... assassination as an attack to the Reich and the Fuhrer. The rioters consisted of members from the SA (Storm Troopers or Brown-shirts) and Hitler's Youth. These two forces were ordered to destroy as many Jewish-related buildings as possible by Reinhard Heydrich, a high-ranking German official. On the night of November 9th, 1938, the attacks started, and rioters destroyed a total ... of 267 synagogues from Germany, Austria, and Sudetenland combined. A majority of the holy buildings were left to burn all night because the firefighters were only ordered to stop fires that spread to non-Jewi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... June of 1941, Hitler issued first order to murder specified groups such as Jewish men, who served Soviet Union, armed forces or communist party. It was the first time he ordered to kill Jews; it was not his first order to murder national enemies, though. After the invasion on 22 June 1941, Einsatzgruppen began to exterminate Jewish men of any kind ... ...

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... any questions through the minimal documents and correspondences that exist. From what I can determine through the readings is that no one argues that it was Hitler who clearly and unambiguously ordered the Final Solution and the destruction of the Jews. More so, the decision was not made before the German invasion into Russia. Finally, the Final Solution was not a smooth, evolving ... ...

• Word Count: 1480
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... any questions through the minimal documents and correspondences that exist. From what I can determine through the readings is that no one argues that it was Hitler who clearly and unambiguously ordered the Final Solution and the destruction of the Jews. More so, the decision was not made before the German invasion into Russia. Finally, the Final Solution was not a smooth, evolving ... ...

• Word Count: 1480
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• Has Bibliography
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... to the slaughter" was resistance. Bettleheim gives a story of a woman determined to stand up for herself in any way possible. The commanding SS guard had discovered she was a dancer, and ordered her to dance in front of everyone. After her dance, she approached the guard, shot him dead, only to be put to death by other guards minutes later (264, 265 ... ...

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"If you want to know what Hitler was thinking, look at what Himmler was doing. The essence of the popular understanding of the Holocaust is that Hitler ordered the genocide and that his followers persecuted and killed the Jews because they hated them. Richard Breitman, author of the Architect of Genocide, disagrees with this functionalist view. he argues ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate