RELI 160D2 1st Edition Lecture 5 Outline of Last Lecture I. ConservativesII. Article notesIII. VocabularyIV. Elizabeth Cougar RossA. Chicago hospitalB. Stages of patientsOutline of Current Lecture I. GenocideII. HitlerA. AryanizeIII. AryansIV. WWIICurrent Lecture14 million killed innocent civilians. Genocide - didn’t even have this term until the Holocaust. It means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, partly or completely, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, such as:• killing members of the group• causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group• deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part• imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group• forcefully transferring children of the group to another groupAdolf Hitler and the nazis came to power legally but without majority support. Racism and anti-semitism were central to the party’s ideology. They’re all “Aryan”, native german, speaks german. His goal was to start WWII by leaving the slavs to starve out so he can colonize the place with Aryans.• Goal is to create living space and racial purity in his own state. Segregation; encourage Jews toemigrate. State sponsored terror: KZ camps.• By means of: mobilization of military & economy. “Aryanize” Jewish property.Legalization begins right away• Segregation• Loss of legal rights and citizenship• Expropriation/aryanization• Public humiliation and defamationAryans• “The menace of the subhuman” ...(people who are socially deviant, & represent an economic burden on the state)• Anyone who can’t hold down a job. Subhumans include the Slavs, homosexuals, mentally/physically disabled, political opponents, asocials, gypsies, and jews.Hitler unleashing genocide - WWII• Invades Poland, provoking allies of poland into war, bringing the rest of Europe into it. • Some of those “deficient” Aryans “aren’t contributing to society” are put into the T4 Program.Murder, and start with disabled children. It’s murderous persecution of “opponents of the regime”.• 1939-1944 - ghettoization begins: death by starvation & disease• 1941-1943 - Mass Murder on the Eastern Front• 1942-1945 - Extermination Camps for “the Final
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