HIST 295 Lecture Notes - Scapegoating, Extreme Poverty, Total Annihilation
Document Summary
Comparison between hitler and the holocaust (discussed in class) and. September 28th, class is cancelled professor dueck"s gone. Hitler and the holocaust introduction and chapter 1. Each paragraph of the introduction is an excerpt from the following chapters in the book. Religious anti-semitism led to a racial anti-semitism. They weren"t killed for their beliefs, they were killed for being jewish racial discrimination, not theological. Difference between ancient, medieval, and modern anti-semitism, but they are connected. Nazis demonized the jews, often through theological language. Unprecedented crime against humanity planned, deliberate, policy of a powerful modern state. Reich was not itself associated to christianity: mission to rid the world of jews. The world was at war over the notion of good and evil. Nazis thought they were bringing about a utopian world thought that they were doing what was best for the world. Hitler though the german reich would last 1000 years.