The Holocaust
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- Created on: 26-11-14 19:46
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- The Holocaust
- The final solution
- many final solutions before the final "final" solution
- 50 million people died between 1939 and 1945
- 12% were jews
- In 1939, Hitler's government started the "euthanasia programme"
- By 1941, 70,000 people were deemed unqorthy of life
- Only group that was possibly treated worse than the Jews were Gypsies
- Classed as a biologically, defined race of people
- By 1945 two thirds of all Jews in Europe had been massacred
- Stalin and Mao Zedong killed more people in the name of economic determinism than Hitler killed in the name of racial determinism
- economic determinism- struggle between haves and have nots
- racial determinism - a struggle between races
- Hitler believed the extermination of the Jews was good
- a few years before, in Mein Kampf Hitler says " I believe that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the almighty creator"
- To what extent was Hitler Responsible
- Intentionalists believe that Hitler was an all-powerful dictator whose will turned into action
- Hitler wanted to purify and strengthen the German/ Aryan race
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- Pope Pius Xii said nothing in condemnation of the holocaust despite being well aware of it
- Anti semitism was a European Phenomenon
- Many of Germany's allies and client states in western and central Europe agreed with the idea that the Jews should be deported eastwards
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- The final solution
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