History 1265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Sturmabteilung, Daniel Goldhagen, Jewish Question
28 Sep 2016
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Numbers and names: world war ii claimed 50 million lives, 17-18 million were civilians. German had their own euphemisms for it. Holocaust is the term that has stuck. Holocaust seems to have a mystification about it and blackbourn does not. The destruction of the european jews raul hilberg: other writers critical of the jewish councils, said they should have done more, motif of sheep to the slaughter, a biblical motif, ghettos. There are many particular instances of people who behaved heroically. Swedes saved countless jewish lives despite sweden"s neutrality. Catholic church did nothing, but individual catholic priests did a lot to save. In italy, there was a kind of underground railroad (even fascist officials and priests participated) Sometimes they would get to sweden but sweden would turn them away. Information was starting to come out about the murder of jews almost from the beginning when it came systematic in 1942.
