Online-Module

Introduction: The Holocaust and Fundamental Rights

This E-learning module has been designed to reflect on the Holocaust and Human rights today.

Human dignity in past and presence

This module aims at reflections leading to a positive definition of human dignity on a personal level as well as an understanding of the term that is universally applicable, and the role of dealing with the past for mastering the future.

Paving the way to the Holocaust through fundamental rights violations

In this presentation Wolf Kaiser will explore the role of fundamental rights violations in the process of the establishment of Nazi dictatorship in Germany.

Picturing persecution – photos of the persecution of Jews in Germany (1933–1940)

Analysing just three photo(-series), Christoph Kreutzmüller shows how anti-Jewish practice in Germany radicalised and how the ex- and inclusionary processes accompanying them worked in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1940.

Case study 1: Policing persecution in Germany

The material presented here includes documents concerning the role policemen played in the “fateful year of 1938” in Berlin.

Case study 2: The Reich Ministry for Justice and the Nazi crimes

The case of Franz Schlegelberger is an example of a German perpetrator and highlights the way in which the Nazi regime could rely on the support of the legally trained traditional "elites".

Case study 3: The Dutch peoples registration office

Even though the Low Countries had a long history of religious tolerance, Jews were methodically registered in the Netherlands - with the help of the Dutch officials.

Case study 4: Crimes against humanity – the Doctors' Trial in Nuremberg

On 9 December 1946, an American military tribunal opened a trial against 23 German physicians and administrators for their participation in crimes against humanity.

Case study 5: Politics of memory – the Holocaust and Hungarian public

The material gives historical insights into the complex years of 1940 to 1944, principally to discuss the current memoralisation and prevailing narratives in Hungary and the mixture of facts, myths and legends.

Case study 6: Images of Roma – continuities of discrimination

The aim of the material provided here is to discuss how and why Roma and Sinti were and are continuously excluded from European societies. It suggests using the contrast between self images and public images as a starting point and finally addressing the question how adequate commemoration of the Roma victims of genocide can be ensured.

Case study 7: The Evian Conference in 1938

The aim of the material provided here is to inform about the international conference of Evian in 1938, in view of discussing the current refugee issue and its challenges for governments. The historical experience of the Evian conference sheds a light on the difficulties in finding an adequate and humane response to the refugees’ situation Europe finds itself confronted with.

Case study 8: Politics of Memory in Poland, Italy and Spain

The aim of the material available here is to demonstrate how the specific cases presented combine a mixture of historic facts and historic research, the use of historic events in current political affairs, and the developments of appropriate forms of commemoration in different societies over the last decades.

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