This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
The School aims to run in-person seminars, subject to circumstances, with some online provision if and where necessary.There will be a reading week in the Michaelmas and the Lent Terms.
Students will be required to write one conventional essay of 2,000 words during LT and one timed mock exam. Students will also be required to prepare short summaries of the readings (bullet points) for the weekly meetings.
Omer Bartov, The Eastern Front, 1941-45: German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare (London, 1985). Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (New York, 1992). Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich at War, 1939-1945 (London, 2008). Saul Friedl?nder, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (London, 2007). Peter Fritzsche, An Iron Wind: Europe under Hitler (New York, 2016). Robert Gildea, Marianne in Chains: In Search of the German Occupation, 1940-1945 (London, 2002). Jan T. Gross, Neighbours: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland? (Princeton, 2001). Christian Hartmann, Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany?s War in the East, 1941-1945 (Oxford, 2013). Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews (London, 1961). Ian Kershaw, Hitler 1937-1945: Nemesis (London, 2001) Ian Kershaw, The End: Hitler?s Germany, 1944-45 (London, 2011). Halik Kochanski, The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War (Cambridge, MA, 2012). Mark Mazower, Inside Hitler?s Greece: The Experience of Occupation.1941-44 (New Haven, 1993). Mark Mazower, Hitler?s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (London, 2008). Catherine Merridale, Ivan?s War: The Red Army at War 1939-45 (London, 2006). Rolf-Dieter M?ller and Gerd R. Uebersch?r, Hitler?s War in the East: A Critical Assessment (Oxford, 1997). Nicholas Stargardt, The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45 (London, 2015). Jozo Tomasevich, War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: Occupation and Collaboration (Stanford, 2001).
Exam (85%, duration: 3 hours) in the summer exam period. Presentation (15%) in the MT and LT.