Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: analyze how antisemitism and Nazi racial ideology contributed to the formation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question"; identify the victims and perpetrators of the Holocaust; summarize the major components of the Holocaust, including: isolation of Jews from mainstream society, removal of Jews from society to places such as ghettos, the euthanasia programs, death by mass shootings, death in labor camps and the killing centers, reactions to the persecution and murder of the Jews by non-Jews, and resistance by Jews and non-Jews; argue whether the "Final Solution" was planned prior to the beginning of WWII or evolved over the course of the war in response to the changing circumstances of the conflict; and compare the Holocaust to other instances of genocide (including reactions by the international community) after World War II.