The Process of Genocide
Read for discussion in class: Bergen, War & Genocide, chapter
7; and
• Gitta Sereny, Into That Darkness, parts II-III
I. The Concentration Camp Universe
A. Phases in the Development of the Camp System
B. Diversity of the Camp System
C. Labor versus Genocide: Contradictions of the Camp System
Map: 'Wild' Concentration Camps (1933-1934)
Map: Major Concentration Camps and Satellite Camps (1939-1945)
Chart: The Changing Composition of the Emsland Camps (1933-1945)
II. Discussion: Sereny, Into That Darkness, parts II-III
III. The Process of Genocide
A. Industrial Idiom: Mass-Produced Death
B. The “Operation T-4” Model
C. “Operation Reinhard”
D. Technologies of Genocide
Chart: Holocaust Victims by Country
of Origin
Graph: Places of
Death in the Holocaust
Chart: Camps and Vicitms
Ghettos and Extermination Camps in Poland, 1941-1944
Map: Nazi Camps and Sites of Execution
Map: The Buchenwald Concentration Camp (1945)
Map:
The Stutthof Concentration Camp (1945)
Map: The Mauthausen Concentration Camp (1945)
Map: The Ravensbrück Concentration Camp (1945)
Image: Theodor Eicke, Inspector of Concentration Camps
Image: Oswald Pohl, Head of the "Economic and Administrative Main Office" (Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungs-Hauptamt, or WVHA)
Chart: Floorplan of Hartheim Castle (Operation T4)
Chart: Floorplan of the Chelmno "Castle"
Map: Chelmno, 1941
Aerial Photo: Chelmno, 1941
Photo: Chelmno Gas Van, 1945
Photo: "Saurer" Van
Chart: Flow Chart for "Operation T4"
Chart: Flow Chart for "Operation Reinhard," Auschwitz, and Majdanek
Map: Belzec, December 1942
Map: Sobibor, June 1943
Aerial Photo: Sobibor, ca. 1942
Map: Treblinka, ca. August 1943
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Map: Auschwitz-Birkenau, August 1944
Aerial Photo: Auschwitz-Birkenau, 13 September 1944
Aerial Photo: "Krematorium II" and "Krematorium III," 25 August 1944
Photo: "Selektion" in Birkenau, ca. June 1944
Photo: "Selektion" in Birkenau, ca. June 1944
Photo: "Selektion" in Birkenau, ca. June 1944
