Guided viewing on The World at War BBC Documentary The Final Solution parts 1 and 2 (available on YouTube approximately

3 hours viewing) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. German anxieties replace chaos with certainty Expel foreigners A visceral enemy needed International conspiracy of Jews. Rosenberg Perversion of Darwinism Admire the German peasant Reasonable anti semitism SA SS Himmler Greatness based on ethnic pride Think better of yourself while worse of someone else 1933 Hitler formed a government Goring interior minister Reichstag destroyed by fire gave him opportunity to crack down Laws against Jewish professionals 50 000 Jews left 500000 left May 10 33 books burnt. Intellect suspect and smacked of Jewishness Goebbels propaganda minister SS cold calculated terror Nuremberg 35 laws ended Jewish legal rights Christianity a sickness in the German nature Replaced by the Teutonic past Himmlers deputy Heydrich Logical for SS to run punishment centre (emblem death head) Dachu a model for all camps 1938 Landau castle (prison) where Hitler did time Jewish question to be solved (spontaneous Kristallnacht) launched by Heydrich 30000 marched off to camps straight after Still big focus on Jewish immigration Eichmann in charge 1000000 Jews wanted to get out. Palestine under British control was a good option but the Arabs who already lived there objected 1939 in Reichstag Hitler said Jewish policy could go further Mercy killing handwritten note from Hitler authorised it Poles were Slavs an inferior breed Poland plans could be effected without popular opinion. First Poles pushed into Central part of Poland to make way for German living Re Germanisation race and resettlement office 3 million Polish Jews moved to reservations in Poland Summer 1940 possible sending Jews to Madagascar (disease ridden island) but didn't happen Registering and issued ID cards for occupied countries No simple scientific formula so used the grandparent test Then moved to the closed ghettos. Eastern front another 5 million Jews SS Einsatsgruppen but shootings denied the Germans of labour Use of Jews as labour approved by Himmler Perks of the job for the mobile killing units Himmler needed a cleaner more impersonal way, mind went back to euthanasia method Outcome Auschwitz biggest industrial town Heoss commandant (father wanted him to be a priest) moved his wife and family there too 3000 SS guards mostly unfit for front 20 full concentration camps 900 smaller labour camps Himmler controlled Argument what comes first killing the Jews or winning the war? Sited on railway routes Heydrichs job to get Jews there. Work sets you free old Dachau motto Himmler visited twice What comes first winning war or killing Jews As big a job as major campaign 6 crematoria concealed Heys task logistical getting everyone to cooperate Jan 42 Berlin. Wannsee Meeting resettled for labour in the east total 11 million Eichmann permanent administrator

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Propaganda needed eg Jews as rats eternal jew 1942 the yellow star Jewish councils administered nazi measurments Little concerted opposition Transit camps run by inmates trains ran like a dream quote Eichmann SS and police rounded them up no strength left for suffering what could be worse than the ghetto Lure of food people scrambled to get out. Even paid their own railway fares! Trucks suffocation no water trains chartered from state railways. Aushwitz busy station commercial freight trains etc Uncoupled in Auschwitz, hooked to another engine and shunted to camp railwaymen could see and hear Jews Prisoners of the baggage squad (another eg of Jewish forced to work on every stage of process) Main objective get to gas chambers asap healthy enough for work or not sick old lame pregnant women and children gassing right away The story of Richard Bock Those selected to work averaged 3 months tattooed numbers on arm then men and women separated Auschwitz 3 main camps and 30 subsid labour camps 100000 slave labourers Himmler boasted that his doctors were unfettered by Christian principles Built armament factories continually expanding camp self supporting to survive needed an indoor job (with a skill) suicide ran at electric barbed wire Auschwitz could not be a secret Anthony Eden British minister for interior 1942 enough evidence Near end of 42 Eden made statement on House of Commons (Auschwitz long range could it have been bombed?) main thing win the war Treblinka uprising Jews own leaders? Propaganda suggested camps were better than where they were (assuage international Red Cross) Resistance required arms. Main Jewish resistance was in Warsaw ghetto (pistols and homemade grenades) Hungary was last pocket march 1944 despite state of war Requests to allies to bomb railways ignored Railway line extended almost to crematoria at Auschwitz to accommodate Hungarian Jews 24 July 1944 Russians liberated Eastern Poland when first camp was discovered (Auschwitz 140 miles away) Germans retreating trying to destroy evidence Russians reached Auschwitz 26 January 1945 April 1945 British reached camps in Western Germany 2800 people found. The rest marched back into Germany Probably 14 million killed as result of a racial theory

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