Ethnic cleansing during the second world. War the nazi attack on the jews

Naimark on the Holocaust

'The Holocaust has become the dominant historical methaphor

The Pianist (2002)

Lecture rundown

1) Ethnic Cleansing in the Second World War, numbers
2) The

Lecture rundown

d) Path four: From the Police to the Einsatzgruppen
e) Conclusions
4)

1) Ethnic cleansing in the Second World War: Numbers and Figures

1)

The Warthegau

2) The Nazi attack on the Jews

1) Intent can almost certainly

2) The Nazi attack on the Jews- a) Nazi Ideology

i) Ethnic

b) Eugenics

i) Influence of late 19th century scientific racism
ii) Moves to

c) The 'destruction' of the Jews and emigration

i) Nazi eliminationist language

Map of Germany March 1939

d) The war and its effects on the Jews - 1939-41

i)

Ribbentrop-Molotov Poland (1939-41)

Ghettos: Nazi occupied Poland 1939-41

e) Operation Barbarossa and the Final Solution 1941-3

i) Possible invasion of

Einsatzgruppen 1941-2

Map of death camps in Poland

f) Comparison with the Armenian Genocide

i) Similarities:
a) State-planned murders
b) Attempts to

3) The Nazi attack on the Jews: Genocidal careers

i) Two important

Banality of Evil
'Eichmann's evil was neither unthinking or banal, but innovative,

a) Path one – Desk killers

i) Mann – Desk killers know

Banality of Evil – Industrial leaders

'Among German capitalists we come closest

b) Path two: The Main camps

i) Killers here mostly moderate rank,

c) Path three: From T-4 to the Death camps

i) Link between

d) Path four – Police to Einsatzgruppen

i) 6,000 core units, 15,000

Ordinary men?

Ordinary Men?

'Browning believes these ordinary men murdered, primarily because they were

e) Conclusions

Mann says this was not really a bureaucratic genocide:
'There were

4) Ethnic 'reordering' in the Warthegau

i) Nazi plans to ethnically 're-order'

The Warthegau

Arthur Greiser – Warthegau policies
'To reverse the process, Greiser spearheaded one