History BA (A), The Holocaust and Genocide; Perpetrators, Victims and Bystanders in a Comparative Perspective, 15 credits
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Historia GR (A), Förintelsen och andra folkmord; förövare, offer och åskådare i ett komparativt perspektiv, 15 hp
History BA (A), The Holocaust and Genocide; Perpetrators, Victims and Bystanders in a Comparative Perspective, 15 credits
General data
- Code: HI117G
- Subject/Main field: History
- Cycle: First cycle
- Progression: (A)
- Credits: 15
- Progressive specialization: G1N - First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
- Education area: Humaniora 100%
- Answerable faculty: Faculty of Human Sciences
- Answerable department: Humanities and Social Sciences
- Approved: 2021-11-16
- Date of change: 2022-02-09
- Version valid from: 2022-06-01
Entry requirements
Selection rules and procedures
The selection process is in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance and the local order of admission.
Examination form
2101: The Holocaust, Genocide and Mass Atrocities in the Twentieth Century - an overview, Oral and Written Presentation, 7.5 Credits
Grade scale: Fail (U), Pass (G), or Pass with distinction (VG)
2102: Perpetrators, victims and bystanders -motives, strategies and comparative analysis, Oral and Written Presentation, 7.5 Credits
Grade scale: Fail (U), Pass (G), or Pass with distinction (VG)
Grading system
Fail (U), Pass (G), or Pass with distinction (VG)
Course reading
Required literature
Course unit 1
- Author: Shabas, Wiliam A
- Title: Convention for the prevention and punishment of the crime of Genocide
- Publisher: United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
- Comment: (6 s), Finns på Moodle
- Author: Ó Gráda, Cormac
- Article title: Great Leap into Famine: A Review Essay
- Journal: (2011), 37, s. 191-202 (11 s)
- Year/Volume/nr/pages: Population and Development Review
- Comment: Nås via biblioteket
- Author: Naimark, Norman M
- Title: Stalin´s Genocides
- Edition: 2011
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Comment: 163 sidor, 137 läses. Tillgänglig genom MiunB.
- Author: Long, Leann
- Article title: The Srebrenica massacre
- Journal: 15: 2 (2006), 43-48 (6 s)
- Year/Volume/nr/pages: Forensic Examiner
- URL: Tillgänglig via: https://www.proquest.com/docview/207649572?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true
- Author: Kiernan, Ben
- Title: The Pol Pot regime : race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79
- Edition: 2008
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Comment: 544 sidor, ca 60 sidor läses (intro, förord). Tillgänglig genom MiunB.
- Author: Karlsson, Klas-Göran
- Title: De som är oskyldiga idag kan bli skyldiga imorgon: det armeniska folkmordet och dess efterbörd
- Edition: 2012
- Publisher: Atlantis
- Comment: 338 sidor, varav de första 200 sidor läses i det första delmomentet. Slut på förlaget, men tillstånd att använda den befintliga pdf:en på Moodle finns.
- Author: Herf, Jeffrey
- Title: The Jewish Enemy. Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust
- Edition: 2006
- Publisher: The Belknap Press
- Comment: 390 sidor, 354 sidor läses. Tillgänglig genom MiunB.
- Author: Hedén, Anne
- Article title: Sverige, bilden av Kina och ’det stora språnget’: framsteget som tolkningsram
- Journal: (2013), s. 125-140 (15 s)
- Year/Volume/nr/pages: Historielärarnas förenings årsskrift
- Comment: Finns på Moodle
- Author: Hancock, Ian
- Title: Responses to the Porrajmos (the Romani Holocaust)
- Edition: (1995), s. 39-64 (27 s)
- Publisher: Alan Rosenbaum (ed.) Is the Holocaust Unique?. Boulder: The Westview Press
- Comment: Tillgänglig via: http://radoc.net/radoc.php?doc=art_e_holocaust_responses&lang=de&articles=true
- Author: Fein, Helen
- Title: Genocide, A sociological perspective
- Edition: 1993 (7 s)
- Publisher: Sage Social Science Collection 1993
- Comment: Finns på Moodle
- Author: Dikötter, Frank
- Title: Mao's Great Famine:The History of China's most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
- Edition: 2017
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Comment: 448 sidor, varav cirka 45 sidor läses i urval av läraren.
