SOC 014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reich Main Security Office, Raul Hilberg, Claude Lanzmann

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 014
• Professor: Lutz F Kaelber

Document Summary

Desk murderers: those who organized the holocaust but did not murder anyone personally: nevertheless, they are responsible, entirely removed from the setting where killing took place. Adolf eichmann was austrian who organized the holocaust, specifically the deportation of. Jews and transport to death camps thrum ghettos: captured in argentina, tried in israel and executed, nowhere near the top of the nazi bureaucracy. Hannah arendt, a famous philosopher who wrote about the holocaust and eichmann as well as totalitarianism: coined the term banality of evil : evil done by ordinary people. Said about eichmann along the lines of the four characteristics: (1) ordinary person (2) ordinary modern bureaucrat (3) oversaw extraordinary destruction (4) soulless apparatchik: not ideological or anti-semitic (a) we know this is an incorrect characterization. Raul hilberg, most famous holocaust historian, taught at uvm: why study german railroads: Important part of implementing the movement of jews to death camps.