V.Why
didn’t the Jews Resist?
A.
Given limited opportunity and no help, Jews did resist.Examples:
1.
Warsaw Ghetto uprising, April 1943
2.Uprisings
in Treblinka, August 1943
B.U.S.
and Britain don’t aid Jews: many die in holocaust because of immigration
policy
VI.Does
Rabid German Anti-semitism Explain?
A.Germany
was a relatively good place for Jews from 1870-1933.
1.Education:Jews
over-represented as students,faculty: 1% pop, 19% prof (1910)
a.1905-1931,
10 Jews out of 32 Germans get Nobel prize for science
2.Income:
prosperity indicated insofar as pay 4% of income tax, only 1% of pop
3.Exogamy:
in 1933, 44% marry non-Jews
4.Over-represented
in national legislature
B.
Didn’t Germans vote for Hitler?
1.1/3
did, 2/3 did not; Hitler was appointed chancellor; military coup gives
power
2.Many
voting for Hitler wanted strong leader to pull out of chaos of depression
C.
Kristallnacht (11/ 9/38): “Night of the broken glass” not supported by
many in public
1.SS,
SA, Hitler youth burn synagogues, destroy businesses, arrest and kill Jews
2.Because
divisive: Propaganda Ministry bans news on anti-Jewish measures
VII.Dynamics
of Power and Privilege, Colonial Legacy of Eugenics Explain Holocaust
A.Hitler
gained support from two pillars of power: industrial elite, military elite
1.
Delivered on promise to eliminate trade unions and socialists
B.Jews
were at wrong place at wrong time: most accessible target for eugenics
ideology
1.Ideology
legitimating European colonialism makes “race” a central focus
C.Holocaust
made possible by (1) highly centralized dictatorship, (2) cover of wartime
1.opponents
terrorized by what happened to the Jews
2.Secrecy
of wartime, belief that rumors of death camps were war propaganda
D.
Industrial world including U.S., not just Gemany, implicated in eugenics/anti-semitism