Course Description
No understanding of the 20th century is complete without an awareness of the staggering crimes against humanity that Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin committed in the name of Nazism and communism respectively. This course examines the social, political and economic conditions that produced these uniquely evil men and how, once they attained absolute power, their murderous policies resulted in the deaths of untold millions - in war, in the slave labour camps of the Soviet Gulag and in the Nazi death camps in German-occupied Poland whose primary aim was to liquidate European Jewry. Hitler and Stalin: Architects of Evil raises fundamental questions about the nature of evil, the malevolent uses of propaganda and political terror, the ultimate crime of genocide, and the troubling question of assigning blame and bringing the guilty to justice.
