Genocide

The 10 Stages of genocide

• Classification - identifying two groups (us vs them)

• Symbolization- show that this group is different - hitler forced jews to wear the star of david

• Discrimination - denying rights - the romas(gypsies) were denied access into the olympics per hitler

• Dehumanization- “they” are not human nor to be treated like one; they are undeserving of human rights; the nazis reffered to jews as vermin

• organization - planned regims of hatred; mobilizing involvement-other people are participating; gustapo & ss

• Polarization- we are known enemies; propoganda spreads and violence is incited to make hate known; nazi Der Sturmer paper

• preparation- leading up to extermination plans of genocide are carried out; concentration camps, loading people onto trains, the nazi programs; the final solution

• persecution- victims are identified; violence and harsh treatment before extermination; ghetttos and robberies

• extermination - systematic mass murdering with intention; organized killing

• Denial - denying the existence of any crime; what we did wasnt wrong

C S D D O P P P E D

Nazi Germany

What was the treaty of versailles?

• Ending ww1 the US, Britan and France decide what to do about germany; this agreement is known as The Treaty of Versailles

• Versailles concluded that germany would loose 13% of its territory(-10% population) + (-48% resources)

• Germany was banned from forming a military (disarmed+ weak + unemployed)

• War guilt clause “ This is Germanys fault!”

• Germany must pay reparations

Why did the Treaty of Versailles promote fascist ideals in germany?

• Germany is deeply angered at the fact they were excluded from Versailles

• Germany is unstable and at a loss of resources

• Germany feels “embarresed” by their lack of arms

• The germans lost their sense of national pride and expierienced great guilt

• Germany enetered an economic crisis due to reperations and lack of employment

- Because of this instability Germans are attracted to Hitlers ideas; germany is ready to accept an easy solution; hitler offers “is this what you really want”; as a dictator hitler has the power to make total change

The enabling act of 1933

• The enabling act gave hitler the ability to make decisions without conferring with others (lack of checks and balance) all power is now under hitler

Anti Seminism 3 ways of showing

1. Religous teachings- jews are responsible for the death of christ; jews proclaimed as evil

2. Political efforts - isolation, oppresion, injury

3. Stereotyping- propoganda

Aryan: “pure” german race pertaining to fair skin, blonde hair and light eyes; believed to be supierior

The Nuremberg Laws: Legal discrimination against jews; banned innterracial marriage amongst jews; jews reffered to as mixed breed through pedigree charts; aryan certificates were carried to prove your identity as a non jew

Nazi Programs

• Part of the planning of the holocaust

• Programs such as Autoban provided germans with employment; others such as the hitler youth and strenghth through joy programs reinstated national pride and relieved war guilt

Arbeit Macht Frei: worksets you free (work untill you die)

Fascism

The 10 Fascist Ideas

• The mythic past- we fascist descend from a glorious, patriarchy past; they unpure threaten that legacy

• Propaganda- corrupt/opposite meanings (taking democratic ideals and making them look corrupt ex voting)

• Anti- Intellectual- anti univerity/liberal ideas; value is placed on how well you can uphold fascist ideals; new ideas threaten fascism

• Unreality- pupiteered ideas; facts debased; reasoning is impossible

• Hierarchy- natural divisions; dna is used to argue superiority vs inferiority

• Victimhood - gains for minorities is a loss for us

• Law and Order - they are criminals

• sexual anxiety - we suppourt the family they threaten to pullute it

• Sodom+Gomoroha- we are from the rural backbone of the nation they are from cities

• Arbeit Mach Frei- they are lazy and undserving we are hard working

Fascism focuses on RACE and NATION over the individual

Fascist Nation

• one race

• autocratic goverment run by a dictator

• total economic and social control

• forced suppression

A fascist goverment takes democratic ideals and flips them

The Russian Revolution

• Who: Russian citizens, Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin

• What: Overthrow of the Russian monarchy, establishment of a communist government

• Where: Russia

• When: 1917-1923

• Why: Economic hardship, social inequality, dissatisfaction with the Tsarist regime

Before the Revolution

• unlimited power marked by the czarist regime of terror and political inequality

• slow to industrialize behind the western world

• slight taste of democracy but still no say

The russo-japanese war was a dispute over the land of manchuria, Russias loss directly led to the events of Bloody Sunday, following BS a duma was created (provisional gov)

Lenin

• Red Bolshevik party led by vladmir lenin takes control after dropping out of the war

• lenin focuses on taking it slow and introduces the NEP and implements a mix of capitalsim and socialism

• Lenins goal was socialism over communism (state capitalism before full socialism)

Stalin

• following lenins death stalin takes control and implements a totalitarian state

• Takes controll over all sectors of society; no more privacy or freedom of expression

• The Great Purge refers to stalins violent “cleansing” of russia

The russian revolution was an economic revolution