HIST 345B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Oread, Peer Pressure, Radicalization
13 Jul 2017
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Understand how anti-semitism and wider racial hatred is learned and incited. Analyze how deep rooted anti-semitism was in europe and understand how it s oread within and across nations. Learn to weigh up and compare di erent kinds of historical evidence. 5 min interview, about why the book has made this reaction: major arguments: that hitler isn"t responsible is everyone else"s actions, you cannot pin it on one man. Holocaust perpetrators are no di erent from any other genocide or mass killing. Not particularly elite oder than regular forces made up of ordinary men ? not the sort to be forced to do anything. Jozefow massacre, june 1942 taking place in the bit of poland were experimentation comes along. Situational reasons: compulsion, culture of obedience not institutionalized not in the army, not used to everything, fear/ pressure peer pressure afraid to go against the crowd, self-interest, not understanding what you"re doing, brutalization.
