JS-3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nazi Propaganda, Counterargument, Adobe After Effects

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Jewish Studies
• Course: JS-3100
• Professor: Smith Helmut

Document Summary

[aerial pictures of auschwitz taken by the u. s. air force provoke this question: definite knowledge about the camps by the summer of 1942. In the beginning of the einsatzgruppen killings (summer 1941 around the time of operation. Barbarossa), the british knew about it because they had broken the code. Intercepts--first jew and partisan deaths recorded (as a part of the criminal orders--shoot partisans or suspected partisans on the spot: criminal orders: greenlight for ss to kill anyone they wanted. Late summer 1941--order to start killing, in a fairly systematic way, any jews. September 1941--british codebreakers intercepting messages that made it clear that execution of jews were transpiring on a routine basis. Auschwitz and the allies (and american knowledge: escape in the summer of 1944 (information distributed to the west) In january of 1942, british intelligence already tracking the trains and people being shipped to.