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Die Wehrmacht und der Holocaust. Der deutsche Vernichtungskrieg zwischen Besatzung, Ausbeutung und Völkermord
DozentIn: Prof. Dr. Christoph Raß, M.A.
Veranstaltungstyp: Seminar
Ort: 01/214
Zeiten: Do. 10:00 - 12:00 (wöchentlich)
Beschreibung: This seminar examines the Wehrmacht's role in the National Socialist war of annihilation. Beginning with the ideological preparation for the war against the Soviet Union, we analyze the entanglement of military units in mass crimes, cooperation with SS and Einsatzgruppen, and the systematic murder of Soviet prisoners of war. Central themes include individual and institutional complicity, the normalization of genocidal warfare, and forms of direct and indirect participation in the Holocaust. The seminar explores the agency of individual soldiers and officers, patterns of participation and refusal, and the contested legacy of Wehrmacht crimes in German memory culture. Through intensive source work, students will develop competencies in the critical analysis of perpetrator testimonies and military documents.
The Seminar will be held in English; knowledge of German is required for working with primary sources.
Introductory Reading
- Bartov, Omer: Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich, New York: Oxford University Press, revised edition 1992.
- Browning, Christopher R.: Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, New York: HarperCollins 1992.
- Wette, Wolfram: The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2006.
- Beorn, Waitman Wade: Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2014.
- Kay, Alex J./Rutherford, Jeff/Stahel, David (eds.): Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941: Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization, Rochester: University of Rochester Press 2012.
- Shepherd, Ben: Hitler's Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich, New Haven: Yale University Press 2016.
