Theme: History isn’t simple (As simple as it seems)
Q2 next Tuesday (chap. 6, analysis 2 and sources); also return journals
and proposals
Visit by survivor (syllabus Oct. 25) prob. Nov. 1
Recap: What do we have so far?
Three theories / models / aspects that contributed to (caused, enabled)
the Holocaust
A leader, focused and obsessed on certain goals, but chaotic in ability
to implement/realize
An elite competing among itself for access to the leader’s power, within
a chaotic structure
An uncritical, ungenerous populace, doesn’t see through pleasing images,
focused on narrow personal goals
Reichskristallnacht:
11 Nov. New York Times headline (source of the day)
1994 Calif. ballot prop. 187 (anti-illegal immigrant) editorial cartoon
12 Nov. 1938, Göring’s "Decree excluding Jews from German Economic
Life"
15 Sept .1935 "Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor"
EIEIO
Economics: Göring’s hideously brilliant turnaround—the Jews have
to pay
International: loud, sustained outcry, but no action
Elites: Goebbels vs. Göring vs. Himmler with competing interests
and goals
Ideology/Information: antisemitism/manipulation of media
Opposition (human agency): remained largely passive (no public resistance)
Directives "holding back" looting initiatives by local SA groups
Steps to World War
"Weekend Coups": League of Nations exit, 14 Oct. 1933; draft
1935, Rhineland 1936
1935/36 economic crisis (text chap. 5): 1936 "four year plan"
[also plan for "Situation A"]
maps: Austria (Mar. 1938), Sudetenland (Sept/Oct. 1938), Czechoslovakia
(Mar. 1939)
Hitler-Stalin (Ribbentrop-Molotov) pact, 23 Aug. 1939
role of Munich conf.
28 Apr. 1939 propaganda turnaround
Blitzkrieg
Sept 1939: Poland
Spring 1940: Denmark, Norway, Holland
May-June: Belgium, France (17 June capitulation; Petain/Vichy)
Aug. 1940-Feb. 1941: Blitz on Britain (stalemate: to Mediterranean)
April 1941: Greece, Yugoslavia; Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria allied