I. Hitler’s Rise to
Power
A.
Beer Hall Putsch of 1923
Excerpt
from Mein Kampf
“On
occasion I was forced to recognize that one of the anti-Semitic papers, the
Deutsche Volksblatt, behaves more decently…I was not in agreement with the
sharp anti-Semitic tone, but from time to time I read arguments which gave me
some food for thought…My views with regard to anti-Semitism succumbed to the
passage of time, and his was my greatest TRANSFORMATION of all…
Gradually,
I began to hate them (the Jews).... For me this was the time of the greatest
SPIRITUAL upheaval I have ever had to go through, I had ceased to be a
weak-kneed cosmopolitan and become an anti-Semite.
B.
Chancellor
C.
Nazi Goals
1. Economic Recovery
2. Rearmament
3. Lebensraum
II.
Hitler’s Foreign Policy
A.
Anschluss
B.
Czechoslovakia
C.
Appeasement
D.
Poland
E.
War
1. Fall of France
2. Battle of Britain
3. Invasion of Soviet Union
4. U.S. Enters War
5. D-Day
III. Holocaust
A. Hitler’s View of Race
B. Phases in Evolution of Nazi Policy
C. Reinhard Heydrich and the “Final Solution”
D. Lessons?
IV.
WORLD WAR TWO IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
"Every
soldier who went to India got new ideas and learnt new things. We came back
with improved ideas about life. We, the ex-servicemen, gave this country the
freedom it's enjoying today. We gave this freedom and handed it over to our
country."
Nigerian Marshall Kebby
John Henry Smythe of Sierra Leone: a navigator for British
planes:
"You know they are talking about whether to execute you
tomorrow or not. Because you, as a black man, should not involve in white man's
war."
V. The
real product of World War Two:
Division
and divisiveness
(Ethnic Cleansing,
Ratlines, and Decolonization)
February,
1948, veterans of war in Ghana went to petition the governor: shot at.
"After the shooting, we said we should damage all British
things in the city. We got stones, sticks to break down shops. We broke them
all down. Those were wonderful days: February 1948, Saturday to Sunday."
Ratlines:
Adolf Eichmann--to
Argentina in 1950,
captured
1960, executed in 1962;
Klaus Barbie--fled to
Bolivia with help
from
the United States, captured in 1983, died in prison in 1991;
Aribert Heim--(Dr.
Death)disappeared in
1962,
most likely lived in Egypt under name Tarek
Farid Hussein, died in Egypt in 1992
Josef Mengele--fled to
Argentina in
1949,
died in Brazil in 1979.
About
14.5 million lost their homes as a result of the partition of India in
1947.
6
million Muslims and 5 million Sikhs and Hindus fled ethnic violence in India.
10-12
million ethnic Germans killed after WW Two:
35,000
Germans in Yugoslavia…32,000 flee
170,000
Danube Swabians interned from 1944 to 1948
Is
the dominance of western principles, hard work, rise of the middle class, mass
production of goods, a good thing?
The
connections between this war and industrialism, globalization, are clear: the
instruments of great progress in business in the West, record-keeping, order,
technological innovation, scientific advance, are all used to slaughter people.
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