Potsdam Sessions

July 5th- Opening Session

July 6th- Discussion: Bauman and Burleigh:

Bauman, Zygmunt. Modernity and the Holocaust. Cornell: Cornell UP, 2000 [1981]. Chapter 1: “Sociology After the Holocaust.”

Burleigh, Michael. The Third Reich: A New History. New York: Hill & Wang, 2000. Chapter 5: “Extinguishing the Ideas of Yesterday: Eugenics and Euthanasia.”

July 20th- Presentation by Swantje Koebsell on disability, pre-natal screening, and the history of forced sterilization

Readings: Proctor, Robert. Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1988. Chapter 4: “The Sterilization Law.”

July 21st- Discussion: Killing Centers

Thursday July 22- Screening of film Liebe Perla by Hannelore Witkokofski & Moritz Terfloth. Discussion with Moritz.

Discussion with Petra Fuchs: Bundesarchiv: Transcript and Synopsis

Readings: Lifton, Robert Jay. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. New York; Basic Books, 2000 [1986]. Chapter 2: “Euthanasia: Direct Medical Killing” and Chapter 4: “Wild Euthanasia: The Doctors Take Over”

Discussion of: McFarland-Icke, Bronwyn Rebekah. Nurses in Nazi Germany: Moral Choice in History. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999. Chapter 8: “War, Mass Murder, and Moral Flight: Psychiatric Nursing, 1939-1945.”