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 victory Outline of Current Lecture I Operation Barbarossa A June 22 1941 B Single largest organized assault on a front 1 17 000 trains 2 148 divisions 3 3 2 million soldiers 4 The world would hold its breath Hitler 5 Stalin was shocked C Two objectives 1 To seize territory recreate empire on a massive scale i Operation named after a Holy Roman Emperor ii Vast empire for German colonization iii Last effort of a land grab in European colonialism 2 Ideological crusade i Total annihilation of Judeal Bolshevism ii 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 death D General Plan East 1 One day before Barbarossa Heinreich Himmler had his people start making a plan for the demographics of the territory they were about to take 2 Drawn up by a professor 3 July 1942 4 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 point II Browning Ordinary Men A Order Police These 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 territories 2 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 camps B Title of the book 1 You might think that most of the people committing these murders were racists committed to the Nazi cause 2 Men of the Order Police were around 38 learned values from a pre Nazi society 3 Social class composition i 65 working class ii 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 happened
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