Nazi death camps

Nazi death camps

Describe the emergence of Nazi death camps. Make sure to include a discussion of their origins in German policies from 1939, and explain the relevant central and regional aspects.

Sources to be used:

Mazower, Mark, Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (London: Allen Lane, 2008),

chapter 4, pp. 78-101

Browning, Christopher R., The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish

Policy, September 1939 “ March 1942 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004), chapter 4,

pp. 111-168

Dan Michman, The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos during the Holocaust (New York:

Cambridge University Press, 2011), chapter 7, pp. 61-89