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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS COURSE WILL START ON MARCH 2 ONLY! IN CASE YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS COURSE, PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL!
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This course will examine issues of Holocaust revisionism, trivialization and the denying of Shoa. First we will analyze the history of revisionism, its roots and development. In the second part of the course we will discuss the various revisionist authors and their impact and place in historiography of the Holocaust (Bardèche, Rassinier, Barnes, App and Irving). In the third part, we will look closer at contemporary Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary and investigate the place, level and roots of trivializing Holocaust in these post-communist countries. In the last part, we will ask whether the tragedy of Holocaust requires "appropriate" means of representation (eg. can Spiegelman’s comics Maus or Roberto Benigni’s comedy Life is Beautiful be seen as a profanation of the tragedy?)