History 4492E: The Second World War and the Nazi Occupation of Europe, 1938-1949

Course Description

This course will focus predominantly on the Nazi occupation of Europe from 1938 to 1945. It will examine the differences between the Nazi occupations of Western and Eastern Europe. Within this framework, we will also discuss issues of resistance and collaboration, the exploitation of prisoners of war and slave labour, and the relationship between occupation policies and the Holocaust. In addition, this course will examine the early phase of the Allied occupation of Germany as we explore how the occupiers became the occupied.

Required Texts

Istvan Deak, Jan T. Gross, and Tony Judt, eds. The Politics of Retribution in Europe.    (Princeton, 2000)

Ulrich Herbert, ed. National Socialist Extermination Policies. (Berghahn, 2000)

Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe. (Penguin, 2009)

Bob Moore, ed. Resistance in Western Europe. (Berghahn, 2000)

John F. Sweets, Choices in Vichy France. (Oxford, 1994)

Evaluation

Book Review:                          10%

Participation                            30%

Paper Critiques                       10%

Proposal & Bibliography          10%

Oral Presentation                    5%

First Draft Paper                      20%

Final Draft Paper                     15%

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