HIST 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ordnungspolizei, Einsatzgruppen, Deconstruction
Document Summary
Wehrmacht: the invasion of the soviet union. Nazi expand limitlessly into soviet union, finding more and more jews. Leaders realize they need a long term strategy for all the undesirables. Course of war, no distinction between soldier and civilian, nazis want complete deconstruction of soviet union and murder of certain groups. Flawed logic in expanding third reich- race and space. Specific job to follow army into the soviet union, like a clean up crew dependent on army but they have their own mission. Lots of different people in the squads. (1) army (2) order police (3) einsatzgruppen. Groups begin murdering jews, sinti and roma, mental patients. Begin to organize destruction of jewish communities with help of non jews. Round up jews in area with info from collaborators, dig pits, humiliation, killed directly into their own grave. Genocide takes place in normal places in public with witnesses. Babi yar is the largest slaughter 30,000. Economic motives: german workers become hitler"s soldiers.
