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Syllabus

Syllabus:

-          19th February: Introduction, formalities, definitions, program  

-          26th February: Genocide before the 20th century?  

-          4th March: The Young Turks and Armenia 1915/16  

-          11th March: Ethnic cleansing after World War I, the treaty of Lausanne  

-          18th March: Global Eugenics and the Nazi Euthanasia program (Z 4);  

-          25th March, no class because of an excursion  

-          1st April: Shoah I, the twisted road to Auschwitz  

-          8th April: Shoah II, National- Socialist genocides  

-          15th April: Communist genocides? Stalinism and the holodomor  

-          22nd April: The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia  

-          29th April: Ruanda 1994  

-          6th May: Yugoslavia in the 1990s  

-          13th May: Genocide on trial, remembering genocide

Annotation

Type of the course: Lecture with student’s presentations

The term “genocide” was coined in 1944 by the Polish-Jewish lawyer Raffael Lemkin. Lemkin also was the driving force behind the creation of the genocide-convention of the UNO in 1948. This course deals with selected problems of definitions and presents several examples for genocides and cases of ethnic cleansing in the 20th century.