HIS338H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Munich Agreement, Adolf Eichmann, Robert Jay Lifton
Document Summary
Racial policy in the east: euthanasia program (crippled, and mentally ill) (1939-1940, ghettoization of jews in occupied poland (1939-1941, operation barbarossa (june 1941, einsatzgruppen killing commandos, wannsee conference and the final solution (jan 1942, gassing operations, extermination. Motivations: some debates about perpetrators: the role of antisemitism: the goldhagen debate, bureacratic distancing: the argument of zygmunt bauman, the case of adolf eichmann: careerism, doubling : the argument of robert lifton. His338 lec 4 jan 24: order followers and the order defense, peer pressure and the spirit of community, the authoritarian personality, obedience to authority: the milgram experiments, sadism. Relationship between war and racial policy and ideology. How essential is the racial ideology to the war campaign. Racial campaign was main point, especially the notion of living space (german term for this) Reading talks about germinization and exploitation of war campaign, see how important germanization is. One of the most important political moves was the invasion of austria 12 march 1938.
