LECTURE 20: LEGACIES OF THE HOLOCAUST

note: this is not the handout from lecture, but one that reflects what actually happened!
(I decided to focus on the study guide instead after I had copied the handout.)

1. Announcements
   • course evaluations
   • Alfons Heck visit in Winter or Spring quarter?
   • Q5 later on
2. Study Guide
   • Brief review of IDs; how to do an ID question
   • Review of source interpretation, and source used for Q4
   • You will be given a choice of one of 2 of these questions on the actual exam
   • The purpose of the essay question is primarily to see how you think and argue using evidence, and only secondarily to see what you know.
   • there aren't right or wrong answers (although there are incorrect ones),
     just more and less convincing arguments based on better or worse evidence
   • How to draw up an outline for the essay question(s)
     • you should have a thesis statement
     • the "hints" at the end of each question will make the difference between "B" and "A" grades
     • the same set of examples/cases can be used (with different emphases) for each of the essay questions. Thus: focus your study efforts on drawing up a repertoire of cases, and thinking about how each one would fit into an argument for each question.
3. Q5
4. Legacies of the Holocaust: four different groups
   • victims (see reader #1 and #28)
     • a haunting, never-ending burden
   • perpetrators (Nuremberg trials-see Heck, first chapters; denazification)
     • depends on the context, what society does (or does not do)
   • bystanders (see reader #29)
     • with an event of this magnitude, even the uninvolved (daughter and father) are affected
   • later generations=us (see reader #30 and #2)
     • "business as usual," vs. engagement for "never again"