1. The historian Karl Schleunes has referred to the period of the 1930s as “the twisted road to Auschwitz.” What does he mean by this? Develop an argument for or against this description, using evidence from Nazi ideas before they took power and from their policy on the Jews from 1933 to 1940 (include evidence from the first year of World War II).
2. Dawid Sierakowiak has left us a precious document of life in the Lodz Ghetto. Reconstruct the political and cultural response to the Jews to conditions in the ghetto. Offer some comparison between the Lodz Ghetto and the Warsaw Ghetto, both in terms of conditions and in terms of the Jewish response.
3. In Neighbors, Jan Gross reconstructs an incident in Eastern Poland a few weeks after the Nazi invasion of Russia. How does that incident fit into the larger pattern of what unfolded in the weeks and months after the invasion? How was it different? How does Gross account for the actions of the Polish inhabitants of Jedwabne and is his account persuasive? What are some alternative explanations?
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