HIS4319 - Autumn 2018

Syllabus/achievement requirements

B?ker:

Donald Bloxham, The Final Solution. A Genocide, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.

Primo Levi, If This Is a Man / The Truce, London: Abacus, 1991, 15-182.

Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus, London: Penguin, 2003

Kompendium:

Raphael Lemkin, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation. Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress, Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1944, ix-xv and 79-95.

Ann Curthoys and John Docker, “Defining Genocide”, in Dan Stone (ed.), The Historiography of Genocide, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008, 9-41.

Sybille Steinbacher, “The Concentration and Extermination Camps of the Nazi Regime”, in: Jonathan C. Friedman (ed.), The Routledge History of the Holocaust, London and New York: Routledge, 2011, 181-190.

David Cesarani, The Final Solution. The Fate of the Jews 1933–1949, London: Macmillan, 2016, 451-580.
Wolfgang Sofsky, The Order of Terror, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997, 259-275.

Christian Gerlach, The Extermination of the European Jews, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2016, 215-260.

Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men, Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, New York: Harper, 1998, 159-90.

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners. Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, New York: Vintage (or London: Abacus), 1997, 416-55.

Timothy Mason, “Intention and explanation. A current controversy about the interpretation of National Socialism”, in: Timothy Mason, Nazism, Fascism, and the Working Class, ed. Jane Caplan, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995, 212-230.

Donald Bloxham and Devin O. Pendas, “Punishment as Prevention? The Politics of Prosecuting Génocidaires”, in: Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses, The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010, 617-637.

Lawrence Douglas, The Right Wrong Man. John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2016, 1-16, 216-246.

Christian Delage, Caught on Camera. Film in the Courtroom from the Nuremberg Trials to the Trials of the Khmer Rouge, Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvannia Press, 2014, 222-240.

Hilmar Kaiser, “Genocide at the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire”, in: Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses, The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010, 365-385.

Jürgen Zimmerer. “The First Genocide of the Twentieth Century: The German War of Destruction in Southwest Africa (1904-1908) and the Global History of Genocide”, in: Doris L. Bergen (ed.), Lessons and Legacies VIII. From Generation to Generation, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2008, 34-64.

Jonas Kreienbaum, “Deadly Learning? Concentration Camps and Zones in Colonial Wars around 1900”, in: Volker Barth and Roland Cvetkovski (eds.), Imperial Co-Operation and Transfer, 1870-1930. Empires and Encounters, London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2015, 219-235.

Dominik Schaller, “From Conquest to Genocide. Colonial Rule in German Southwest Africa and German East Africa”, in: A. Dirk Moses (ed.), Empire, Colony, Genocide. Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, New York: Berghahn, 2008, 296-324.

Christian Gerlach, Extremely Violent Societies. Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010, 266-289.

Zygmunt Baumann, Modernity and the Holocaust, London: Polity, 1989, 1-31.

Samantha Power, A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, New York: Basic Books, 2002, xi-xxi, 391-442, 503-516.

Felix Wemheuer, Famine politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014,

Artikler tilgjengelige p? nettet:

Cross/Examinations of Dieter Wisliceny and Rudolf H??, in: Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg 14 Nov. 1945–1. Oct. 1946, Nuremberg: no publ., 1947-9, vol. IV, 355-373, and vol. XI, 396-422 (pdfs can be downloaded at https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_major-war-criminals.html)

Alex J. Kay, “Germany’s Staatssekret?re, Mass Starvation and the Meeting of 2 May 1941”, Journal of Contemporary History 41 (2006), 685–700.

Klaus Jochen Arnold and Gert C. Lübbers, “The Meeting of the Staatssekret?re on 2 May 1941 and the Wehrmacht. A Document up for Discussion”, Journal of Contemporary History 42 (2007), no. 4, 613-62.

Alex J. Kay, “Revisiting the Meeting of the Staatssekret?re on 2 May 1941: A Response to Klaus Jochen Arnold and Gert C. Lübbers”, Journal of Contemporary History 43 (2008), 93–104.

Bessel, Richard, “Functionalists vs. Intentionalists: The Debate Twenty Years on or Whatever Happened to Functionalism and Intentionalism?”, German Studies Review 26, no. 1 (2003), 15–20.

Ana Filipa Vrdoljak, “Human Rights and Genocide: The Work of Lauterpacht and Lemkin in Modern International Law”, European Journal of International Law 20 (2009), no. 4, 1163-1194.

Margaret Lavinia Anderson, “‘Down in Turkey, far away’”. Human Rights, the Armenian Massacres, and Orientalism inWilhelmine Germany”, Journal of Modern History 79, no. 1 (2007), 80-111.

Michelle Tusan, “Crimes against Humanity”: Human Rights, the British Empire, and the Origins of the Response to the Armenian Genocide”, American Historical Review 119 (2014), 47–77.

Stefan Kühl, “Ordinary Organizations. Simulated Brutality Reinterpreted from an Organizational Sociology Perspective”, Working Paper 5/2009.

Lawrence Douglas, “Film as Witness. Screening Nazi Concentration Camps Before the Nuremberg Tribunal, in: Lawrence Douglas, The Memory of Judgment. Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust, New Haven: Yale UP, 2001, 11-37.

Donald Bloxham, “The Armenian Genocide of 1915-1916. Cumulative Radicalization and the Development of a Destruction Policy”, Past & Present 181 (2003), 141-191.

Robert Gerwarth and Stephan Malinowski, “Hannah Arendt’s Ghosts: Reflections on the Disputable Path from Windhoek to Auschwitz”, Central European History 42 (2009), no. 2, 279-300.

Yaroslav Bilinsky, “Was the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 Genocide?”, Journal of Genocide Research 1 (1999), no. 2, 147-156.