Europe at War, 1939-1945: Occupation, Genocide, Resistance

William Hitchcock, University of Virginia

This course surveys the impact of the Second World War upon the people and nations of Europe. We will deal in particular with the rise of Fascism, appeasement and the outbreak of war, the fall of France, the survival of Britain, the nature of the Nazi genocidal war on the Jews, the German-Soviet war, the European resistance to German occupation, and the liberation of Europe in 1944-45.