HIST 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Operation Barbarossa, Mein Kampf, Four Year Plan
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Others concentrate on hitler"s role as the initiator and the one with the intent; speech in 1920, mein kampf (wouldn"t have lost the war if we had put 12000 of those. Jewish traitors under gas), second four year plan memorandum, 30th january 1939 speech in the reichstag threatened annihilation and extermination of the jews if they unleashed another war. There"s no written order for the holocaust; david irving insists that hitler didn"t want it nor did he order it. Hitler played the roll of the godfather; he never gives the order to kill anyone he just wants them taken care of. Mass killing of jews began in poland in 1939; not systematic or continuous; in 1940- 1941 the einsatzgruppen were organised to get rid of jews, jewish sympathisers, etc. There was the intent to kill all jews that could be killed. Hilberg wrote the most comprehensive work on the holocaust; others include nicosia,
