History 2147A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Zyklon, Public Knowledge, Otto Rasch
13 Dec 2015
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So many hands involved in undertaking, there is significant evolution in instruments and techniques of mass murder: evolution began before mass extermination in 1941 and. Jews of various ethnicities and soviet prisoners of war. Gas vans (and compressed cylinders) in serbia. Gas chambers- carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide: permanent method of vans, can kill more people. 150-170,000 victims (relatively small when compared to whole. Close range, personal shootings, no distance between perpetrator and victims: did they fantasize for their whole lives about shooting women and children. Oct 1941: letter written by police officer to his wife, involved in: took part in mass killing, hand was slightly trembling when. Eisatzgruppen, liquidation of jewish ghetto in belarus shooting but you get used to it- became more calm and firing without deviating at infants. Aware that he has infants at home, but needed to kill infants and others before they did the same to them,
