Holocaust denial (web) ('midterm') Question 1 ... Holocaus

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Hist 33D, L 5Kristallnacht and the Turn to
Genocide

• Turn in journals (2 piles A-P R-Y) Q1
• Kristallnacht Anatomy of event
• Announcements (Strike Tue Tibet)
• Holocaust denial (web)

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(midterm) Question 1

• Name 2 reasons why National Socialism appealed to
  a specific group in German society.For each
  reason, state (in at most 1 or 2 additional
  sentences) why.(4 points total
  reasonbecause, reasonbecause)

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Some answers to Q1

• p. 76 ended state of almost perm. crisisWhich
  group? (Mittelstand)
• Ended shame of loss in WW1/Versaillesp. 91
  political and psych. consequences
• p. 101 who voted for
• p. 102 who did not vote for

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Last Time Causal role of history

• Question What role did history (historical
  experience) play in the ultimate occurrence of
  the Holocaust?
• Answer
• Long-term (culturemilitarism, antisemitism,
  bureaucracy) highly contingent (it depends)
• Middle-term (path to modernity) some role,
  but you can spin it the other way, too(compare
  textbook pp. 76, 78, 83)
• Short-term (lived experience) professor thinks
  so, but lots of coincidences along the way

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Kristallnacht Anatomy of an Event

• History of anti-Jewish measures since 1933
  (longer-term)
• Specific events during 1938(middle term)
• Events November 6-12(short term)

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Anti-Jewish Measures, 1933-38

• 1933 (March Hitler "elected")April 1
  boycottApril 7 barred from public service
• 1935 "Nuremberg Laws" at Party rally
• Defined who was a Jew
• 1936 no welfare for "Mischlinge" vets
• 1938
• July 6, 25 barred from business, medicine
• August adopt names "Israel" and "Sarah"
• Sept. 27 barred from practicing law

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Specific events during 1938

• March Austria Polish re-immigration ruling
• Sept. Munich conference (appeasement)Germany
  gets Sudetenland
• Oct. "Aktionen" in Vienna (7th-16th, 21st, 25th)

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Announcements

• Roll call
• STRIKE no regular class next Tuesday
• In IV, park on Pardall Rd.
• Or during Wed. lab time (Milgram film?)
• Rest of JOURNALS due Wednesday (Tue)
• FIELD TRIP Sunday Oct. 20, 8am
• See web site for information
• Free Tibet announcement (by Leron)
• Meetings every Tuesday, 8pm, UCEN Harbor rm.

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Events November 7-12

• Nov. 7 930am Grynszpan shoots diplomat in
  Parisevening violence in Kassel and Hannover
• Nov. 8 sporadic violence in Germany
• Nov. 97pm commemorative dinner in Munich9pm
  news of diplomat's death to Hitler10pm Hitler
  leaves, Goebbels speaks11pm-midnight SA leaders
  make phone callsmidnight Himmler swears in SS
  recruits

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Events, cont'd

• Nov 10
• 1230am Graz (Austria) synagogue blown up
• 120amHeydrich (SS) protect neighboring
  property
• 2-4am first synagogue fires in Germany proper
• 915am-130pm destruction of syn. in Vienna
• 7pm-10pm first 3 major synagogue fires in
  Hamburg
• Most destruction happened on this day
• Nov. 11 second wave of destruction
  arrests30,000 men and boys arrestedmost
  released within 3 months, to emigrate

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Events, cont'd 2

• Nov. 12 Goering presides over cabinet meeting
• 4 goals1. Complete process of "Aryanization"2.
  Accelerate emigration3. Complete isolation of
  Jews from populace4. Abolish Jewish
  self-organization

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Holocaust Denial (revisionism)

• Jsourcehttp//www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust
  /kristallnacht.html
• Yad Vashemhttp//www.yad-vashem.org.il/about_holo
  caust/month_in_holocaust/
• Institute for Historical Review
  essayhttp//www.ihr.org/jhr/v06/v06p183_Weckert.
  html

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Parting reminders

• Next Tuesdays class probably NOT here(unless
  strike is called off) Class either in IV, or
  Wed. evening
• Check course web site for updates