RELIGION 1529 - The Holocaust and the Churches, 1933-45

Institution:

Harvard University

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Description:

This course will be an historical study of the systematic, bureaucratic annihilation of European Jewry by the Nazi regime during the Second World War. It will also be an historical study of what the Protestant and Catholic churches and individual Christians did and did not do--how they stood by, collaborated with or resisted the Nazis during the emigration, expropriation, persecution, ghettoization, deportation and annihilation of their Jewish neighbors. It will close with a brief study of some of the philosophical and religious implications of the Holocaust.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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