A History of the Holocaust

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A History of the Holocaust is hosted by Dr. Eric Paul Totten, Instructor of History at the University of Arkansas and co-founder of the Northwest Arkansas Holocaust Awareness Project. It is grounded in the scholarship of historians of the Shoah, including Norman Goda, Christopher Browning, Ian Kershaw, and Deborah Dwork. This podcast surveys the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies and collaborators between 1933 and 1945. It is organized around the perspectives of perpetrators, victims, bystanders, and rescuers. Episodes trace the deep roots of antisemitism, the Jewish experience in pre-war Europe, the rise of the Nazi Party, the gradual radicalization of the "Final Solution," and the Holocaust's place within the broader history of the Second World War, It also the Shoah's lasting reckoning in art, literature, and memory. As the title signals, this is a history, not the history, as no single account can fully con