Transcript 8. planned or improv

Was the final solution planned or was
it improvised?
Learning objectives:
•To build on what we already know about the build up to the Final
Solution
•To plan a Part A question about the Final solution
The Final Solution was
planned from the outset
The Final Solution was
improvised
How can we explain the development
of the extermination final solution?
• Experience of WWII – desensitised to violence, dehumanising, pressure on
territorial solution- Russia/Madagascar/hostages
• Long-term anti-Semitism/scape-goating – propaganda impact, der Jude,
dehumanising Jewish people
• Chaos of the Nazi state – Kristallnacht Goebbels, Hitler’s oral orders, Hitler
retreated to the Berghof, Wansee Conference called to response from the
Gauleiters pressure in Warthengau, radicalisation happened as lower
down Nazis are trying to advance their careers
• Didn’t know – focusing on surviving, rumours, Hamburg 1942 newspaper
headline ‘Exterminate all the Jews!’, senior Nazis said that Hitler knew and
directed it, Hitler never made a spoken or written record directing or
acknowledging
Use your books (if you need to) to explain why
each of these events are significant in terms of
the Holocaust
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1933 Dachau camp opens
1933 boycott of Jewish shops begins
1935 Nuremburg Race Laws
1938 Kristallnacht
1939 Invasion of Poland
1941 Himmler orders the ‘Final Solution of the Jewish
Question’
1942 Wannsee Conference
1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising
1945 Death marches begin as allies approach
1945-6 Nuremburg trials
1. Why did Hitler decide to set up
concentration camps?
2. Which 3 WW2 events do you think had the
biggest impact on how Jews were treated?
Explain the impact they had?
3. Have you changed your mind about whether
the Final solution was planned or
improvised?
Who was to blame for the final solution?
• Use your books and what we have learnt this lesson to fill in your worksheets
Who was to blame
Evidence to support this (think
about how the Final Solution came
about, why it came about, whether
it was planned or improvised)
Evidence to challenge this
How credible is this blame?
Hitler
Nazis
Germans
Allies
Senior Nazis
No-one – product of
long-held antiSemitism and WWII
Use pgs 347-354 in pink book
Anything to add?
The Final Solution was
planned from the outset
The Final Solution was
improvised
A question planning
• Systematic extermination emerged as the
Final Solution to the Jewish Question as result
of the chaotic nature of the Nazi state. How
far do you agree with this statement?
Let’s plan this together...
How would you have planned you
answer differently if this was the
question?
June 2010, part A question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL2311470B0DFA4D16&t=47
8&v=fAAHqbv8nIU
How chaotic and organised was the
state?
This is a photograph of the Berghof – the mountain retreat where Hitler
spent most of his time from 1938.
What does this suggest to you about Hitler’s dictatorship?
What do you think a chaotic plurocracy is?
Chaotic Plurocracy
Chaotic
• Plurocracy – many people and organisations
creating Hitler’s will. These often overlapped
with existing bodies.
• However – it is still a dictatorship – but
perhaps not the most efficient kind!
Read through all of the factors on your
handout.
• What interpretation do these sources have of
Hitler’s dictatorship?
• Was Hitler’s rule a chaotic plurocracy?
• Write in different colours
– Evidence to support this interpretation
– Evidence to challenge this interpretation
How chaotic and organised was the
state?
Homework, due Tuesday 5 May
June 2010, part A question:
June 2011, Part B question: