HIST250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Write-Off
20 Dec 2016
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The aspects of the holocaust that make it unprecedented. Used as prisons before, in wwii built them in unprecedented scale and for unprecedented reasons. Camps were considered the new cities of europe. Germans intended for them to be new cities. Streets, special housing, spaces for private gardens, ponds. Meant to last a long time and grow as cities. House any people that were outside of their vision. When survivors arrived from these camps they would write down their experiences, had to put it into words as evidence. One of the motives was that people wouldn"t believe them. Dehumanizing process, it was important to find their uniqueness and what happened to them. We have a culture that widely accepts testimonies. Wanted stories of witnesses there because the stories that they lived through could provide vivid flesh and blood experiences. Rebuilt as re-education camp and enter german society. Rebuilt as re-education camp and enter german society again.