- Author: Browning, Christopher
- Title: Helt vanliga män: Reservpolisbataljon 101 och den slutliga lösningen i Polen
- Edition: 2019
- Publisher: Norstedts
- Comment: 347 sidor, varav ca 280 sidor läses. Tillgänglig genom nätbokhandlare och även som e-bok.
- Author: Brown, Sara E
- Title: Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda. Women as Rescuers and Perpetrators
- Edition: 2018
- Publisher: Routledge
- Comment: 186 sidor, varav sid 1-58 läses i samband med delkurs 1 och sid 59-164 läses i samband med delkurs 2. Boken finns tillgänglig genom Moodle
Course unit 2
- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Title: Bloodlands. Europe between Hitler and Stalin
- Edition: 2012
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Comment: 560 sidor, varav cirka 50 sidor (förord samt sista kapitlet) läses.
- Author: Rosenbaum, Alan S
- Title: Philosophical Reflections on Genocide and the Claim About the Uniqueness of the Holocaust
- Publisher: Padeia
- URL: Tillgänglig via: https://www.pdcnet.org/collection/fshow?id=wcp20-paideia_1998_0007_0040_0046&pdfname=wcp20-paideia_1998_0007_0000_0041_0047.pdf&file_type=pdf
- Comment: (7 s)
- Author: Overy, Richard
- Article title: "Ordinary Men", Extraordinary Circumstances: Historians, Social Psychology, and the Holocaust
- Journal: 2014:70
- Year/Volume/nr/pages: Journal of Social Issues
- Comment: Sidan 515-530. Artikeln tillhandahålles genom Moodle.
- Author: Naimark, Norman M
- Title: Genocide. A World History
- Edition: 2016
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Comment: 192 sidor
- Author: Laura Palosuo
- Title: Yellow Stars and Trouser Inspections. Jewish Testimonies from Hungary, 1920–1945
- Edition: 2008
- Publisher: Uppsala universitet
- Comment: 271 sidor, varav kapitel 6-10 läses, 125 sidor. Tillgänglig genom open access i Diva
- Author: Kiernan, Ben
- Article title: The Demography of Genocide in Southeast Asia: The Death Tolls in Cambodia, 1975-79, and East Timor, 1975-80
- Journal: 35:4 (2003) s 585-97 (14 s)
- Year/Volume/nr/pages: Critical Asia Studies
- Author: Karcic, Hikmet
- Article title: From the Selimovic Case to the Srebrenica Commission: The Fight to Recognize the Srebrenica Genocide
- Journal: 35:3 (2015); s 370-379 (10 S)
- Year/Volume/nr/pages: Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs
- Author: Gerlach, Christian
- Title: Extremely Violent Societies: Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World
- Edition: 2010
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Comment: 502 sidor, varav kapitel 1-3 och 7-8 läses, cirka 155 sidor.
- Author: Edgren, Henrik (red)
- Title: Looking at the onlookers and bystanders: interdisciplinary approaches to the causes and consequences of passivity
- Edition: 2012
- Publisher: Forum för levande historia
- Comment: 210 sidor, de första 185 sidorna läses.
- Author: Brown, Sara E
- Article title: 'They Forgot Their Role’: Women Perpetrators of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda
- Journal: 2020, nr 3
- Year/Volume/nr/pages: Journal of Perpetrator Research
- Comment: 10 sidor, finns tillgänglig genom Moodle.
- Author: Brown, Sara E
- Title: Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda. Women as Rescuers and Perpetrators
- Edition: 2018
- Publisher: Routledge
- Comment: 186 sidor, varav sid 1-58 läses i samband med delkurs 1 och sid 59-164 läses i samband med delkurs 2. Boken finns tillgänglig genom Moodle