HST 802 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dachau Concentration Camp, Paul Von Hindenburg, Blackshirts
8 Mar 2016
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Early life: his father was illegitimate child, lower middle class, small level official in the empire, was a disappointment to father, attended catholic school expelled at 15. Karl lueger, mayor of vienna platform of the anti-semitism. Jews at the time were associated with the monarchy, economy in a time of poverty. Belief that they only make culture and any other culture in the world is from germanic roots. Germany makes culture= jews suck it away. Hitler belief was not new, he did not create this perspective but a common view of right wing politics. Hitler was greatly influenced by this way of thinking. All societies and races behave like individual organisms and compete with another = survival of the fittest. Hitler moves to munich in 1913 (right at start of wwi) He greets the wwi with the same excitement. Wins an iron cross (he was injured in gas attack and hears the german defeat at a hospital)
