HREQ 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Lebensraum, Social Darwinism, The Roots

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 2010
• Professor: Paul Brienza

Document Summary

Genocide: the second world war and the holocaust: traditional anti-jewish semitism in europe was largely based on religious difference. As a result, jews, in some cases, were able to play this role: the inquisition and the attack on heresy , the general problem with otherness or difference. Racial science and ideology: what made modern anti-semitism and racism the combination of traditional forms of hatred with modern scientific tools and historical circumstances, the growth of empire and colonialism. Europeans were of a different" or superior" race: the development of evolutionary theory. Social darwinism: the creation of the nation state". In the modern era, a state is formed as a combination of a linguistic-cultural group with a political-legal entity: citizenship brings with it both privileges and duties as well as forming a basis for exclusion, modern genetics. Extermination was seen as the last step on the way of controlling jewish interference in german national life.