HIST 295 Lecture Notes - Sturmabteilung, Extermination Camp, Michael Phayer
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Not disagreeing about what happened but they have different interpretative points that they are making because they are looking at different data. Browning is using nazi accounts to tell the story. If you look only at certain sources you only get that one perspective of what happened. Wistrich and browning are using different sources for information. Browning doesn"t agree that the holocaust happened because they were brainwashed: being brainwashed is a common answer for why the holocaust occurred. Wistrich says anti-semitism is at the heart of the holocaust but does. This question will lead to more questions if you go deep enough. Which of these, wistrich or browning, are more effective as history. Einsatzgruppen (task forces: mobile killing units, first launched during the invasion of poland and then launched again to a greater extent in the soviet union. Gassing eventually replaces shooting to: protect german soldiers from the psychological strain of killing women and children, cut costs, increase efficiency.