CAS RN 384 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mass Murder, 18 Months, Lend-Lease

• School: Boston University
• Department: Religion
• Course: CAS RN 384
• Professor: Steven Katz

Document Summary

War in russia is a racial war, b/w arians and slavs and jews. Einsatzgruppe was a part of the invasion of the soviet union and poland. Soviet union is seen as a puppet of the jewish power. The war, in the eyes of hitler, is against the jews. Hitler always puts together the words bolshevik jewish . This was still engrained in hitler"s mind ever since wwi. Creates 4 special groups who didn"t fight light social and were not constrained by the international rules of war (not to inflict harm on civilians, not to destroy cities and towns). But this was the intention of each einstazgruppe. The weimar tried to distance themselves from the einstazgruppes because they fought immorally. Hitler gave a special order exonerating the einstazgruppe from any kind of criminal prosecution, Hitler himself took the responsibility for total destruction, no mercy had to be shown to the carries of the.