Mass Killings Flashcards

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A debate around the pictures of the Holocaust

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In 2001, in Paris, an exhibit displayed photos of Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Among them were four snapshots secretly taken in August 1944 by members of the SonderKommando
Stirred up a violent outburst

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Mass Destruction: Politics of visibility

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Soviet mass killings were successfully dissimulated to rest of the world in the early 30s
Nazi have poorer control of information

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A comparative framework for approaching nazism and stalism

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both are based on the concept of totalitarianism

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Anatomy of a genocide

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a mutltiethic town: Jews, poles and ukrnians lived there
From 1920 to the beginning of the Second World War, Buczaz was under polish jurisdiction
soviets occupied it when WWII began

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An Assault on Ukranian Peasantry

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Stalin’s first 5 year plan implemented between 1928 and 1932: a policy of collectivization and industrialization
People forcibly transported from Soviet Ukraine as kulaks

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The indignity of Starvation

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At least 2505 people were sentenced for cannibalism in the years 1932 and 1933 in Ukraine

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Stalin’s and Hitler’s Terrors

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