GERM 45 The Burden of the Nazi Past: World War, Genocide, Population Transfer, and Firebombing (in English)

This course studies the main events of World War II and the different stages of processing the past in the post-1945 period. In an interdisciplinary fashion we take up selective controversies in order to understand the formation of post-war German identity, e.g., the Nuremberg, Frankfurt, and Eichmann trials, the Berlin Jewish Museum and Holocaust Memorial, Neonazism, and current efforts to remember German civilian casualities. Taught in English. By special arrangement, this course can count toward a German Studies major or minor. Open to all classes.

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Dist:LIT; WCult:CI

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