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THE HOLOCAUST - The Assault on Humanity
From Prejudice & Ideology to Murder, Genocide & Shoah

• Syllabus
• Preface and Credits

Lecture 1   Introduction; Dynamics of prejudice   Study Guide 1
Lecture 2a   Origins of Antisemitism; Who are the Jews? Judaism
Lecture 2b   History of Antisemitism up to the 17th century; Why the Jews?   Study Guide 2   Outline 2
Lecture 3   Antisemitism up to 1914; Why the Jews?    Study Guide 3   Outline 3a    Outline 3b
Lecture 4   German Racial Nationalism and Antisemitism up to 1914; Why Germany?   Study Guide 4   Outline 4
Lecture 5   World War I & its Aftermath; The Weimar Republic, 1918-32   Study Guide 5   Outline 5   Outline 5a
Lecture 6   Rise of Hitler and Nazism   Study Guide 6   Outline 6


II. The 3rd Reich & the Holocaust Era, Jan 1933-May 1945
The Murderous Ideological Wars

A. Germany under National Socialism, the Racial State, Prewar Period, 1933-39
Lecture 7   Introduction; Nazi Fascism and the Modern Totalitarian State   Study Guide 7  
Lecture 8a   Legal Dictatorship under the Third Reich   Study Guide 8a   Outline 7 and 8a
Lecture 8b   The War Against the Jews - The Legal Onslaught   Study Guide 8b   Outline 8b
Lecture 8c   The War Against Other "Undesirables;" Resisters: Jehovah's Witnesses; Responses   Study Guide 8c   Outline 8c
Lecture 8d   German Foreign Policy - The Road to War   Study Guide 8d   Outline 8d

B. Quest for Lebensraum, the “New Order” & Holocaust, World War II, 1939-45

1. Exporting Nazism, Dehumanization & Murderous Solutions, 1939-41
Lecture 9   WWII; Euthanasia; Poland - The Turn to Genocide   Study Guide 9   Outline 9
Lecture 10a   The War against the Jews in Poland - Ghettoization (1)   Study Guide 10a   Outline 10a
Lecture 10b   The War Against the Jews - Europe, Europe controlled North Africa & Libya (2)    Study Guide 10b

2. Death by Design, Shoah, Death Camps, 1941-45
Lecture 11a   The War Against the Jews - Annihilation, the “Final Solution” (1)   Study Guide 11a
Lecture 11b   The War against the Jews in Europe & North Africa; Camps (2)   Study Guide 11b
Lecture 11c   The War Against Other Undesirable "Enemies of the State"   Study Guide 11c
Lecture 12   Responses: Resisters   Study Guide 12
Lecture 13   Rescuers. Bystanders - the "Sounds of Silence"   Study Guide 13
Lecture 14   End of the Third Reich - The Last Years, 1943-45   Study Guide 14

III. Aftermath and Revival
Lecture 15   Aftermath and Revival   Study Guide 15

Modern Israel and Arab/Israeli Relations

Judaism

Jews in Islam - Tunisia

• Course Description
• Lecture 1
• Lecture 2
• Lecture 3