The Holocaust Genocide: Why does society wipe out an entire people?

? The Nazi Racial Order Volksgemeinschaft (People's Community) want the world clean Concentration camps Radicalization of Nazi anti-Semitic policies 1933 boycotts of Jews in Germany 1935 Nuremberg racial laws (The Jews cant get jobs in public positions, etc.) 1938 Night of the Broken Glass state sanctioned violence 1939 euthanasia program: There is now a policy of death to get rid of the outsiders; this eventual gets overturned due The "Final Solution" World War II context Lebensraum: They will take over the lower classes as slaves, concurring land in the East

Invasion of Poland: September 1, 1939: The Germans annex half of the Polish state, call it the General Government brought in the wake of this craziness, and they push all the Jew in there. Nazi policies Ghettos: Warsaw and Lodz ghettos (both in Poland): Half a million people tucked in an area the size of aggievill; just a few square miles Brutality of Eastern campaign Invasion of the Soviet Union: June 22, 1941: The Commissar Order gives the Nazis the order to shoot all enemies of the state on cite. "war of annihilation": They have to figure out organized mass killings so they can clear out more Jews quicker; they experiment with mobile gas trucks, etc. Mobile Killing Units Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units): caused 1/6 of the killings that took place. SS and Security Service (SD) Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich: Helped do a lot of the experimenting with killing. Executions Gassing vans Industrialized Killing Wannsee Conference: January 1942: They now industrialize the killing via the concentration camps and set up plans for deportations: everywhere the Germans occupy must send their Jews to central Poland in Extermination camps like the one in Auschwitz-Birkenau. These are mostly in the General government. Zyklon-B: a nastier form of poison than carbon monoxide The Holocaust and Western Civilization "This efficiency took a civilization to carry out." --Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of European Jews (1961) This came out of strains of racism via new imperialism and throughout the middle ages. WWI was a watershed that filled up and spilled out leading up to and resulting in WWII.