This course provides an introduction to Jewish history and surveys the historical background and multi-dimensional developments of the Nazi extermination of the European Jews, including the different histories and experiences of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders in Europe and the Americas. Topics include the history of anti-judaism and anti-semitism from medieval times to modern times, fascist and Nazi racial ideology, social, political, cultural, and intellectual developments in Germany and Europe as well as historical interpretations of the history and memory of the Holocaust.