HIS338H5 Lecture Notes - Munich Agreement, Nuremberg, Extermination Camp
Document Summary
Relationship b/w racial campaign and war campaign. Regions where mass murders were committed, in contrast to concentration camps. 1. 1 million jews murdered not in the death camps themselves. Interning of jews in small areas within cities: poland -> all cities had small ghettos which were packed with hundreds and thousands of people. Extermination camps: vast majority of death camps in poland, auschwitz not purely death camp. Hitler wanted to leave independence but found enthusiasm by nazis and there was no resistance in annexation. Germans and austrians -> strong support for hitler and nazi party. Hitler wanting to annex czechoslovakia (sudetenland: puts pressure on prime minister to allow, chamberlin-> munich agreement. Britain, italy and france meet with hitler to decide fate of czech. Get _____ and hitler has to agree to let rest of czech state. Months later 1939, britain bully czech into signing agreement to allow hitler to invade rest of state.
