Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

Professor Jody Russell Manning
Year: 2022
Students: 26 (Graduate and Undergraduate)
Accompanying Faculty: Emily Blanck and Mikkel Dack
Countries Visited: Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria

Beginning in Germany, the course explores the German capital of Berlin, Sachsenhausen concentration camp, the Topography of Terror Museum, and the Wannsee house where high-ranking Nazis planned the implementation of the Final Solution. We then travel to Poland, visiting Warsaw and Krakow, including a full day at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. From there we travel and tour the Czech capital of Prague, with a day at nearby Theresienstadt memorial and Lidice, before returning to Germany to conclude our trip with visits to Nuremberg, site of post-war trials of Nazi leaders, onto Salzburg with the Eagles Nest, and then Munich, from which we visit the first German concentration camp set up at Dachau.