JWST 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Home Army, Aryan Race

• School: McGill University
• Department: Jewish Studies
• Course: JWST 240
• Professor: Dan Heller

Document Summary

Pages 129-145: for germany, poland was the gateway to the east, where hitler intended to find. Lebensraum-living space- for his superior (cid:862)arya(cid:374) ra(cid:272)e(cid:863: two years before the first killing centers were established for jews, german occupiers of. Poland tried out various solutions to what they considered their population problems (cid:894)(cid:862)jewish pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)(cid:895) Poland: the hitler-stalin pact of august 1939 assured the germans of nonaggression from the. Soviet union: the german and soviets killed 60 thousand poles in the 1939 attacks and one million. They seized polish businesses and imposed them to follow curfews: made jews and poles line up against fences or in the street to shoot them. They also took them to forests to be killed: nazi racial policy had two sides: attack on people deemed undesirable and advancement of those considered aryan, officials introduced a whole range of measures intended to differentiate poles and.