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Hist 33D, L 2: What was the Holocaust?. Draw a picture of what comes to your mind first, second, third. Write down some words or phrases. Questions from last time. What do you expect to learn in this course? What do you want to learn in this course? Why are you here (UCSB, in this course)?
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Hist 33D, L 2:What was the Holocaust? Draw a picture of what comes to your mind first, second, third. Write down some words or phrases
Questions from last time • What do you expect to learn in this course? • What do you want to learn in this course? • Why are you here (UCSB, in this course)? • What is “the Holocaust”?
“Holocaust” on google Museum in Washington Liberation of Buchenwald Auschwitz album Stockholm Int’l Forum
Professor’s images/ideas • “murder of European Jewry” • industrial organization of mass murder • a term that denotes the mass murder that took place in World War II • “burnt offering” (from the Greek)
What we didn’t think of: • People:Perpetrators (Hitler, Himmler, Eichmann) Hands-on murderers Individual victims • CultureGerman (and others)Jewish (Western-assimilated; Eastern-shtetl)