Hist 33D, L 4: Origins of the Holocaust: History

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Hist 33D, L 4Origins of the Holocaust History

• Approaches, questions
• 1945 film Tradition, not blood
• Announcements (Journals, Q1, field trip)
• History of Germany, 1780s-1914

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Last Time Australian Genocide

• Approach intellectual history (history of
  ideas)
• Question Did genocide occur in Australia?
• Core concepttheodicy an argument that God is
  goodin spite of evil in the world
• Death/murder for the greater good
• ends justifies means
• Prof. Moses argument mass death was intrinsic,
  not incidentalOk, but was it intentional?

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Question of Intent

• Did they (who?) MEAN to do it?
• Ideology of racism (scientific racism)
• German caseWhen did killing ALL Jews become a
  goal?
• Was mass murder predetermined?
• What predisposed Germans to this solution? ?
  their history (long-term)
• Todays question What role did history play in
  the ultimate occurance of the Holocaust?

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History as a cause of the Holocaust

1. Long-term history culture of militarism,
   obedience, bureaucracy, antisemitism(film clip)
2. Middle-term history special path to modernity.
   (conditioning by events)Textbook p. 76 From
   the last two decades of the 19th century, German
   society was in a state of almost permanent
   political and social crisis which persisted right
   up until Hitlers appointment as Chancellor in
   January 1933.

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Film Here is Germany

• US Army Signal Corps, 1945
• To prepare US soldiers for occupation
• BUT never released, not used for soldiers
• Change of US occupation policy(non-fraternizatio
  n to democritization)
• Cold War context not punishing, but winning
  friends

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Announcements

• JOURNALS due Thursday (half the class)(rest of
  class next Tuesday)
• Q1 on Thursday Appeal of Nazi Party
• FIELD TRIP Sunday Oct. 20
• depart 8/815am from UCSB bus loop
• Museum of Tolerance 1040-140
• LA Museum of the Holocaust 215-345
• Drivers get reimbursement for gas

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Review of German history in film

• Fredrick Wilhelm I Soldier-King of Prussia
  (1713-40)
• Fredrick II the Great, 1740-17863 pillars of
  power
• militarists, large landowners, state officials
• 1848 democratic revolution, Fred. Will.
  IVNever must a scrap of paper come between me
  and my people
• Bismarck (1815-1898)
• 3 wars of unification, 1866-1871
• Great questions of the day will not be decided
  by majorities, but by blood and iron

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German History, contd

• Wilhelm I Kaiser of 2nd Reich, 1871-88
• economic boom 4th pillarindustrialists
• Unstable society?? Permanent crisis?
• Fredrick III (1831-1888) Kaiser for 100 days
• Wilhelm II (1859-1941 1888-1918)
• Fired Bismarck 1890
• Deliberate policy of provoking war (WWI)

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Parting reminders

• Q1 appeal of Nazi Party (2 reasons why)
• Film tomorrow evening, Chem 1171History of
  Germany/Hitler, 1914-1945
• Start time?