HIST 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nuremberg Laws, Heinrich Himmler, Reserve Police Battalion 101
23 Feb 2017
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Final exam take home -get them last class. An event that embedded in ww2, there are senses in which the holocaust is not strictly speaking part of the war in terms of military conflict. It comes from the old testament and it was a great calamity and an inhalation. It refers to a deliberate policy of mass killing. But plenty of non jews also killed and caught up in the holocaust. Some populations were targeted because of their political views, and their sexual orientation. Key concentration camps like auschwitz were responsible for deaths in numbers like 1 million people. When we look at the holocaust and try to understand it, the great scale of killing in the middle of the 20th century. Idea of progress would suggest that 20th century should be more humane an democratic. 20th century governments had access to weapons of mass destruction.
