GER Exam 2 Questions With Complete Solutions

functionalism correct answer: genocide wasn't part of the original plan, the killings were functions of other processes (war, domestic security policy), killing motivated by a number of factors (ideological war against USSR, terror to control civilian population). Browning is a "moderate functionalist" strong intentionalism correct answer: traces the Holocaust back to Hitler's feelings in Mein Kampf and before, assigns responsibility to Hitler and sees subsequent events as determined by his personal wishes. Murder of all Jews planned from the beginning Moderate intentionalism correct answer: Jews were singled out because of Hitler's ideology or Nazi ideology in general, but the agenda was radicalized as Nazi's gained power and could decide to convert fantasies into policy and policies into action eugenics correct answer: tailoring populations to selectively breed in certain traits, while breed out other traits. Quantify the peplos's abilities, not a scientifically valid thing "Gnadentod" (mercy death) correct answer: a euphemism for euthanasia, implemented in akiton T4: killing people with mental, physical, and emotional disabilities freikorps correct answer: right-wing parliamentary organizations inside Germany, disgruntled veterans and others who wanted to keep fighting, support coup attempts, violence against other parliamentary groups and political and civilian groups differences in camps correct answer: extermination: strictly killing, labor: slave labor, concentration: some killing, the "original" camps concentration camps correct answer: for civilian prisoners (political, religious, homosexual), POW's, but especially Jews euthanasia correct answer: jews singled out in t4 program, t4 extended to occupy Poland, used crematoria order police correct answer: led by the SS, RP 101 was a part of the order police, mainly civilians served Aushwitz correct answer: Concentration: Aushwitz 1 Extermination: Aushwitz 2/Birkenau (largest extermination camp in death tolls) Labor: Aushwitz 3/ Monowitz akiton (operation) Reinhard correct answer: extermination camps with a euthanasia program staffed by physicians, given permission by Hitler to kill then build extermination camps to kill (eugenically undesirable) people upon arrival SS correct answer: led by H. Himmler, selective fighters "program" correct answer: violent riot aimed at the massacre or persecution of an ethnic or religious group, particularly one aimed at Jews.