TERM PAPER TOPICS FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES Please keep in mind that the following list of topics is merely suggestive of the kinds of things you might do for your term paper. I invite you to be creative and select a topic which really interests you. You do not need to feel confined to the list below. If you choose something not on the list, you might want to check it out with me before beginning your research. I might be able to tell you if it a researchable topic, suggest sources, etc. **************************** Racial Requirements for Memebership in the SS Is there a Nazi Personality? The Leuchter Report The Nuremberg Laws and the Jim Crow Laws: Similarities and Differences International Immigration Laws and the Plight of European Jews The T4 Euthanasie Program as a Precursor of the Holocaust Was there an Official Nazi Plan for Extermination? The Zundel Trials Hate Groups in the United States The Resurgence of Ne-nazism in Western Europe The Current Swiss Bank Issue Chiune Sugihara The Jews of Shanghai Children in the Holocaust The Warsaw Uprising Jewish Resitance to Nazi Policies The Role of the Einsatzgruppen The Armenian Genocide Were the Nuremberg Trials Legal? The Significance of Kristallnacht Nazi Policies toward Homosexuals Hitler's Leadership Style and the Evolution of the Holocaust When Did the Allies Know? The Evian Conference Nazi Use of Propaganda Choose a Specific Extermination Camp(Auschwitz, Sobibor, etc) Lessons From History: The Versailles Treaty Lessons From History: Can Technology Save Us? (Compare Holocaust and Hiroshima) Lessons From History: The Current Hague War Crimes Tribunal The Rape of Nanjing Intentionalist/Functionalist Debate Death Camps and the "Rationalization of Death." (e.g. Weber, Ritzer) German Reparations to Israel: Legal Bases Antisemitism During the Middle Ages Antisemitism and the Enlightenment Antisemitism as Racial Theory Antisemitism Today Rescuers and the Righteous Among the Nations The Economics of the Holocaust A Biographical Impact paper on: Hitler Geobbels Himmler Heydrich Hans Frank Goering Eichmann Etc. Women in the Holocaust Women in the Camps Brothels ("Comfort Women") Slavery and the Holocaust The U.S. Role in the Holocaust Motives for Genocide The Nazis and the Mass Media Julius Streicher and Der Steurmer Holocaust denial and Historical Revisionism The Wannsee Conference The Rationalization of Murder Gypsies and the Holocaust Homosexuals and the Holocaust The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Holocaust The Displaced Persons Camps Art and the Holocaust Children's Art from the Holocaust The Uniqueness of the Holocaust The Use of Tattoos at Auschwitz Escapes, Rebellions and Uprisings in the Death Camps (Sobibor, Auschwitz, Treblinka) The Kindertransports The Role of the Vichy Government Life in the Ghettoes The Death Marches (I will add topics as they occur to me)