LECTURE 07 B Background to the Holocaust
LECTURE 07 C The Holocaust-Survival in Auschwitz
BACKGROUND SURVEY MATERIALS
REQUIRED THEMATIC BACKGROUND MATERIALS
- Holocaust (Films)
- I highly recommend that you watch all 5 parts of the BBC Auschwitz documentary.
- Here are YouTube links working now. Also see on Netflix, Amazon, DVD...
- Also, see one of the first, and perhaps best, Holocaust films: Night and Fog (in original French with English subtitles).
- Another important film on the issue is Claude Lanzmann's Shoah.
- Recommended: Henry Friedlander, The Origins of Nazi Genocide : From Euthanasia to the Final Solution
- Background sources on Existentialism
- 21-Existentialism-Sartre.pdf --Sartre's clearest "definition."
- 22-Existentialism-Camus.pdf -- The Myth of Sisyphus
- 13-Nihilism.pdf - short selections of Nietzsche aphorisms
- 25-Fritzsche on Nietzsche.pdf - solid introduction
- Nietzsche-1a.pdf - extensive selections
- Racial Anti-Semitism
- Bureaucracy/Process of “Jewish Policy”
- Dehumanization of Jews
- Complicity of Victims
- Banality of Evil
- Existentialist Themes
- Limits of Language
- Moral Relativism (“Gray Zone”)
- Existence precedes Essence
- Atomization/Selfishness
- Hopelessness
- Loss of Tradition/Faith
