HIST 43853 - (was 4338) Holocaust

Was HIST 4338. The Holocaust as both a German and international event, with special emphasis on the role of the United States. Major topics include the tradition of anti-Semitism and the rise of biological racism in the Western world, the Nazi seizure of power, the politics of immigration especially in the United States, the planning and execution of the Final Solution, the complicity of non-Germans, Jewish and non-Jewish resistance, the mixed role of the Allied powers especially the United States, the settling of accounts at Nuremberg, and the impact of the Holocaust on survivors and anti-Semitism in the United States.