HREQ 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lebensraum, Conspiracy Theory, Final Solution

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

Document Summary

Week 11 lecture- genocide ii: the second world war and the holocaust. 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 was the combination of traditional forms of hatred with modern scientific tools and historical circumstances, the growth of empire and colonialism. This created the common perception that europeans were of a. Different" or superior" race: the development of evolutionary theory. Stages on the path to extermination: ideology: the nazis sought for a way to justify extermination. Extermination was seen as the last step on the way of controlling jewish interference in german national life. Conspiracy theory: the protocols of the elders of zion: ban on intermarriage, ban on citizenship, kristallnacht, final solution.