Seminar schedule The Holocaust: An Integrative History hi31Z

Christian Gerlach, “The Wannsee Conference, the Fate of German Jews, and Hitler's Decision in Principle to Exterminate All European Jews,” Journal of Modern History 70,4 (1998): 759-812.

Browning, Ordinary Men, selection
Presentation: Hannes Heer and Klaus Naumann, War of extermination : the German Military in World War II, 1941-1944 (New York: Berghahn, 2000).

Ying
8. November 20: The local populations and persecution of Jews [date will change]

Jan Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne Poland

(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).

Jan Grabowski, “Rural Society and the Jews in Hiding: Elders, Nights Watches, Firefighters, Hostages and Manhunts,” Yad Vashem Studies 40 (2012).

Bergen, pp. 119-127.
Presentation: Barbara Lambauer, Otto Abetz et les Francais, ou l’envers de la Collaboration (Paris: Fayard, 2001).

Amie
9. November 27: Jewish Councils

Isaiah Trunk, Judenrat: the Jewish councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi occupation (New York: Stein and Day, 1977).

Essays from Dan Diner, Beyond the conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).
Presentation: Beate Meyer, A Fatal Balancing Act. The Dilemma oft he Reich Association of Jews in Germany, 1939-1945 (New York/Oxford, Berghahn: 2013).

Abbie
10. December 4: Ghettos and everyday life

Eva Mändlova-Roubickova, We're Alive and Life Goes On: A Theresienstadt Diary, trans by Zaia Alexander (New York: H. Holt, 1998), entries for 1941-1943 (scanned and circulated)

Anna Hájková, “Sexual Barter in Times of Genocide: Negotiating the Sexual Economy of the Theresienstadt Ghetto,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 38, no. 3 (spring 2013): 503-533
last week of the autumn term
11. January 8: Sexual violence: Stories and Silences

Doris Bergen, “Sexual Violence in the Holocaust: Unique and Typical?” in Lessons and Legacies VII: The Holocaust in International Perspective, ed. Dagmar Herzog (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2006): 179-201.

Elizabeth Heinemann, Sexuality and Nazism: The Doubly Unspeakable?" Journal of the History of Sexuality 11.1 and 2 (2002): 22-66.
Presentation: essays by Robert Sommer and Regina Mühlhäuser in Dagmar Herzog, ed. Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century (New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Monika Flaschka, “Only Pretty Women Were Raped:” The Effect of Sexual Violence on Gender Identities in the Concentration Camps in Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust, eds. Sonja M. Hedgepeth and Rochelle G. Saidel (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2010): 77-93.

Harvey
12. January 15: Concentration camps

Nikolaus Wachsmann, “The dynamics of destruction: The development of the concentration camps, 1933-1945,” in Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany: The New Histories, Jane Caplan and Nikolaus Wachsmann, eds. (London & New York: Routledge, 2009): 17-43.