JS 211gw Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Majdanek Concentration Camp, Aktion T4, Jewish Question
Document Summary
Shortly after this the germans invade poland. Historians have concluded that the operation t4 systematic mass murder of the disabled served as a model for the final solution to the jewish question. First one that originated after the war. Hitler decided on mass murder in the 1920"s and from the 20"s on he worked toward that goal of mass murder with consistency and never let up. The measures taken by hitler in the 1930"s were conscious preparation for mass murder: conscious preparation, the dehumanization of the jews was conscious preparation for mass murder, ghettoization was also a conscious preparation. Reject the idea that the murder of the jews have been long planned. 1941 as the turning point it seemed that jewish policy reached another impasse. Each time the nazis took over another country in europe they got more jews: poland had over 3 million jews. So now the nazis were planning their invasion of he soviet union.
