Hst386 Seminar 10 Facts/dates/factors

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H planning directive

(pl)

Back 1

18 Dec 40

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why develop into systematic extermination iv

(pl)

Back 2

1) Barbarossa had radicalised

2) development of war

3) situation in Polish ghettos

4) decision to deport AR-j

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Aims of Barb iv

(pl)

Back 3

1) Fulfil Lebenraum

2) 'Feed from the land they were invading'

3) annihilate Judeo-Bolshevism

4) radicalise elements incl Army- shift from conservative elites

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H- Vernichtungskrieg

(pl)

Back 4

17 March

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Plan for death of millions iii

(pl)

Back 5

1) Hunger Plan

2) Goering's Green Folder

3) GPO

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Hunger Plan ii

(pl)

Back 6

i) WO O, Backe

ii) Zuschuss, Überschuss

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GPO ii

(pl)

Back 7

1) Formed by Konrad Meyer from 24 Jun 41

2) 31 M Slavs to be expelled

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Formation of EzG

(pl)

Back 8

4 groups, 3000 men+ OrPo

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role of Army iii

(pl)

Back 9

i) Assist SS with logistics

ii) no punishment for 'id' killing

iii) 'Guidelines for the Conduct of Troops in Russia'

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nature of orders v

(pl)

Back 10

i) direct from H (intentionalist)

ii) but now- framework of J-B with specifics filled in

iii) opposing world views stressed

iv) vaguely defined

v) commander intuition needed

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methods of EzG ii

(ps)

Back 11

i)pogroms, 'self-cleansing' (worked with LAF eg)

ii) shootings

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initial radicalisation ii

(ps)

Back 12

i) 1 Jul 42- Himm/Heyd telex to Tilsit- approve of brutal measures

ii) Himm- encouraged radicalism when visiting

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Policy shift ii

(pa)

Back 13

i) initial- 'security policing'

ii) shift to cleansing

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JQ limitations viii

(pa)

Back 14

i) J fleeing

ii) Ro+Hu refugees

iii) demands for ForLab

iv)lack of food

v) areas too big to control

vi) loc pop- unwilling to carry out pogroms

vii) killing fatigue/logistics

viii) public nature of shooting

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later radicalisation v

(pa)

Back 15

i) EzG radicalisation- concrete threat

ii) SP approach increasingly uncertain

iii) more men Aug/Sept onwards

iv) SS brigades

v) 'climate of command' radicalisation from each other

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SS brigades arrive

(pa)

Back 16

July 41

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no age limit- Himm

(pa)

Back 17

27 Jul 41

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'women into marshes'

(pa)

Back 18

1 Aug 41

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Himm discusses non-shooting methods

(pa)

Back 19

15 Aug 41, Novinki

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Army participation iii

(pa)

Back 20

i) J seen as 'middlemen' of RA

ii) provided transport/ammu to SS

iii) frontline troops carry out massacres

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pressures to ghettoise iii

(pa)

Back 21

i) free up space in cities

ii) forced labour

iii) evolution in conjunction with MS- genesis of sorting

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Himm gets responsibility for Security Policing in East

(pa)

Back 22

16/17 July 41

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Reasons for Himm's power grabbing

Back 23

i) make areas judenrein

ii) to gain power over issues

iii) wanted USSR and P germanised

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early

(sf)

Back 24

Browning- euphoria in mid July

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test

(sf)

Back 25

Matthäus- says Vernichtungskrieg was test of army's willingness to kill

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later

(sf)

Back 26

Burrin- when H realised war would not be immediately won (Oct 41)

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latest

(sf)

Back 27

Gerlach- upon US entry (Dec 41)