Germany, 1900-1945:
Student Review Essays Index Page

Essays written for
UCSB Hist 133B and 133D
Prof. Harold Marcuse

page created 3/20/2007, last modified: 10/21/11

This page links to 29+36 book essays written by students in Professor Marcuse's Germany, 1900-1945 and Holocaust in German History lecture courses at UC Santa Barbara in 2007 & 2008 (course homepage).

• For the assignment, see the 2007 133b book essay assignment and web publication guidelines, which were updated for 2008: 133d book essay assignment and web option guidelines.
• In 2007, students provided a list of topics of interest, and I suggested appropriate books. In 2008, I provided a web page of suitable books, but students had the option of finding their own. Just over half the class chose their books from the list provided.
• In 2007, 16 of 34 students opted to meet the earlier deadline and do the additional editing and bibliographic work to have their papers published here. Most of the other papers were so good that I offered a "semi-web option:" Anyone with an A or A- on their paper could submit a corrected version with author blurb and abstract (but not necessarily annotated bibliography), and not do the term identifications on the final exam. 13 students chose to do this, so there are 29 essays from that course
  In 2008, essentially all students qualified for the web option (it was the best set of papers I have received to date). A few students qualified after an intermediate set of revisions, or with a grace period, so ultimately 36/37 essays are included below.
  In 2009, 26 of 48 qualified with a B+ or better, and 11 more qualified after revisions, thus 37/48.
• Finally, see my plagiarism warning, at bottom.

Brian Thompson on
George Victor,
Hitler: Pathology of Evil
(Brassey's, 1998)

*Matt Stegner on
Omer Bartov,
Hitler's Army
(Oxford UP, 1991)

Dan Schneiderman on
Robert Gellately,
Backing Hitler
(Oxford UP, 2002)

*Jessica Kasper on
David Cesarani,
Becoming Eichmann
(Da Capo, 2006)

Corey Teague on
Daniel Goldhagen,
Hitler's Willing Executioners
(Vintage, 1996)

Julie MacMichael on
Nechama Tec,
Defiance: Bielski Partisans
(Oxford UP, 1993))

Joseph Sarafian on
Miklos Nyiszli,
Doctor's Eyewitness Account
(Arcade,1960)

Darcy Alcantara on
Matthew Stibbe,
Women in the Third Reich
(Arnold, 2001)

*Sarah Branstetter on
Peter Sichrovsky.
Born Guilty: Children
(Basic, 1988)

Joseph Kellener on
David Cesarani,
Adolf Eichmann
(DaCapo, 2006)

Tiffany Lasister on
Alexandra Zapruder,
Diaries of the Holocaust
(Yale, 2001)

Anonymous on
Diane Ackermann,
The Zookeeper's Wife
(Norton, 2007)

Barbara Thomas on
Paul Bonart,
But We Said No
(Mark Backman, 2007)

Rachel Peña on
Eugen Kogon,
Theory & Practice of Hell
(F, S & Giroux, 1951/2006)

Lauren Chase on
Lucie Adelsberger,
Doctor in Auschwitz
(Northeastern,1995)

Amber Benavides on
George Berkley,
Hitler's Gift: Theresienstadt
(Branden, 2002)

Matthew Neal on
Edwin Black,
IBM and the Holocaust
(Crown, 2001)

*Erin McGrath on
Janina Struk.
Photographing the Holocaust
(I.B. Tauris, 2004)

Andrew Milman on
Peter Adam,
Art in the Third Reich
(Harry Abrams,1992)

Independent Proseminar
Research Paper:

Aubrey Boag on
Jewish Emigration from Germany, 1933-1941
 

Heather Quinn on
Bradley F. Smith,
Heinrich Himmler
(Stanford, 1971)

Erin Eve on
Eva Fogelman,
Conscience and Courage
(Doubleday, 1994)

Judith Felz on
Götz Aly et al,
Cleansing the Fatherland
(Johns Hopkins,1994)

Loni Russell on
Peter Sichrovsky.
Born Guilty
(Basic, 1988)

Any student tempted to use one of these papers for an assignment in another course or school should be aware of the serious consequences for plagiarism. Here is what I write in my syllabi:

Plagiarism—presenting someone else's work as your own, or deliberately failing to credit or attribute the work of others on whom you draw (including materials found on the web)—is a serious academic offense, punishable by dismissal from the university. It hurts the one who commits it most of all, by cheating them out of an education. I report offenses to the Dean of Students for disciplinary action.

• For more information, see (my Plagiarism page -- under construction 3/07):
  • page on academic dishonesty at UCSB
  • UCSB Office of Instructional Consultation: Promoting Academic Integrity
  • UCSB Student Affairs page on Student Academic Conduct
  • UCSB Office of Judicial Affairs pdf Resource Guides on Academic Misconduct
  • Princeton plagiarism page with 3 commented examples.