HI109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Morgenthau Plan, Bitter Victory, Judenfrei
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Week 10: nazi holocaust, and a biter victory. Up to 300,000 are killed; mostly slavs. Strong iniial success in the west which leads to a divided france. Nazis bring their race ideology to france. Hitler seeks to integrate all of europe into a grossraumwirthschat; but sought levensraum in the east. Hitler has a low view of russians, poles (all slavs), jews, and communists. Plans to incorporate poland especially into a greater germany. The problem for hitler: this new land is all illed with poles and jews. Seeks to make germany judenrein (jarausch, 352): hitler sought the forcible removal of jews and most slavs fro occupied areas by. Means of murder, torture, arbitrary arrest and detenion, extra-judicial execuions, rape and sexual assaults ; remainder to be conined to ghetos. Master plan east of 1940 called for removal by whatever means of up to 45 million poles, Russians and jews from the newly acquired lands (once captured)
