HSTR 240B Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: History Of The Jews In Germany, Majdanek Concentration Camp, Mass Murder
13 Sep 2016
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Definition of the holocaust = the systematic mass murder of the european jews by the. Germans and their collaborators between 1393 and 1945: lots of problems. Still: the holocaust was unique: every last jew had to die, longer history of anti-semitism. Mass murder in the death camps of poland: 1. Emigration (tried to convince german jew that there is no future for the in. Legal segregation (e. g. 1935 nuremberg laws: 3. As germany conquered different countries after the start of world war ii it gave them the freedom to set up ghettos. Only after 1 september 1936 (poland, the the ussr: 4. 1941 the turn to murder: einsatzgruppen* (ss special task forced: 6. Gas vans used at chelmno for the first time in 1941: 7. Auschwitz-birkenau, chelmno, sobibor, treblinka, belzec, majdanek all built with the sole purpose of exterminating jews (with the expectation of auschwitz) Used zyklon b in gas chambers came out of the showerhead and suffocated victims.
