Nazi Germany The Racial State &Persecut of Minor

(4 Credits)

This course will examine Nazi policies towards the Jewish people and how the “racial state” dealt with others it also deemed “racially unfit” to belong to the German Volk, an invented category. It will look at the heritage of racial thought that came before 1933, especially from the United States, and the ways in which the Nazis sought to create a nation based on “blood and race.”