Grading:

40% Class participation. This includes regular worksheets we do in class. Attendance is very important! (Missed classes will affect the grade)

30% Essays.

10% Quizzes on reading assignments

20% Final project / Final Exam

5% Extra credit for presentation in class. No presentations during last week of classes.

 

Posted by
Walter Tschacher
January 26, 2012

 

January 31 / February 2

  • Introduction “The Holocaust Chronicle”
  • Jews in 18th Century Germany (Excerpts from Richie Robertson's "The 'Jewish Question' in German Literature, 1749-1939")
  • We start reading G. E. Lessing’s Jews (Die Juden, 1749)
  • Night and Fog by Alain Resnais

February 7 / 9

  • Discussion of Lessing’s Jews
  • Die Welle (The Wave, 2008): Based on a true story. THE WAVE shows just how easily the seeds of fascism can be sown.

February 14 / 16

  • Nazi Propaganda Film: Jud Süß
  • Techniques of film propaganda
  • History vs. fiction: Historical Süß Oppenheimer vs. Oppenheimer in Jud Süß

February 21 / 23

  • Read this review of Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem
  • Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem. (Provides details of how the „Final Solution“ was executed.) Chapters I-VI
  • Here's an informative Web site on Eichmann
  • Information about the "Final Solution"

February 28 / March 1

  • Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem. Chapters VII-XII
  • Excerpts of BBC documentary on Auschwitz

Due March 8: Essay No. 1

March 6 / 8

  • Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem. Chapters XIII-XV, Epilogue, and Postcript
  • Film: The Ninth Day (On the persecution of Catholic Clergy)

March 13 / 15

March 20 / 22

  • Victor Klemperer: I Will Bear Witness 1942-1945: A Diary of the Nazi Years. Read pages 185-235 and 328-386.
  • Discussion of Rosenstraße

March 27 / 29

  • Continue Rosenstraße
  • Victor Klemperer: I Will Bear Witness 1942-1945: A Diary of the Nazi Years. Read pages 391-514

April 3 /5

Spring Break

April 10 /12

  • Erich Hackl: Farewell Sidonia
  • The Concentration Camp “Theresienstadt”

Due April 12: Essay No. 2

April 17 / 19

  • Stefan Zweig: The Royal Game
  • Film: Jacob the Liar
  • The Łódź Ghetto (Ghetto Litzmannstadt)
     

April 24 / 26

May 1 / 3

  • Bernhard Schlinck: The Reader
  • Film: Sophie Scholl

May 8 / 10

  • Summary of course

 

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