HI364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Adolf Eichmann, Jean-Paul Sartre, Rubber Factory
Document Summary
Start of 1942: 75% of jews who would be killed are still alive. Start of 1943: 75% of jews who would be killed are dead. European-wide policy of genocide: no longer regionally-contained solution, strategy is definitely meant to take in jews from all of europe. Manpower: gassing takes less manpower, egn takes a lot of human resources; gassing takes less human resources. Treblinka: warsaw jews and others, bureaucracy: 30 germans + 120 ukrainian guards + 800 jewish prisoners forced to work (usually crematorium) = 1 million dead, relatively small number of people for the huge amount of deaths. Lodz: death camp in an old castle, first gassings, lodz city nearby, big polish jewish german population in late 19th century. Distance between killers and victims: created a greater distance between killers and the victims (as opposed to gas vans, some gas chambers could still pump in carbon monoxide.
