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Last Days, Einsatzgruppen and Backing Hitler Discussion

Last Days, Einsatzgruppen and Backing Hitler Discussion. Goal: Participate during discussion using Socratic Seminar guidelines. Last Days. Sheet with questions Why stop the killing? How did Hungary change? What shows evidence to support the intentionalist or cumalative argument?

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Last Days, Einsatzgruppen and Backing Hitler Discussion

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  1. Last Days, Einsatzgruppen and Backing Hitler Discussion Goal: Participate during discussion using Socratic Seminar guidelines

  2. Last Days • Sheet with questions • Why stop the killing? • How did Hungary change? • What shows evidence to support the intentionalist or cumalative argument? • Role of WWII (next slide)

  3. May 1945 Germany surrenders 1944 start evacuating the camps Wansee Conference January 1942 Invades Russia June 1941 September 1939 Germany invades Poland

  4. WWII Questions Scenario: You are Hitler and by the Fall of 1944 you estimate that this war is not winnable. What do you do? Consider: Concentration camps are throughout Europe. Russia’s Red Army is advancing quickly into your territory. Would you: Release your prisoners in the camps? Kill the prisoners in the camps? Destroy the evidence? What kind of evidence would you destroy?

  5. Einsatzgruppen Reading • Under a million still left in camps • March 1943 Himmler orders cover-up • SS and the Police to assume control of the camps and move inmates to the next. Repeat process. • If enemy forces near complete evacuate. If surprise attack kill all prisoners and burn the bodies. • Do not allow prisoners to be taken into custody by the enemy. • January 1945 511, 000 males and 202, 000 females in concentration camps • Auschwitz evacuated January 1945 • January 17, 1945 last roll call at Auschwitz • Your thoughts on the death marches • Intentionalis or cumalitive?

  6. What is the role of a soldier? Generate a list 1. 2. 3. 4.

  7. Security Missions addressed the treatment of undesireables All units report to the Wehrmacht Attack and eliminate anyone connected with Bolshevism Wehrmacht (The German Army) Fighting WWII Argued not killing undesireables Nazi SS Fighting the race war against undesireables Attached to the Wehrmacht Both Supplied the federal German government Both possibly killed undesireables

  8. Distribute Responsibility Hitler German People SS Leaders ReinhardHydrich Companies that made items for the genocide The Allies for not helping sooner Nazi Party

  9. Use the Holocaust to support the intentionalistor cumulative argument.

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