Prerequisite: Pass in H24D

The scale, brutality and sheer industrial efficiency of the Jewish Holocaust were without precedent in history and it is this 'uniqueness' which renders it such a delicate and controversial topic for historical study. This course ex- amines the centrality of racism to the ideology of Hitler's National Socialist regime, tracing the evolution of anti-semitic policies from 1933, the genesis of the "Final Solution' and its execution from 1941, the responses of the European population to it, and the historiographical debates which it has provoked.