“…For instance, German control of large numbers of people in Eastern Europe and the identification of the ''enemies'' of the German state combined under the cover of war for the implementation and normalization of mass murder on a scale not previously seen in human history (Bergen, 2009;Lindquist, 2006;Mann, 2005;Petropoulos & Roth, 2005). Therefore, the necessity of the war to the Holocaust must then be reflected in any efforts to teach about the Holocaust, and this factor is largely absent or underemphasized (e.g., students' consideration, narrowed to the period between 1933 and 1945, typically lacks attention to antecedents and legacies) in the few extant interdisciplinary courses on teaching the Holocaust through a psychological lens (Albrecht & Nelson, 2001;Lazar et al, 2009;Solkoff, 2001;Solkoff & Allen, 1978;Woolf, 2001).…”