History 2147A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hunger Plan, Jewish Question, Heinrich Himmler
1 Dec 2015
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Preparations for reckoning with ussr (as early as 1940) British empire over longer term they could do to stand in way of further german movements. Clear that this strategic decision was a mistake, Britain served as base for building off resources for allies to invade north-west europe later in the war. Hitler didn"t account for that after germany went to war with soviet union, britain became an ally to s. u. (gave supplies/ support to them) 1940/41: german forces drawn into intervene in italian campaigns in libya, greece, yugoslavia: hitler placed priority on alliance with italy, supporters did, these distractions diluted germany"s ability to concentrate not resources on primary focus (soviet campaign) Accelerated series of movements toward final solution of: perpetrators of holocaust referred to it as final/ total. Solution of all jews who fell under nazi control. Late 1941/ early 1942: priority in germans preparing defenses against western europe. Germany has been able to import agricultural resources from.
