GER 120 - The Holocaust (1)

This course will examine the Holocaust from the perspective of social, cultural, and emotional history. We will seek to understand this genocide-its perpetrators and victims-in the context of modern German and European history, specifically interwar Germany and the rise of the Nazis, WWII, and long-standing anti-Semitism throughout Europe. Students will also interpret the eyewitness accounts and survivor memoirs that were produced in the wake of such evil and wrestle with some of the Holocaust’s most central and vexing questions: why did the Jews stay? Who was complicit? What did it mean to be a bystander? Where was God? This course will be taught in English and is designed for students of all backgrounds. Can count toward HIS major/minor. Every third year.
(Humanities) (Writing Encounter)