2011-03-09

HR Lecture 8/14 - The Holocaust (Part 2/4)

Week 8 Part A Lecture Audio File

The following are the "oral report" subjects covered in today's lecture. Not all presenters were in attendance or forthcoming. Please note, these links are intended only as a starting point for you. I realize how hard it is to catch every word in class, and we frequently don't have the correct spelling in front of us; I've done my best to find them out for you so you can go and do your own homework. Don't rely simply on these links to give you full information (especially since most of them are just Wikipedia, which, while a great source, is not always accurate, unbiased, or comprehensive.)

All that being said, PLEASE DO share your findings when you go and do your homework! If you are writing ID's to study for the final exam by, I would love it if you'd share them, as I am sharing my notes with you! Comment here, or email me: mbarnes@smu.edu.
Thanks!


Hadamar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadamar
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/histories/documentary/hadamar/the_occurrence.html
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=hadamar+killing+center&aq=0&aqi=g1g-s1g3&aql=&oq=hadamar+&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.&fp=89e96c95c947f3f0


Schloss Hartheim Castle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartheim_Castle

Karl Brandt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Brandt_%28physician%29

http://dorman-data-digest.wikispaces.com/file/view
/Eastern_Europe_After_WWII_Iron_Curtain.jpg/30635599/Eastern_Europe_After_WWII_Iron_Curtain.jpg

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe/txu-oclc-247233313-europe_pol_2008.jpg


Stutthoff
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stutthof_concentration_camp

Katyn Forest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre

quizzliing??

Firebombing of Rotterdam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotterdam_Blitz

Le Paradis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Paradis_massacre
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/83/a2328383.shtml

Father Charles Coughlin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin

--?

Ponary Forest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponary_Forest

--?

Rumbula Forest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumbula_massacre
http://www.rumbula.org/

Babi Yar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar
victims not recognized as Jews; called Soviet citizens and martyrs

Siege of Leningrad

Reinhard Heydrich
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich

Wansee Conference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference

Chelmno
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelmno_extermination_camp
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/poland/lodzghetto.html

Christian Wirth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Wirth

Odilo Globocnik
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globocnik

Bełżec
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%C5%82%C5%BCec_extermination_camp

Franz Stangl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Stangl
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/franz_stangl.htm

http://www.codoh.com/newrevoices/nrtkreder.html

Sobibor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobibor


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PART 2



Treblinka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treblinka

Auschwitz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp

Majdanek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majdanek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B


Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w-P%C5%82asz%C3%B3w_concentration_camp
http://www.jewishkrakow.net/en/see/plaszow-forced-labour-camp/
http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/plaszow.html
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/463801/Plaszow
[Oskar Schindler - Schindler's List]
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136582

Amon Goeth

Gross Rosen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross-Rosen_concentration_camp

Lidice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice

http://jspivey.wikispaces.com/file/view/ethnic_groups_eastern_europe.jpg/85354399/ethnic_groups_eastern_europe.jpg
http://www.europeetravel.com/images/maps/europe-eastern-large.gif

Report: Von Braun

Wernhervon Braun
March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977

1930 joined Verein für Raumschiffahrt "spaceflight society" (which dissolved in '33)
worked on liquid fueled rockets (he was a rocket scientist)
joined Nazi party while working on his PhD

Developed the V2 - The rocket was the world's first long-range combat-ballistic missile.
Especially used on London, from '44
Development of his technology relied heavily on slave labor (Jewish exploitation)

came to America in '45 claimed to have been coerced into joining the Nazi's, became a citizen in '55

joined NASA
called the "Father of Modern Spaceflight"
worked on the Saturn V rocket which got America to the moon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
An interesting "Christian" evaluation of his merits:
http://ed5015.tripod.com/BVonBraun96.htm

2011-03-07

Film: Nazi Medicine - In The Shadow of the Reich

handicapped, incurables,a nd homosexuals, as well as jews and gypsies

genetic perfectability and german superiority

"eugenics - racial hygene"

Social Darwinism - the fittest would sruvive, the weakest would die away

Germans got their ideas for eugenic science from Americans (27 employed sterilization practices)
Americans admired the advancements of Germany in this field

Erbkranks - the genetically diseased
German-American connection in eugenics

1933 - Doctors & scientists were ready and willing to offer their expertise i
Germany - a "biocracy" a living body that had to be healed

Jews, Slavs, and Africans seen as inferior
Science, Law, and Politics worked against the Jews

Jewish doctors gradually barred from the medical system
all state institutions of public health

Basically what we have here is hundreds, thousands, millions of people in poverty.
And so we apply ruthless lifeboat ethics. The more people you throw off the lifeboat, the more space and comfort you have at the disposal of those left, and so you come up with a system of discriminating who to throw off the lifeboat and who to give the new space/resources to.


the involvement of doctors legitimized the implementation of racial theories


sterilization of the unfit was the first step on the road toward the Final Solution

hospitalization of undesirables was a major burden on the medical and social services

Oct. '39, backdated to Sept. 1 '39
law had to do with land allotment
Euthanasia began in fall of '39

Hadamar, harthein, sonnenshtein
6 euthanasia centers
"useless eaters"
death by starvation
lethal injection
reason for death given: "acute appendicitus' (but the appendix was removed years before!)

nurses helped apply lethal injection

gassing with carbon monoxide; calculated the amount of gas needed for extermination chambers
after jan '42 doctors formally mobilized into total racial purification
"eliminating the Jewish disease"j

Jews segregated into ghettos
(many died of starvation, especially in the warsaw ghettos. documented suicide and cannibalism still haunt us)

about 100,000 Jews died of disease long before deportation to death camps

Jewish doctors performed heroically

clandestine medical school and study of starvation

Jewish doctors sometimes asked to decide among those in hospitals who (10/100) would die

doctors on hand at the camps to decide who had the "privilege" of being put to work for the 3rd reich

people sent to become pharmaceutical experimentation subjects
subjects of human experiments

Dachau
experiments performed on camp inmates to help teh war effort

high altitute tests especially torturous
pressure chambers, testing the limits of the human body


to determine how long a downed pilot could survive in the frigid north atlantic prisoners were packed in ice


neuengamma
20 Jewish children, 5-12 yr/old lymph glands removed
april 20 1945 surviving children killed

experiements not based on solid scientific foundation and contributed little to nothing to scientific knowledge

'42-'44
1500 pairs of twins at aushwitz

Barracks 10
sterilization experiments
many women died or were forevermaimed


eye experiments
genetic blindness


trying to convert brown eyes to blue by injecting methyline blue

experiment subjects gassed after they were no longer useful
doctors assisted in every step, including gassing
doctors had to be present at every "execution"

close to 50% of physicians were members of the Nazi party

out of the Nuremberg trials
10 point limits for acceptable permissable research

1st principle: no adult human subject could be subjected to research unless he or she consents to being involved

morals used to enable certain acts
root of racism and an ideology that says some lives are valuable and others useless and costly

racial superiority over the dignity of the individual


http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_lifeboat_ethics_case_against_helping_poor.html

2011-03-06

Film: Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Wikipedia Information
IMDB
SMU Catalogue #: IDD 04445 // IVS 05745-05746
Netflix: DVD only


Notes:
how do you judge a judge?
whose house is it?
German servants
"not all Germans are monsters"


"Col. Lawson's favorite pictures"
how is it technically possible to kill millions of people

"We have to forget if we are to go on living"
--implications

Film: Schindler's List

Girl in the red coat
streets of tombstones
candles
teeth - people reduced to objectes

There is no set of rules you can live by

"If I follow these rules I will be safe."

Children
to hide in shit


whoever saves one life saves the world entire