[HIST 295] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (39 pages long!)
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Study guide: hist 295 the holocaust; september 14, 2016. Medieval reasons to hate jews are bogus; they should be feared for racial reasons, not religious reasons: nazis used modern and ancient reasons to hate jews, used religion on religious people, used race on politicians and economists. Night and fog 1955 released at canne film festival: west german government didn"t like it, french government didn"t like it. Accused of being fascists (algeria and vietnam conflicts) Holocaust was universal and particular: intentionalists. Account for inconsistencies: wunksenk conference (1942) First meeting to map out the final solution: some people combine them. Cameras were smuggled in to the camps by the jews to document events secretly. The holocaust used to be a taboo subject these courses are a recent phenomenon, starting in the 70s. Controversial topic to some extent: not because of the right wing fringe denying it, or that the death toll was exaggerated, but, debates between the intentionalists and the functionalists.
