Source C Flashcards
What is the context of the source?
Is the nazi policy of elimination of the Jews. In this source he relates hitlers prophecy from 1939 about the extermination of the Jewish race
What is the content?
The speech is a justification of actions that will be taken against the Jewish race and those already perpetrated.
Who is himmler in relation to the source?
According to himmler they are ‘secret, saboteurs, agitators and troublemakers’ Himller is both both architecture of the final solution and a visionary regarding the creation of the elite race
What had already begun in 1941
The killing of Jews had begun in 1941 but by 1943 it has become an obsession
What event paved the way for the path of murder?
The wamsee convention
What happened after the defeat at stalingrad
The defect turned the nazis racial conquest into a battle for what they perceive to be racial survival
What happened after the defeat at stalingrad
The defect turned the nazis racial conquest into a battle for what they perceive to be racial survival
What uprising occurred in 1943 and what does himmler imply?
The Warsaw ghetto happened in 1943. Himmler imples that the nazis have a moral right to exterminate the Jews because they are associated with external and internal enemies of the regime
What is the value of source C?
Value to an historian studying opposition to the nazis because It reveals the full nature of the nazis anti semitic which had become apparent
What became dogma?
It became dogma that the Jews were beind German’s problems and Jews were linked to bolveshism and suggested Jews were a threat to all Germans. It was an admission of complicity within germany
