Hist 2c, L 17: Genocide, WW2 & the Holocaust
(Auschwitz and World History)
by Prof. H. Marcuse, May 27, 2003

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Specific question: Why do people commit atrocities, and how do they do it?

"Global" question: What can we learn from studying history?

Comic why we should look back, not forwardShort Answer 1

"Global" question: What can we learn from studying history?

Review of Nietzsche's 3 types of history (from the article in the reader): Monumental, Antiquarian, Critical.

Note that I used Nietzsche's "Uses and Abuses" in the title of my book about post-1945 Dachau.

Short Answer 2

Why should we study history?
Life is complex.
Peanuts: Life is a thousand word essayThere's more to it than "facts."

Why I studied history: Dachau (1956)

Why I studied history: Dachau (1970)

EIeio

Causes of Atrocities

Rudolf Hoess under Allied arrestein 1945-46Rudolf Höss (1900-1947)

Film clip

Erwin Leiser: Mein Kampf (My Struggle), 1961


lecture by H. Marcuse on 5/27/03; outline prepared for web on 5/28/03.
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