Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

 From what I have read, I believe that the expulsion or extermination
of the Jews of Germany, was among the earliest plans of Hitler and
the Nazis.
As soon as they conquered Poland and Czechoslovakia and realized
the number of Jewish people in these countries, they started building
extermination camps
using the most technically advanced methods of extermination and
disposal of the corpses.

Mimi

On Feb 5, 2013, at 2:03 AM, Christian Herrmann wrote:

> Good morning Mimi, Hardy and everybody else,
>
> yes, Hardy is right, about 50 percent of the German Jews survived
> because they left Germany early enough. From those who stayed only
> very few survived, either because they managed to stay alive in the
> camps or were hidden.
>
> Historians like Raul Hilberg doubt that there was a German plan
> from the very begining on. In his work "The Extermination of
> European Jews" he describes the dangerous dynamics and escalations
> within the huge number of people involved in persecution and the
> bureaucratic decisions to be made by them day by day. What started
> with rethorics ended with the assasination of millions. Hilberg
> identifies the knowledge that the "Jewish question" was of top
> priority for Hitler as the driving force behind those people's
> motivation. Every step of radicalization improved the chance to
> build a career under the conditions of dictatorship and war.
> Hilberg's work belonges to the very few books that helped me to
> understand why the holocaust happend and not only how.
>
> Those who don't like to read a comprehensive work in three volumes
> can listen to Raul Hilberg in Claude Lanzman's documentary Shoah.
>
> Christian

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