HST 460 SEMINAR: NAZI GERMANY AND THE HOLOCAUST
This senior seminar provides history majors the opportunity to write a senior thesis on important issues and problems central to the rise of Hitler and the Nazi state and/or historical debates that continue to surround the origins, implementation, and aftermath of the Holocaust – the systematic, industrialized mass murder of an estimated six million European Jews, as well as homosexuals, communists, Roma and Sinti, handicapped, and other victims by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during WWII. Students may choose from a variety economic, political, social, cultural, diplomatic, scientific, or intellectual approaches to the study of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in a substantial research paper that advances a significant argument and presents evidence from a variety of sources, both primary and secondary.