CAS RN 384 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sodo, Protestantism, Antichrist
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In the end, 10% of polish people were killed by the nazis. This was a different kind of assault be- cause it was limited in character and had political and racial characteristics. Mass murder = important to study what causes the murder and what limits the murder. Limits - desire is not to murder but to also degrade; the same racial ideology that justifies their de- capitation also justifies their slavements. Idea was that poland would be turned into a huge mass producing area of food for germany and the. This was because the population of germany was bigger than its agricultural base. They con- quered bread baskets (like ukraine and poland) to get rid of the food problem. This limited the violence and killing of polish people, because poland had strategical value for the. No desire to kill them for their territory. They have always been a minority in europe.