HIST 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hutu, General Idea, Reserve Police Battalion 101
19 Apr 2016
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From today"s perspective there was a 20 year silence on the. Holocaust it was only relatively recently that the genocide has become a central moment in 20th century history. Causes for silence: reluctance of survivors to publicly talk about their experiences, cold war. 60s = first attempt to chart the holocaust, challenge the silence on the topic; generational shift people wondering what their parents" roles were in the war/the genocide. The holocaust took place in a broader campaign of murder against many other groups (gypsies, homosexuals, those w mental and physical abnormalities) Intentionalists: the final solution decided upon by nazis/hitler at an early date, long before it actually took place. Central aim of hitler"s career was to fulfil the events of the holocaust. Hitler"s longstanding anti-semitism dating back to pre- Idea that germany lost wwi because jews and. It was always his aim to kill of europe"s jewish population. 30s, once nazis come to power, anti-jewish policy increases.
