HIST 3056

The destruction of most of European Jewry by Nazism and its helpers during the Second World War is studied in the context of centuries-old religious antisemitism, nineteenth-century Jewish emancipation and the emergence of racist ideology, the political and social situation of Jews in eastern and western Europe after World War I, “legal” and bureaucratic persecution of German Jews culminating in mass killing at Auschwitz and other death camps, and the response of bystander nations to the perpetration of genocide. RECOMMENDED: HIST 2032.03, 2062.03, 2021.03, 2082.03, 2112.03.