01:510:261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Adolf Eichmann, Heinrich Himmler, Josef Mengele
14 Mar 2018
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Recap: overall as the war (wwii and especially against the soviets) became more intense, the violence against jews escalated intertwined relationship. Some famous members include himmler, hoess, heydrich, etc: organized the mobile killing quads + commanders at death camps, stereotype/myth: all of these men were extraordinarily evil people and the. Josef mengele (cid:498)the angel of death,(cid:499) symbol of the brutality and: (cid:498)the banality of evil:(cid:499) idea that the mediocrity of the s. s. was important carrying out of task without thought of consequences aka cold, efficient, ex. + driven: the s. s. was full of talented, well-educated men + joining the s. s. was an, ^ after 1945 people did not want to see this image careers. Germany + commanded mobile killing squad commanding officer of einsatzgruppen in the soviet union attractive opportunity to young men put careers on fast track: ex. Common since west german law focused on intention and foresight: ^ often, these ordinary people only received very short.
