Discuss the T-4 Program and the other aspects of Nazi Eugenics from the early days of the Nazi regime through the concentration camp experimentation on camp inmates. Discuss the theological implications of the Holocaust experience as set forth in Eli Wiesel’s memoir, Night. How did Wiesel react to the horrors of Auschwitz in view of his previous religious education and observance? How did the gypsy (Roma) population suffer during the Nazi terror? What were the prevailing attitudes towards gypsies prior to the Holocaust? And how were the gypsies treated in the concentration camps as opposed to the Jews, for example? How did Nazi sympathizers in occupied countries aid and abet the Germans in the annihilation of their Jewish citizens (ie Rumania, Hungary, Poland and the Ukraine)? The Reading assignment were from following book and the following pages: Crowe, David M., The Holocaust: Roots, History and Aftermath. (PB), Westview Press (2008). Dwork, Deborah and Robert Jan van Pelt: Holocaust: A History. (PB), Norton (2002 Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz. Wiesel, Eli: Night. Bantam Books Week VII.-VIII “Nazi Germany at War” Crowe, pp. 149-190 “The Final Solution” Dwork, pp. 259-84 [The Garden of the Finzi-Contini — Italy] “The Concentration Camp Un Dwork, pp.356-74 Elie Wiesel’s Night “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” Survival in Auschwitz Primo Levi “Liberation and the Search for Justice” Crowe, pp. 383-436. [America and the Holocaust….DVD]
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