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4 Cards in this Set
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INTRO
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- global conflict
- even greater extent than the first world war |
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Main argument
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Interpretation of WWII as an ideological war and a race war made it a Total War and present to what extent the moralities of the people fighting in this war changed and became much more extreme.
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1st Para: race war
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- germanize newly annexed territories
- RKFD: expell Jews and other ethnic minorities to enable Germans to settle in the reich - masses of people expelled 1941: 165000 jews were put into disease-ridden ghettos and work camps and 600 000 polish people were made slave labourers for the Reich - the Eskalation of the 'final solution' was necessitated by Germany's occupation of 6 million jews in the East - concentration camps set up: mass executions of Jews and other inferior races 700 000 killed in 1945 historical death of two thirds of the Jweish population Mark mazower: people started to like the idea of being superior because they profitted from opportunities for enrichment - Hitler Youth manipulates the young men and women, antionalised thinking, think they were superior to Jews - Soviet racism - killed hundreds of thousand Polish people 1940: Katyn Massacre, executed huge numbers of Polish people, bones found in 1943, for poles Katyn is a symbold of stalinism and the race war |
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2nd para: ideological conflict
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- although the race war was a common part of the ideologies in the second WW, the extreme difference between ideologies in the WWII made the WWII a total war
German National-Socialism- gain Lebensrau for the Germans, longterm planning of his Vernichtungskrieg USSR Communism - become world citizens USA Capitalism - dollar Imperialism, business world, everybody made their own profit and luck two big battles: Stalingrad and Kursk, 700 000 people died on each side only aim: fulfill their ideals no matter how many lives are lost during the conflict |
