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The Holocaust History and Memory

January 28, 2014 : History

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS)

Prof. Georgi Verbeeck

The Holocaust in History and Memory

Holocaust or Shoah :6.000.000 Jews killed by Nazi Germany(genocide)How was it possible?

After 1945Why keeping

memories alive?

The “road to Auschwitz” :From ideology to

industrial mass murder 1. Ideology (Anti-Semitism) 2. Discrimination

and exclusion 3. Deportation to

the ghetto’s 4. “Euthanasia” program 5. War on the Eastern front 6. Industrial mass murder

1. Ideology : Anti-Semitism

2. Discrimination and exclusion

1 and 7 april, 1933 :Boycott and “Aryan paragraph”

2. Discrimination and exclusion

15 September 1935 :Racial laws

2. Discrimination and exclusion

9 November 1938 :“Reichskristallnacht”

3. Deportation to the ghetto’s

1 September 1939 :German invasion of Poland

4. From eugenics...

4. ... to “euthanasia”

5. Eastern front22 June 1941 : War against the Soviet Union

6. Industrial mass murderChełmno - Bełżec – Sobibór - Treblinka

6. Industrial mass murder Auschwitz

“Final solution” of the “Jewish problem”

Reign of destruction

27 January 1945Liberation of Auschwitz

1945 : End of the Nazi regime

Remembrance“The memory of Europe’s dead Jews has become the very definition and guarantee of the continent’s restored humanity.” (Tony Judt, The House of the Living Dead, in : Postwar, 2006)

Remembrance

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