HIS 102 1st Edition Lecture 37 Outline of Last Lecture I. War begins (Sept. 1939-April 1940)II. The Anglo-American Front (May 1940-May 1945)III. The Soviet Front (June 1941-May 1945)IV. Who really was responsible for victoryOutline of Current Lecture I. Operation BarbarossaA. June 22, 1941B. Single largest organized assault on a front1. 17,000 trains2. 148 divisions3. 3.2 million soldiers4. “The world would hold its breath” –Hitler5. Stalin was shockedC. Two objectives1. To seize territory, recreate empire on a massive scalei. Operation named after a Holy Roman Emperorii. Vast empire for German colonizationiii. Last effort of a land grab in European colonialism2. Ideological crusadei. Total annihilation of Judeal Bolshevismii. By end of 1941, had captured 3.35 million prisoners of war and only 1.1 million were still alive iii. 1.6 million starved to death, and then the next few months another 600,000 starved to deathD. General Plan East1. One day before Barbarossa, Heinreich Himmler had his people start making a plan for the demographics of the territory they were about to take2. Drawn up by a professor3. July 19424. Planned to move 80-85% of the Polish population, 64% of the Ukrainians, 75% of Byelorussian’s (all driven East)5. Physical annihilation of all these people, taken as a given that the Jews would be gone by this pointII. Browning, “Ordinary Men”A. Order PoliceThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.1. Initially, purpose was to stay behind the fighting lines and maintain civil order in the occupied territories2. Early months of the Holocaust (firing squads)3. 500 men responsible for killing 38 thousand people and rounding up another 45 thousand to send to death campsB. Title of the book1. You might think that most of the people committing these murders were racists committed to the Nazi cause2. Men of the Order Police were around 38, learned values from a pre-Nazi society3. Social class composition: i. 65% working classii. Left-wing voters (Socialist, Communist, etc.)iii. From Hamburg (one of the least Nazified cities in Germany)iv. 25% Nazi party members, but only 6 Nazi party members prior to 1930-40’s (significant because Nazi Germany was a one party government)4. Comparisons to Milgram and Zimbardo experiments as an explanation for what
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