JWST 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Zyklon, Chris Browning, Majdanek Concentration Camp

• School: McGill University
• Department: Jewish Studies
• Course: JWST 240
• Professor: Dan Heller

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First full citation- and right under 1 sentence description why you"re using that source and then continue with other ones. Bergen textbook that beginning on 1942- 75% of jews who would be murdered in the holocaust were still alive but by beginning of 1943- only 25% of all those who would be killed in the. How is it that the third reich in these years decided to move from a murderous hatred of jews to a well-crafted concerted effort to annhile each and every single jew- men, women, children, that came under their breathe. We can think about the nazi arrival to the final solution- the decision to get rid of all the jews as a 3 stage process. Even call it a 3 stage learning process- at each step in the way- the nazis learned something new that lead them to their decision to engage in genocide. Germany invades austria- expansion eastward and westward to control europe.