Hist 33D, L 2: What was the Holocaust?

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Hist 33D, L 2What was the Holocaust?

• Draw a picture of what comes to your mind first,
  second, third.
• Write down some words or phrases

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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?

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Auschwitz on google

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Holocaust on google
Museum in Washington
Liberation of Buchenwald
Auschwitz album
Stockholm Intl Forum
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Professors 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)

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What we didnt think of

• People Perpetrators (Hitler, Himmler,
  Eichmann) Hands-on murderers Individual victims
• CultureGerman (and others)Jewish
  (Western-assimilated Eastern-shtetl)