This rotation, we continued exploring the themes of justice and remembrance in the aftermath of genocide.
11/27: This class focused on the Nuremburg trials held after WWII. Some of the topics we discussed included Hannah Arendt’s reporting on Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem and her thoughts on the “banality of evil.” We also talked about other ways of judging genocide, such as the Gacca in Rwanda and the TRC in South Africa, both of which force victims and perpetrators to interact. (The picture is Eichmann on trial)
11/29: We saw a video about a survivor of Dr. Mengele’s twin experiments who chose to forgive him. Check out Gaby’s post below for discussion about forgiveness.
12/3: First we discussed our homework readings and questions. Some ideas that came up: what a doctor should do if their oath to Hitler goes against their Hippocratic Oath, how much blame industrialists who used slave labor should have, and why some of those who worked in or with the Nazi regime were tried in domestic court systems and others were tried in international tribunals.
We then saw the video “A Jew Among Germans,” about Marian Marzynski’s journey back to Germany after surviving in the Warsaw ghettos, examining modern Germans attitudes towards the Holocaust. We’ll be watching more of it next class.
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