HST 496: Research Seminar/HST 758A: Seminar in Twentieth Century European History"The Third Reich and Genocide in Comparative Perspective"
Professor Eric A. Johnson
Tuesdays, 3:30-6:20
Spring 2008
This course focuses on The Third Reich in broad perspective. The goal is for students to write high quality research papers of 25-40 pages dealing with a specific aspect of the history of dictatorship and genocide whether in Nazi Germany or elsewhere. Of particular interest for this semester are papers based on correspondence between Europeans and Americans during the years of the Third Reich, but other topics can be arranged with the instructor’s approval.
Required Texts:
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Samantha Powers, A Problem from Hell: America in the Age of Genocide
Eric A. Johnson, What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany
Elie Wiesel, Night
Jan Gross, Neighbors
Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich in Power
