Kindle Notes & Highlights
how the Holocaust happened.
why?
maybe impossible, to know which factors are most causally determinant.
teleology,
why the Jews?
The first part of this chapter explores that subject.
Why did the Nazis target disabled people for mass murder?
Roma?
eugenics, racism, and attitudes toward social outsiders.
The second part of this chapter examines these
about time and place.
political, geopolitical, and military developments, including imperialism, World War I, and the Russian Revolution.
ANTISEMITISM—WHY THE JEWS?
hatred of Jews.
inner-group violence—Christians
is more frequent than violence across group lines.
“antisem...
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German jou...
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Europe
1800s—as
state,
The rise of Christianity added new fuel to anti-Jewish sentiments.
that Jews were traitors and conspirators, that they killed Jesus—remained
pogroms,
forced Jews to live in certain areas or ghettos;
wear identifying badges.
Antisemitism after the Emancipation of European Jews
European Jews ended up overrepresented in some occupations and underrepresented in others.
based on the biological “facts” of blood and race.
The Diversity of Jewish Life in Europe
Jews survived in Europe.
early 1900s
visible kinds of Jews.
traders and craftspeople.
Four Jewish Lives in Prewar Europe
memoir by Peter Gay
middle-class
father
mother
Committed at...
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fought in World War I
friends
not J...
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considered themselves thoroughly German.
before World War II began in 1939.
Jack Pomerantz,
small town
born
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during a ...
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eight children.
