History 3427E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Christopher Browning, Nuremberg Laws, Hutu Power
10 Dec 2016
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1933: hitler and the nazi party come to power. Adoption of civil service act (7 april 1933) 1935: nuremberg laws announced (legal persecution of jewish population) Gas begins to be used systematically in death camps. Operation reinhard camps are closed (belzec, sobibor, treblinka) 1944: hungarian jews (800 000) are sent to auschwitz. Madjanek liberated by the red army (july) Auschwitz gas chambers are shut down (november) Concentration camp: house prisoners (die as result of mistreatment, malnourishment, exposure, sometimes execution due to offence committed, have a crematorium. Death camps: all build in poland (only 6 created), gas chambers. Difference between holocaust and holocaust which created controversy as it suggested a hierarchy of victims. Holocaust: denote the persecution of other groups such as gypsies and disabled. This still maintains the hierarchy of genocides and victims. Raphael lemkin coined the term genocide" in 1944.
