Seminar schedule The Holocaust: An Integrative History hi31Z

Film: Grey Zone
13. January 22: Prisoner society in the camps

Jane Caplan, “Gender and the Concentration Camps,” in Caplan/Wachsmann, pp. 82-107.

Liana Millu, Smoke over Birkenau (New York: Jewish Publication Society, 1991): 177-197.
Presentation:

Hermann Langbein, People in Auschwitz

or

Jorge Semprún, What a Beautiful Sunday! (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982).

Richard
14. January 29: Perpetrators and guards

Karin Orth, “The concentration camp personnel,” in Caplan/Wachsmann, pp. 44-57.

Chris Dillon??

Elissa Mailänder-Koslov, “Going East:” Colonial experiences and practices of violence among female and male Majdanek camp guards (1941-1944), Journal for Genocide Research, vol. 10, nr. 4 (2008): 559-578.

Presentation: Sereny, Into that Darkness: An Examination of Conscience (New York: Vintage Books, 1983).

Jon and Jordan
15. February 5: Resistance

Hermann Langbein, People in Auschwitz (Chapel Hill: University of North Caroline Press & USHMM, 2003): ch. Resistance (240-272).

Lenore Weitzman, Women of Courage: The Kashariyot (Couriers) in the Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust, in Lessons and Legacies VI, ed. Jeffry Diefendorf (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996): 112-154.
Presentation: Gad Beck, An Underground life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin, trans. Allison Brown (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999).

OR

Nechama Tec, Defiance: The Bielski Partisans (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993).

Megan
16. February 12: no class, reading week
17. February 19: Mixed marriages and people with mixed background

Beate Meyer, “The Mixed Marriage: A Guarantee of Survival or a Reflection of German Society during the Nazi Regime?” in Probing the depths of German antisemitism: German society and the persecution of the Jews, 1933-1941 ed. David Bankier (New York: Berghahn, 2000): 54-77.

Selection from Klemperer diaries.

Ingeborg Hecht, Invisible Walls: A German Family Under the Nuremberg Walls, trans. J. Maxwell Brownjohn (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985), selection.

Presentation: Nathan Stoltzfus, Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Berlin (New York: Norton, 1996).

Huw
18. February 26: Persecution of homosexuals

Geoffrey J. Giles, “‘The Most Unkindest Cut of All’: Castration, Homosexuality, and Nazi Justice.” Journal of Contemporary History 27, no. 1 (1992): 41-61.

Wolfgang Röll, “Homosexual Inmates in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.” Journal of Homosexuality 31, no. 4, (1996): 1-28.

Clips of video interviews from the University of Southern California Visual History Foundation.

Presentations:

Wanda Półtawska, And I am afraid of my dreams, trans. Mary Craig (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1987).

Insa Eschebach, ed., Homophobie und Devianz (Berlin: Metropol, 2012).

Danny
19. March 5: Going into hiding

Kaplan, ch. 8.

Marie Jalowicz Simon, Gone to the Ground (London: Clerkenwell Press, 2015).
Presentation: Richard Lutjens, Jews in Hiding in Nazi Berlin, 1941-1945 (PhD Dissertation, Northwestern University, 2012.)

Will