HIST 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Primo Levi, Gas Chamber, Nazi Propaganda
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Hist 5- lecture #11- the mechanics of genocide ii. Rape and sexual violence: corporate complicity. Corporate is world is complicit in holocaust. Motivation for complicity is greed and benefit. Not the first thing, there was initially aryanization of the economy, there was hesitation at first. As the genocide continues, the economy becomes very dependent on the regime. Degesch is a subsidiary of ig farben that together provide zyklon b for the death camps to be used for gassing. They don"t really make that much money- they can be bought at cheap rate. 1943/1944: 7. 4 million slave laborers, for farms, industry, private household. Germany"s plan includes enslavement and forced labor for no profit, some in occupied areas of eastern europe and some brought back to germany. This did not include jews, slave laborers tended to be slavs. Not that much of a worry if they die as slaves.
