a: How did Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess characterize himself? (1pt)
b. Which theory of the origin of the Holocaust does he fit into, and why? (1pt)
c. What did Oskar give Ilse-Margaret Vogel at the end of the war? (1pt)
Discussion of films
Daybreak Berlin by Laura Bialis (26 mins.): "liberation"
of Ilse-Margaret Vogel
cinematography (critique) [overdramtized; survivor’s voice better; new perspective]
relate to Massaquoi: moment of liberation
Fighter by Amir Bar-Lev (91 mins.): 2 Czech survivors
moral decisions people made (cf. Berlin: Russian soldier; Jan’s father, Arnost in CP, Jan shooting bureaucrat; making the film—putting Jan through the paces)
my project on Nina Morecki, will be Hist 199RA, Spring quarter
Concentration camp system: summary of phases
civil war: neutralization of opposition (real and imagined)
race war: enslavement, extermination
race war by other means (during "total war"): extermination through work
chaos: panic and desperation among personnel
Deaths in concentration camps, extermination centers: draw a graph of phases