HIEU 158 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Otto Von Bismarck, Racial Antisemitism, Religious Antisemitism
Document Summary
Theory that the ideas of martin luther influenced hitler and led to the holocaust. Luther believed that all the jews would convert to lutheranism. The study of what determined the roots of the holocaust. Luther would not be a good starting point, but rather otto von bismarck. He orchestrated many of the events that led to wwii and was notoriously anti- Name based off a book about soviet russia. Real mystery about how hitler went from a wwi soldier to a starving artist to the most powerful man in europe (and quite possibly the world) Besides the fact that he somehow gained all this power, the other question is why he decided that a genocide of the jewish people was necessary. 1918 -- national socialist party in germany is a nothing party, hitler isn"t even a senior member. 1928-1933 -- national socialist party shoots up and becomes the number one party ending with the end of the weimar republic.
