HIS 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Joseph Goebbels, Irredeemable, Antisemitism
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Joseph goebbels: hitler"s closest associates high influence (kept diary) Legitimate and progressive ideal eugenics (around before the nazis) California and scandinavia had sterilization laws: human community can be improved/cleansed by purging/removing unhealthy elements (around before the nazis, dehumanization bacteria, virtue of inflicting violence and terror on irredeemable enemies . Explosive mixture brought to lethal culmination---resentment and disillusionment. The germans tried to reorganize eastern europe according by race (poles labor . Counted on a victory over the soviet union to solve all their problems now have resources/land a place to dump jews but lost. Soviet union war: war against soviet union put outright elimination on the table. Soviet union has lots of jews stopping german victory. Einsatzgruppen-- deployment groups units of the nazi security forces composed of members of the ss and police that acted as mobile killing units task to shoot jews. If they won, jews would"ve been shipped to siberia where democracy would"ve done their work.
