SOCI 265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lebensraum, Existentialism, Nuremberg
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History 265 - war, states and social change. Fascism and nazism difference between the two in that f is far more revolutionary since it seeks to coordinate and control society far more than in spain and italy. Hitler fundamentally organised society = much more revolutionary: also has degree of anti-semitism killer at the highest rate compared to stalin. Antisemitism did want was what many european states pre-1914 had wanted = an empire: for secure sources of supply and markets lebensraum has larger connotations slightly but the experience of. Vienna in ww1 is near-starvation due to the british blockade of the coast. Security is traditional german policy but to a greater degree e. g. oil from romania so that germany can have geopolitical independence. Hitler"s nationalism is a very particular type memo from himmler in the east post-1941 = the empire should be for aryans.