History 1404E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Civil Death, Gleichschaltung, Ethnic Nationalism
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Case study: nazi totalitarian state developmental dictatorship and legal revolution. Gleichschaltung: mixture of legalism and arbitrary violence slowly eliminate political opponent. Kristallnacht, november 1938 violence act against jews. The nazi conscience (moral code, moral compass): building the society for better germany: social integration: promoting the health and the unity of the volk, i. e. ethnic. Spring, 1983: brown-shirts stand in front of jew"s businesses to sabotage their business in attempt to isolate them from society. The civil death" stripping away their civil rights of jews before the holocaust. Legalizing racism; nuremberg decrees, 1935 take away citizenship of jews. Make it illegal for jews and non-jews interracial.