HI364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sturmabteilung, Belief, Reichstag Fire Decree
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Hi364 lesson 1: the holocaust: definitions, origins, context. Definition of the term: shoah burnt offering, systematic murder of almost 6,000,000 jews by nazis and their collaborators. United nations: genocide as an international crime, un document on genocide: convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of. No: just one more example of mass killing, trivializes. Incomprehensibility that"s how unique it is, that it stands outside of history. It"s too different and unique that it"s difficult for our minds to understand the brutality of the. It"s ethically and responsibly important to understand these similarities. Holocaust happened because of anti-semitism misses a lot of other explanations and context (not the only aspect of the holocaust) Solution: anti-semitism is important to the holocaust, but is not the only important aspect of the context. I. e. romans destroyed the temple in jerusalem = migrating of jews from judea.
