4C/Marcuse,
L16 overlay, 25 May 2000
GENOCIDE: BIG AND LITTLE PERSPECTIVES
Music: Yevgeny Yevtushenko, "Babi Yar" (1962)
How did the Holocaust affect an individual's life?
- Causes of World War II
- "Reversing the Versailles Treaty" (1938 poster)
- International vs. Economic (depression) vs.
"spIn"
- Sept. 1938: appeasement in Munich
- International vs. lEadership vs. pOpular
support
- Aug. 1939: Hitler-Stalin Pact (to divide Poland)
- The "twisted road" to genocide
- Apr. 1933 boycott: early measures unsuccessful
- 1935 Nurembg Laws: gradual "legal" marginalization
- Nov. 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom: violence not OK
- 1940 Blitzkrieg: (F, B, NL, D, N, GB); "Madagascar Pl."
- June 1941: Barbarossa (S.U.; Dec: U.S.)
- Sept.: Babi Yar, near Kiev; Jan. 42: Wannsee Conf.
- Jan. 1943 Battle of Stalingrad: turning point
- Nina Morecki's story (age 18 in 1939)
- 1941-42: Lvov (Poland): ghetto, Janowska camp
- 1942: Dnepropetrovsk (Soviet Union/Ukraine)
- retreat 1943: Zaporozje, Vinnica (Soviet Union):
- 1944: Zmerinka, Romania