HIEU 158 Lecture 7: Jan 31 2019
Document Summary
The slow steps toward social exclusion from 1933-1939 made aryanization of property possible. Taking away property of jews (businesses, etc) and giving them to aryans. This doesn"t kill the jews, but it makes like extremely difficult for them. Division of rule between different aspects of the state. Hitler delegated powers to different people (he didn"t do everything himself) How the jewish population reacted to the night of the long knives when the leaders of the sa were murdered. The assumption was that the rowdy factoin which was the most antisemitic force in the nsdap/gov had been eliminated. The elimination of the sa also made the german elite very happy. Saw them as a threat to their power. They were too unruly to be a good substitute for the military. At the time, no one thought that the racial classfication of the population would be a step toward genocide.
