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Photographing the Holocaust
The University of Nottingham
  • Start Date: 11 Oct, 2021
  • 3 weeks
  • Study Content: Videos


What insights do photos offer into histories of National Socialism and the Holocaust? Are they authentic sources, or ‘fake news’?

Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
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Course Description

This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.

Learn to decode photos and visit secret archives for a new view of history.


This course, created by academics from Nottingham and the UK’s National Holocaust Centre and Museum, invites you on a visual journey of discovery.


Explore with us how photos can offer new insights into the history of National Socialism and the Holocaust – and what problems we face when relying on the “perpetrator gaze”.


Find out how the historical picture changes if we consider the secret photo archives created by the victims of Nazism. Discuss how seeing history in a new light can change our view of the present, and how to view photos of victims of persecution and violence today.


Explore life in Nazi Germany through personal and propaganda photography


Using the medium of historical photography, you’ll explore what happened to individuals in Germany during Nazism and the rise of Hitler.


You’ll examine how people’s photography engaged with the official Nazi visual culture - including which elements of it they rejected or ignored.


Study German politics and historical photography with insights from the Holocaust Museum


This course is delivered by the University of Nottingham’s lead educator in history, Maiken Umbach, and is run in collaboration with the Holocaust Museum. You’ll have special access to fascinating displays from the Holocaust Museum itself and benefit from the specialist knowledge of museum staff.


By the end of the course, you’ll have an in-depth understanding of the problems of the Nazi’s political propaganda photography and you’ll know all about the humans behind – and in front of – the camera in Germany during WW2.


Course image: Stroop Report Warsaw ghetto uprising, National Archives and Records Administration, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons


Anyone interested in modern European history, National Socialism, the Holocaust, and those who are keen to enhance their media literacy in contemporary contexts.


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The University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is committed to providing a truly international education, inspiring students, producing world-leading research and benefiting the communities around campuses in the UK, China and Malaysia. The purpose of the University is to improve life for individuals and societies worldwide. By bold innovation and excellence in all that it does, the University makes both knowledge and discoveries matter.

The University of Nottingham has 42,000 students at award-winning campuses in the United Kingdom, China and Malaysia. It was ‘one of the first to embrace a truly international approach to higher education’, according to the Sunday Times University Guide 2013. It is also one of the most popular universities among graduate employers, one of the world’s greenest universities, and winner of the Times Higher Education Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable Development’. It is ranked in the UK’s Top 10 and the World’s Top 75 universities by the Shanghai Jiao Tong and the QS World Rankings.

More than 90 per cent of research at The University of Nottingham is of international quality, according to the most recent Research Assessment Exercise. The University aims to be recognised around the world for its signature contributions, especially in global food security, energy & sustainability, and health. It won a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education for its research into global food security.

 

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