JWST 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Majdanek Concentration Camp, Degenerate Art, Extermination Camp

• School: McGill University
• Department: Jewish Studies
• Course: JWST 240
• Professor: Dan Heller

Document Summary

Opening up of the eastern front in june 1941--- by hitler (attacked ussr) See combination of perpetrator forces contributing to violence against jews. During chaos of wehrmacht invasion, local ukrainians natlists kill jews. Einsatzgruppen then carry out 2nd wave of killings. Taken mostly from ghetto there, into forest. Killed by einsatzgruppen and local latvian units. Killing soviet pows and those deemed mentally ill: technological innovation and improvisation. Used to kill jews in death camp gas chambers. Nazi propaganda oft associatated it w jews and black people. Diff occupied states allowed diff levels of autonomy. Most aided in german deportations in some way. Waypoints where jews were confined before being taken to death camps. Cross btwn a ghetto and a concentration camp. Some jews stayed their in transit to death camps. Since it was more of a settlement, used by nazis as propaganda. Intensive labor and harsh conditions bc camp was constantly under construction.