HIST 2200Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Jewish Question, Majdanek Concentration Camp, Heinrich Himmler
26 Feb 2016
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World war ii and the politics of mass murder. Russian the country that really destroyed the nazi. American saving the continent once again. There is no one version of the war. Germany started the war, political regime was the nazis. The nazis was a party of the middle class, the elite only joined when the nazis. March 5, 1933 the nazis came into power. Nazis played a great role in violence, most like protestant than catholic. Reichstag parliament building went up in flames, used to pass a number of emergency laws that would last the whole dictatorship, laws affect freedom of speech (violated speech on the phone) Hitler got 40 something of the votes. Enabling law main object was to end democratic election and the right to vote, power went from party to the government. All power was in the hands of the nazis. After eliminating the communists he went after the socialists. Labor front take away individual unions.
