HIST 345B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Adolf Eichmann, Totalitarianism, Six-Day War
13 Jul 2017
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1/2 marks for accurate use of factual knowledge. Nuremberg innovated many ideas in international law principles, genocide convention, dealing with human rights. Early post-war decades, political context in which germans think about past. When the allies were in power in germany pre-cursor to the nuremberg trials, re-education that was taken place. Denazi cation hurtful to acknowledge that our own government had killed millions of jews. West germany now having di erent parties compete for political power, voicing their own agenda rather than remembering the past very well. As west germany becomes democratic, doesn"t foster a good environment for remembrance. trying to re-assemble west germany as an ally of the. War framing of holocaust history blaming it on totalitarian regimes rather than individual agency. Neonazi-ism, counter-memory poems to recite in parliament, rituals death fuge written by romanian poet, parents perished in death camps. celebration of jewish heritage in education. rich culture which was lost in nazi action.
