History: Burying the Ghosts: one "lucky" woman's story of escape from Nazi Germany
Course details
Course code
Q00017274Course date
Number of classes
1 sessionsTimetable
Branch
Petts Wood and OrpingtonTutor
Guest SpeakerFee range
How you'll learn
Venue
St John's United Reform Church OrpingtonLynwood Grove
Orpington
BR6 0BG
Level of study
Entry Levels 1,2,3: If you have never studied this subject before and you’re not confident in your skills, Entry levels are a good starting point.
Level 1: Covers basic skills and knowledge needed for this subject
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Course overview
Course description
The course will show how it was necessary to alter attitudes amongst children and adults through propaganda and education prior to introducing the anti-semitic legislation that denied the Jewish population their human rights. The talk demonstrates the process of 'othering', with those attitudes even expressed in the UK. PART 1 The rise of fascism in Germany 1933 onwards, focusing on anti-semitic legislation between 1934 to 1938 Jewish denial Paperwork and emigration PART 2 Britain’s attitudes to Jewish immigration Wartime Britain Work for the female Jewish immigrants: domestic service and factory work Enemy Aliens The Black Market/Crime and punishment/The magistrates’ court Rudolf Hess and the psychiatrist By the end of the course attendees will have understood the creeping incremental use of propaganda and education to facilitate legislation that led to the mass destruction of European Jews; the experience of wartime immigrants and the underside of wartime London.
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