2: The Commissar Order, by Adolf Hitler.
Document#3: Escape from Treblinka.
Homework for Day 4: Read handout from Christopher Browning, "One Day in Jozefow." Please take notes on the author's argument(s) and evidence, and prepare for graded in-class discussion. ALSO: How do Browning and Goldhagen's arguments compare?
Day 4: Hitler's Willing Executioners: The Final Solution and the Question of Justice.
In-class: Continue discussion of the Holocaust, especially radicalization and resistance to Nazism, based on the assigned primary sources. Focus discussion on Browning and Goldhagen's arguments.
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